Senior Cloud Engineer (LiverpoolHybrid)

Believe; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading music technology firm in Liverpool is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to enhance their AWS cloud infrastructure. The role involves improving security, implementing cost optimisation strategies, and supporting engineering teams. Ideal candidates will have strong AWS experience and a background in Infrastructure as Code. This full-time position offers a hybrid work environment and various employee benefits including private healthcare, a pension plan, and tailored training programs.

Benefits

Private Health Care

Pension plan

25 days annual leave plus birthday leave

Life assurance and long-term disability cover

Access to a mental health platform

Tailor-made training program

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on AWS experience with services like IAM, EC2, ECS, and S3.
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code, ideally with Pulumi, Terraform, or CloudFormation.
• Experience in cost optimisation and observability.

Responsibilities

• Improve cloud and application security posture.
• Adopt FinOps practices to optimise cloud spending.
• Support Engineering in deployment of core AWS services.

Skills

AWS

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Security best practices

Cost optimisation

Observability implementation

Collaborative approach

Job description

At Sentric were driven by a mission to create a fairer music industry for artists. Were looking for enthusiastic graduate and associate-level Software Engineers from the Merseyside area to launch their careers with our team in our modern Liverpool office. We offer a hybrid work model and are committed to creating an inclusive and supportive environment where everyone can learn and grow.

About the Role

The Senior Cloud Engineer plays a pivotal role in the effective operation and continuous improvement of the AWS cloud estate and associated application engineering activities. This role provides critical support to the various Engineering disciplines and wider Product and Insights functions with empathetic expertise practices guidance and tooling necessary to ensure efficiency performance scalability security compliance and developer experience of our AWS application estate.

Culture and Behaviour

• Honesty : Communicate trade-offs risks and timelines transparently; own mistakes and remediation.
• Originality : Propose and trial pragmatic improvements grounded in data.
• Progression : Share knowledge via documentation pairing and brownbags; seek and provide feedback.
• Kindness : Collaborate respectfully; design with developer ergonomics in mind.
• Behaviours for success : Proactively surface solution-focused insights on spend performance and risk; align platform work to product goals and follow through to impact.

Deliver Continued Improvements Toward Cloud Infrastructure Maturity

• Support Engineering in improving cloud and application security posture facilitating Threat Modelling and Risk Analysis activities guiding discussions on mitigation controls and implementation planning.
• Take a leading hands-on role in the implementation of critical BCDR controls and practices.
• Lead in the adoption of FinOps practices including the continuous monitoring of cloud activity for potential cost savings supporting engineering colleagues towards effective labelling and attribution practices.
• Evolve the design of the AWS cloud estate ensuring an effective deployment of AWS accounts and security practices aligned to Well Architected Framework.
• Work with suppliers (AWS DoiT etc) to ensure effective supplier relationships sufficient knowledge / expertise and favourable cost decisions.

Drive the Adoption of Best Practices Across Engineering

• Guide engineers in the deployment and operation of core AWS services including S3 ECS EC2 Aurora RDS CloudWatch Lambda and associated services
• Guide best practices in Data Engineering and integration activities including with external services such as Elastic and Snowflake
• Provide guidance and expertise on cloud engineering and IaC to Platform and Engineering colleagues enabling a you build it you run it delivery culture
• Support Platform efforts to optimise CI / CD for speed reliability quality and security
• Champion observability best practices ensuring comprehensive monitoring logging and tracing across all services and environments
• Enforce IAM and security best practices including least privilege access role-based permissions and secure credential management
• Support engineers with effective knowledge and tooling in improving QoS and incident response

Provide Critical Support to Product Insights and Engineering Leadership

• Help manage licensing of critical services and tools ensuring compliance and cost-effectiveness
• Conduct risk assessments and maintain risk registers providing regular updates on mitigation progress
• Lead cloud infrastructure cost management through analysis forecasting and budgeting activities
• Support capacity planning decisions based on business requirements and growth projections
• Act as technical adviser for strategic cloud initiatives and technology selection
• Deliver regular reports on infrastructure health costs and optimisation opportunities to senior stakeholders

Qualifications: Essential Experience

• Strong hands-on AWS experience (IAM EC2 ECS RDS S3 Route53 CloudTrail Control Tower)
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) expertise - Pulumi would be ideal but practical experience of Terraform / CloudFormation is essential
• Security-first mindset with proven IAM and compliance experience
• Cost optimisation and observability implementation
• Collaborative approach to enabling engineering teams
• Not essential but experience of running Microsoft workloads (.NET) on AWS a major bonus!

What Sets You Apart

• Youre driven by empathy
• You champion best practices through enablement and mentorship not mandates and dependence
• You balance technical excellence with pragmatic delivery
• Youre excited about working in a diverse inclusive environment to serve music and the creative industries

Join us in building the technology foundation that helps musicians succeed. Together well create infrastructure thats as reliable and inspiring as the music it supports.

We are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role. However candidates with existing visas that grant the right to work in the UK and do not require our sponsorship (e.g. spousal visa settled status) are welcome to apply.

Additional Information

SET THE TONE WITH US

We have two hearts at Believe - our People and our Artists.

We believe in THE POWER OF OUR PEOPLE who grow every day to develop their potential We aim to provide our employees with the best environment to thrive.

ROCK THE JOB

• Rolebased in Liverpool
• Hybrid working
• Private Health Care
• Pension plan
• 25 days annual leave 1 day for your birthday
• Life assurance and long-term disability cover
• Access a digital mental health and well-being platform
• Tailor-made training and coaching program
• Enhanced sickness pay and maternity / paternity cover

SING IN HARMONY

• Ambassador program : an employee volunteering initiative dedicated to all employees interested in having a positive impact on Diversity Equity & Inclusion(DEI) wellbeing and the planet.

We are committed to having a workforce that is representative of the community it serves at all levels of the organisation. We therefore welcome applications from all backgrounds and all sections of the community regardless of age disability gender race religion and sexual orientation.

Remote Work : No

Employment Type : Full-time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Key Skills

APIs,C / C++,Computer Graphics,Go,React,Redux,Node.js,AWS,Library Services,Assembly,GraphQL,High Voltage