Senior Cloud Engineer

Shaw Daniels Solutions; Malvern; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Shaw Daniels Solutions is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to design, deliver and enable secure, scalable cloud capabilities for defence projects in the UK. You will provide technical leadership across programmes and bids, collaborating with project managers, customers and engineering teams to solve complex challenges.

The role requires hands-on AWS experience, Terraform for IaC, and a track record of delivering cloud solutions from conception to completion in Agile environments.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to lead technical delivery teams and mentor engineers.
• Strong experience in cloud engineering across projects, programmes and bids.
• Effective communication with senior stakeholders and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery teams with direction, guidance and mentoring for junior engineers.
• Provide technical leadership across cloud projects, programmes and bid activities.
• Design and deliver secure, scalable cloud solutions for customers.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Leadership

Agile delivery

Stakeholder communication

Problem solving

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Job description

As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you’ll play a key role in designing, delivering and enabling secure, scalable and mission-critical cloud capabilities.

Working at the forefront of cloud engineering, you’ll provide technical leadership across projects, programmes and bids, collaborating with project managers, customers and highly skilled engineering teams.

This is an opportunity to work on complex and technically challenging programmes where your expertise will directly contribute to innovative solutions supporting critical UK defence capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery teams, providing direction, guidance and mentoring to junior and developing engineers.
• Provide technical leadership across cloud engineering projects, programmes and bid activities.
• Design and deliver secure, scalable cloud solutions for new and existing customers.
• Support the development and growth of cloud engineering capability across the organisation.
• Contribute to technical resourcing and capability decisions.
• Produce and maintain design certifications, technical delivery plans and high-level and detailed technical documentation.
• Develop testing strategies and schedules to support successful technical delivery.
• Translate customer and business requirements into practical, innovative cloud solutions.
• Stay informed about emerging cloud technologies and apply relevant developments to future solutions.
• Work closely with project managers, technical teams and senior stakeholders to ensure successful end-to-end delivery.
• Solve complex engineering and technical challenges, developing creative and pragmatic solutions to customer problems.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud services.
• Proven experience developing and managing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
• Experience leading, mentoring or managing technical delivery teams.
• The ability to communicate effectively with senior stakeholders and explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Experience working within Agile delivery environments.
• A proven track record of delivering cloud engineering projects from conception through to successful completion.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to develop practical solutions to complex technical challenges.