Senior Cloud Engineer: AI-Driven Infra & Platform

Vodafone; Newbury; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Vodafone seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer to design, build and operate cloud infrastructure powering its digital capabilities. You’ll treat infrastructure as software, delivering code-driven, automated environments and platforms that scale securely for engineering teams in a hybrid setup.

Lead with deep expertise in IaC, CI/CD, observability and security. Collaborate with architects and developers to drive automation, reliability and cost efficiency across Vodafone’s cloud ecosystem.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform or equivalent technologies.
• Experienced in operating services on at least one major cloud platform.
• Skilled in containers, orchestration technologies and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, identity and access management principles.
• Experienced in designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.
• Knowledgeable in observability, monitoring, alerting and operational tooling.
• Experienced in supporting production environments and managing operational incidents.
• Strong scripting and automation capabilities.
• Understanding of resilience, distributed systems and platform reliability engineering practices.
• Familiar with security, compliance and access control requirements within cloud environments.
• Knowledge of AI-assisted software delivery approaches and their supporting infrastructure capabilities.
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate cloud infrastructure and platform services using infrastructure-as-code and automation.
• Deliver secure, scalable and operationally ready cloud environments for engineering teams.
• Implement and maintain infrastructure-as-code modules, automated provisioning processes and deployment pipelines.
• Build observability, monitoring, alerting and operational controls into infrastructure solutions from the outset.
• Support production environments through incident investigation, troubleshooting and root‑cause resolution.
• Apply security, identity, compliance and governance controls across all infrastructure components.
• Support AI-native engineering practices through infrastructure automation and platform enablement.
• Improve reliability, consistency and maintainability through reusable engineering patterns and automation.
• Contribute to cloud cost optimisation initiatives through right‑sizing, automation and platform enhancements.
• Identify technical risks and elevate architectural concerns where appropriate.
• Collaborate with and mentor engineers through technical reviews, knowledge sharing and engineering best practices.

Skills

Cloud engineering

IaC (Terraform)

CI/CD pipelines

Observability tooling

Security & IAM

Scripting/Automation

Education

Degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Vodafone seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer to design, build and operate cloud infrastructure powering its digital capabilities. You’ll treat infrastructure as software, delivering code-driven, automated environments and platforms that scale securely for engineering teams in a hybrid setup.

Lead with deep expertise in IaC, CI/CD, observability and security. Collaborate with architects and developers to drive automation, reliability and cost efficiency across Vodafone’s cloud ecosystem.