Cloud Platform Engineer - AWS/Azure, FinOps & Automation

Cabinet Office; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Cabinet Office seeks a DevOps Engineer to join the Platform Engineering team within the Digital directorate. You will develop, deploy and operate organisational platforms, primarily on Azure, while leveraging GitHub and DevOps tooling to drive automation and efficiency.

You will collaborate with product managers and architects, contribute to FinOps, and help optimise cloud workloads in an Agile environment, supporting resilience and cost effectiveness across services.

Responsibilities

• Develop, deploy, document and maintain digital platforms, mainly Azure, GitHub, and DevOps tooling.
• Monitor, manage and optimise platform infrastructure for stability, scalability, and performance.
• Lead the automation of deployment, infrastructure provisioning, and operational processes.
• Support FinOps by analysing costs and recommending optimisation strategies.
• Collaborate with product managers and architects to define platform strategies and priorities.

Skills

Automation

Cloud engineering

AWS

Azure

FinOps

Agile

Mentorship

Tools

Terraform

Azure DevOps

GitHub

Job description

Cabinet Office seeks a DevOps Engineer to join the Platform Engineering team within the Digital directorate. You will develop, deploy and operate organisational platforms, primarily on Azure, while leveraging GitHub and DevOps tooling to drive automation and efficiency.

You will collaborate with product managers and architects, contribute to FinOps, and help optimise cloud workloads in an Agile environment, supporting resilience and cost effectiveness across services.