Cloud Operations Team Lead

Big Red Recruitment Midlands Limited; England; Hybrid; GBP 68,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment company is seeking a Cloud Operations Lead to oversee cloud operations in Milton Keynes. You will lead a team of engineers, drive automation, and manage cloud infrastructure projects. Candidates should have over 3 years of AWS experience and strong knowledge of IaC tools like Terraform and Ansible. The role offers a salary up to £80,000 and benefits including performance bonuses and health care.

Benefits

Performance related bonus scheme

25 days annual leave

Wellbeing days

Company pension

Private health care

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on AWS experience.
• Strong knowledge of IaC tools like Terraform and Ansible.
• Proven experience in managing cloud infrastructure projects.

Responsibilities

• Oversee cloud operations including monitoring and incident response.
• Lead project planning and manage cloud governance.
• Provide mentorship for cloud engineers.

Skills

AWS experience

IaC and configuration management (Terraform & Ansible)

Leading cross-functional teams

Cloud monitoring and performance tuning

CI/CD tools experience

Job description

Overview

Are you looking for your next challenge?

Do you want the opportunity to lead the cloud operations for globally expanding market leader?

Our client is a leading supplier of software into the hospitality and higher education industry who are currently growing at circa 15% per annum.

This role will be leading their successful cloud operations team, leading the team of engineers, driving automation and supporting the development teams with robust CI/CD infrastructure in a hands-on leadership role.

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day cloud operations, including monitoring, incident response and trouble shooting.
• Leading and managing short and long term project planning.
• Developing and implementing cloud governance, security and compliance.
• Leading automation and IaC improvements.
• Providing mentorship and professional development for the team of cloud engineers.

Qualifications / Experience

• 3+ years of hands-on AWS experience
• Strong knowledge of IaC and configuration management tools (Terraform & Ansible or similar)
• Proven experience leading cross-functional teams and managing cloud infrastructure projects
• Experience in cloud monitoring, alerting, and performance tuning
• Experience with CI/CD tools and supporting development workflows

Salary & Location

SALARY - UP TO £80,000

LOCATION - MILTON KEYNES (2 Days per month)

Benefits

• Performance related bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
• 2 wellbeing days per year
• Christmas shut-down period
• Company pension, private health care, life assurance + additional flexible benefits

We are an equal opportunity recruitment company. This means we welcome applications from all suitably qualified people regardless of race, sex, disability, religion, sexual orientation or age.

We are particularly invested in Neurodiversity inclusion and offer reasonable adjustments in the interview process. Reasonable adjustments are changes that we can make in the interview process if your disability puts you at a disadvantage compared with others who are not disabled. If you would benefit from a reasonable adjustment in your interview process, please call or email one of our recruiters.