Senior Cloud Engineer - AWS & Terraform Scale-Up Lead

Cloudscaler; Greater London; On-site; GBP 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Security clearance bonus

Share options

25 days' annual leave

Training budget

Health & wellbeing support

Pension

Job summary

Cloudscaler is seeking a Principal Cloud Engineer (AWS) in London to lead enterprise cloud platforms and secure, scalable infrastructure. The role will require frequent travel to customer sites in London, with onsite work up to several days per week depending on client needs.

You will design production-ready foundations, automate platforms with Terraform, and mentor engineers while collaborating across teams to deliver end-to-end cloud transformations. Strong AWS expertise is highly beneficial.

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of platform and infrastructure engineering concepts and why they matter.
• Experience with multi-account, multi-tenant or landing zone patterns in any cloud is a strong signal.
• Strong hands-on Terraform and automation skills with opinions on IaC structure and modularisation.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead technical strategy across enterprise-scale cloud platforms, focusing on IaC modularisation.
• Design and build secure, production-ready platform and infrastructure foundations.
• Automate complex platforms with Terraform.
• Package services into AMIs, Docker or Serverless.
• Work directly with customers, driving cloud transformations end to end.
• Apply site reliability best practices and help shape mature security models.
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar across cross-functional teams.

Skills

AWS expertise

Terraform automation

Leadership

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud architecture

Tools

Terraform

Docker

AWS

Serverless

Job description

Cloudscaler is seeking a Principal Cloud Engineer (AWS) in London to lead enterprise cloud platforms and secure, scalable infrastructure. The role will require frequent travel to customer sites in London, with onsite work up to several days per week depending on client needs.

You will design production-ready foundations, automate platforms with Terraform, and mentor engineers while collaborating across teams to deliver end-to-end cloud transformations. Strong AWS expertise is highly beneficial.