Senior Cloud Engineer

Method Resourcing; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A regulated financial services organization in London is looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer to oversee a major migration to Azure. The role involves designing and enhancing a cloud platform focused on performance and availability. Strong experience with Azure, Kubernetes, and Terraform is essential. The position requires 2-3 days weekly onsite in Central London, emphasizing collaboration across teams and improving developer workflows through automation. Competitive candidates should possess a strong problem-solving mindset and a development background.

Qualifications

• Experience across any major cloud provider is acceptable, with Azure preferred.
• Strong problem-solving and delivery mindset needed.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent) is essential.
• Experience in scripting or programming with Python or PowerShell required.
• Kubernetes experience needed for upgrades, troubleshooting, and workload patterns.
• Development background is preferred.
• Ability to improve workflows through automation and documentation is important.

Responsibilities

• Design, run, and enhance a secure and dependable cloud platform.
• Support large-scale migration into Azure.
• Deliver lift-and-shift for Windows VMs and containerisation into AKS.
• Focus on improving observability, resilience, and disaster recovery.
• Work closely with developers to design reliable cloud-native solutions.

Skills

Cloud provider experience (Azure preferred)

Problem-solving mindset

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform

Scripting (Python, PowerShell)

Kubernetes experience

Development background

Clear communication skills

Job description

Method Resourcing are supporting a high-quality, regulated financial services organisation in the hire of a Senior Cloud Engineer to support a major migration and modernisation programme.

The role:

The primary purpose of this role is to design, run, and continually enhance a cloud platform that is secure, dependable, and straightforward for teams to use. This involves taking full responsibility for the health, performance, and ongoing development of our Azure and Kubernetes (AKS) environment, which supports hundreds of applications across development, UAT, and production. The goal is to ensure the platform consistently meets expectations around availability, performance, cost efficiency, and resilience.

What you’ll be working on:

• Supporting a large-scale migration from on‑premise data centres into Azure.
• Delivering a blend of lift‑and‑shift for Windows‑based virtual machines and containerisation into AKS.
• Post‑migration work focused on improving observability, resilience, disaster recovery, and platform scalability.
• Working closely with developers to design and operate reliable, cloud‑native solutions.

What we’re looking for:

• Experience across any major cloud provider acceptable (Azure preferred but not exclusive).
• Strong problem‑solving and delivery mindset.
• Strong IaC capability (Terraform or equivalent).
• Strong scripting or programming capability (Python, PowerShell, or similar).
• Infrastructure automation and IaC experience (Terraform highly relevant).
• Kubernetes experience essential across cloud: upgrades, troubleshooting, workload patterns etc (ideally Azure).
• Development background preferred.
• Ability to improve developer workflows via automation, templates, and documentation.
• Clear communication and collaboration across platform, security, and software teams.

Working pattern:

This role requires 2/3 days per week into Central London. Please ensure you have researched travel costs before applying.

NO SPONSORSHIP

If this sounds of interest, then please apply, and reach out to [e-mail] for more information.