Cloud Platform Lead: IaC, GitOps & AWS Expert

Abcam; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Abcam, a Danaher operating company, seeks a Cloud Platform Lead to accelerate enterprise cloud delivery from Cambridge. You will collaborate across Enterprise Architecture, Cyber Security, Product Engineering, and SRE to deliver automated, scalable cloud solutions.

This hybrid role supports Abcam Global Operations and reports to the Global Reliability Manager. Key responsibilities include advancing IaC adoption, building reusable deployment modules, and enforcing infrastructure quality

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Cloud, Infrastructure, or Platform Engineering.
• 2+ years leading engineering teams or providing technical leadership.
• Strong experience designing, building, and operating AWS platforms in enterprise environments.
• AWS and/or Kubernetes certifications.

Responsibilities

• Deliver enhancements across networking, identity, connectivity, compute, storage and container platforms.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code 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 expertise

Kubernetes

Automation / IaC

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Kubernetes

Job description

Abcam, a Danaher operating company, seeks a Cloud Platform Lead to accelerate enterprise cloud delivery from Cambridge. You will collaborate across Enterprise Architecture, Cyber Security, Product Engineering, and SRE to deliver automated, scalable cloud solutions.

This hybrid role supports Abcam Global Operations and reports to the Global Reliability Manager. Key responsibilities include advancing IaC adoption, building reusable deployment modules, and enforcing infrastructure quality