Cloud Platform Lead — AWS, GitOps, Hybrid

Radiometer; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Hybrid work arrangement

Professional development

Job summary

Abcam, a Danaher operating company, is seeking a Cloud Platform Lead to drive the enterprise cloud strategy from Cambridge in a hybrid role. You will partner with Enterprise Architecture, Cyber Security, Product Engineering and SRE to deliver scalable, secure cloud capabilities using AWS as the primary provider, with Azure support.

You will lead IaC adoption (Terraform, CloudFormation), push GitOps, and build deployment pipelines while ensuring repeatable, secure infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience in Cloud, Infrastructure, or Platform Engineering.
• 2+ years' experience leading engineering teams or providing technical leadership.
• Strong experience designing, building, and operating AWS platforms in enterprise environments with cloud networking, connectivity, and identity management.

Responsibilities

• Deliver enhancements across networking, identity, connectivity, compute, storage, and container platforms.
• Implement governance, resilience, recoverability, and operational readiness requirements.
• Lead Infrastructure as Code adoption using Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Drive GitOps and automation-first practices while reducing manual processes.
• Ensure infrastructure provisioning is automated, repeatable, version-controlled, and secure.
• Build and maintain reusable modules, templates, and deployment pipelines.
• Establish engineering quality standards for infrastructure code.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Leadership

AWS platform

Kubernetes

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Job description

Abcam, a Danaher operating company, is seeking a Cloud Platform Lead to drive the enterprise cloud strategy from Cambridge in a hybrid role. You will partner with Enterprise Architecture, Cyber Security, Product Engineering and SRE to deliver scalable, secure cloud capabilities using AWS as the primary provider, with Azure support.

You will lead IaC adoption (Terraform, CloudFormation), push GitOps, and build deployment pipelines while ensuring repeatable, secure infrastructure.