Senior Cloud Engineer: AWS, SRE & Security

Pacific Asset Management, LLC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Healthcare coverage for employee

Group life insurance

Pension/retirement benefits

On-site/team-building events

Job summary

Pacific Life Re is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to maintain, optimise, and evolve AWS workloads across multiple regions. The role focuses on security, reliability, governance, and lifecycle management, operating within enterprise standards and cloud shared services.

You will engage in platform provisioning, improve tooling, and support CI/CD practices while collaborating with risk, architecture, and engineering teams to raise cloud maturity across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing, building, and operating distributed AWS environments.
• Hands-on experience with cloud security, compliance, and governance in enterprise environments.
• Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and automation tooling.
• Hands-on expertise in SRE and operational excellence, including monitoring and incident response.
• Proven ability to lead technical initiatives end-to-end.
• Experience operating Kubernetes-based workloads in AWS.

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver complex cloud and platform initiatives from concept to production.
• Operate and evolve a global AWS environment across regions during local business hours with on-call rotation.
• Support full lifecycle of application workloads: maintenance, patches, backups, upgrades, decommissioning.
• Drive reliability improvements, observability, incident response, and root-cause analysis.
• Ensure workloads comply with security, governance and enterprise standards.
• Collaborate with teams to guide cloud architecture decisions and improve developer experience.

Skills

AWS architecture

SRE practices

Observability

Security & governance

Kubernetes (AWS)

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Automation tooling

Job description

Pacific Life Re is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to maintain, optimise, and evolve AWS workloads across multiple regions. The role focuses on security, reliability, governance, and lifecycle management, operating within enterprise standards and cloud shared services.

You will engage in platform provisioning, improve tooling, and support CI/CD practices while collaborating with risk, architecture, and engineering teams to raise cloud maturity across the organisation.