Senior Cloud Engineer: Secure, Scalable Infra & Automation

Vodafone Group Plc; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Vodafone Group Plc in London, UK, seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer to design, build and operate cloud infrastructure and platform services. You will treat infrastructure as code, define it in code and release via automated pipelines.

You will work with Cloud Architects and engineering teams to deliver secure, observable and scalable solutions, applying IAM, security controls and cost-aware optimization as part of day-to-day operations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of cloud, infrastructure or platform engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on experience designing, building and operating cloud-native infrastructure and services.
• Strong practical experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or equivalent, including version control, testing and automated delivery.
• Experience operating services on at least one major cloud platform.
• Experience with containers, orchestration and cloud-native infrastructure.
• A strong understanding of cloud networking, identity and access management.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines and automated provisioning and deployment processes.
• Experience implementing observability, monitoring, alerting and operational tooling.
• Experience supporting production infrastructure and resolving operational incidents.
• Strong scripting and automation skills.
• An understanding of resilience, distributed systems and infrastructure supportability.
• The ability to incorporate security and compliance requirements into infrastructure solutions from the outset.
• An understanding of AI-assisted software delivery and the infrastructure capabilities required to support its safe and effective adoption.
• The ability to mentor and collaborate with engineers through design reviews, technical discussions and knowledge sharing.
• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate secure, scalable and reliable cloud infrastructure and platform services through code and automation.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code modules, automation tooling and deployment pipelines.
• Deliver reliable environments and reusable platform capabilities that support engineering teams and customer-facing services.
• Build monitoring, observability, alerting and operational controls into infrastructure from the outset.
• Support production environments, including incident investigation, root-cause analysis and resolution.
• Apply identity, access management, security, compliance and operational controls across delivered infrastructure.
• Improve reliability, consistency and maintainability through automation and reusable engineering patterns.
• Contribute to cloud cost optimisation through automation, right-sizing and platform improvements.
• Support AI-native engineering practices through infrastructure automation and appropriate platform capabilities.
• Identify technical risks and escalates architectural or strategic concerns where appropriate.
• Collaborate on design reviews and support other engineers through technical mentoring and knowledge sharing.
• Contribute reusable standards, modules and engineering improvements across the cloud engineering community.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Cloud infrastructure

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Observability

Security & compliance

Automation

Mentoring

AI-native engineering

Education

Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Vodafone Group Plc in London, UK, seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer to design, build and operate cloud infrastructure and platform services. You will treat infrastructure as code, define it in code and release via automated pipelines.

You will work with Cloud Architects and engineering teams to deliver secure, observable and scalable solutions, applying IAM, security controls and cost-aware optimization as part of day-to-day operations.