Senior Cloud Engineer (GCP)

CreateFuture; Greater London, Leeds, Manchester, City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A cloud engineering company in Greater London is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to help define and shape their cloud capabilities. The role involves consulting with clients, implementing Infrastructure as Code, and working with AWS, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines. The position offers 35 days of flexible holiday and a supportive culture. Ideal candidates should have substantial AWS experience and be committed to best engineering practices. This hybrid role requires occasional travel to client sites and company offices.

Benefits

35 days holiday

Enhanced parental leave

Pension matched up to 5%

Qualifications

• Experience with AWS and other cloud platforms.
• Ability to provide technical guidance to clients.
• Promote clean code and engineering best practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide advice and guidance on cloud technologies.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code.
• Manage configuration and automate build pipelines.
• Create user-friendly documentation of implementations.
• Assist in building standard solutions for clients.

Skills

Consulting clients

AWS

Infrastructure as Code

Agile methodologies

Terraform

Security by design

Configuration management

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Job description

You will be helping define and shape the Cloud Engineering capability of CreateFuture. As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you’re someone who is confident in consulting and helping clients find the best possible solution - with that “right tool for the job” mindset.

We work with cloud native platforms build out through to large-scale cloud migrations. We work across all 3 cloud service providers: AWS, Azure and GCP. Working by delivering these clients platforms via agile teams or working solo depending on the scale of the client.

We strive to create the best product possible with everyone's effort, and you'll be an integral part of that mission. Your role in the team is highly valued, and you'll be a key player in ensuring the success of our projects.

Our Engineering team at CreateFuture drive forward technology strategies, they also contribute to planning sessions and help to map out delivery roadmaps.

Our tech:

• Terraform, CDK or CloudFormation
• Ansible, Chef or Puppet
• Jenkins, GITHUB Actions or Gitlab Pipeline
• AWS

What you'll be doing:

• Providing advice and guidance to your team and clients on Cloud technologies
• Implementing Infrastructure as Code
• Providing configuration management
• Build pipelines including blue/green deployments and working with different pipeline tools and automating where required
• Implementing security by design when coding via IAC and building a pipeline
• Advising different ways to integrate into other systems whether on-premises or to other cloud platforms
• Creating documentation that allows the clients to understand what has been implemented
• Assisting the Cloud team in building standard solutions we can offer our clients

We’d love to talk to you if:

• You have previously helped external clients / internal teams reach their technical goals
• You are experienced when it comes to developing platforms using AWS
• You actively promote engineering best practices, clean code and unit testing
• Facilitate and encourage knowledge sharing within your team and across the wider Engineering department

What we’ll offer you:

At CreateFuture, we challenge ourselves to go beyond the obvious and we care deeply about our craft and customers. With us, you’ll have ambitious projects to sink your teeth into and plenty of opportunities to learn and grow. You’ll be part of our safe, supportive and friendly culture - that looks after you - and join our team of genuinely great people.

Our benefits include:

• Total 35 days holiday (we have flexible bank holidays)
• Enhanced parental and adoption leave
• Pension - matched up to 5%

As this is a hybrid role, we’re looking for people within a commuting distance of our hub locations (Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester or London) and who are flexible to travel to client sites and CreateFuture regional offices. We are very flexible and trust you to manage your own schedule to balance face-to-face time with clients, colleagues and working from home.

We create and reinforce a culture that rewards employees’ impact, not just activity. We trust our employees to work autonomously and promote ownership across all levels.

Candidates for this role must be eligible to live and work in the UK.