Senior Cloud Native Consultant

Academic Key; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 99,000 - 121,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous salary + benefits

Flexible remote work

London office optional visits

Professional development budget

Private medical and dental insurance

Job summary

ControlPlane in London seeks a Senior Cloud Native Consultant to lead client engagements in cloud-native and security-focused projects. You will collaborate across internal labs and open-source initiatives, delivering robust, scalable architectures.

The role supports remote work with optional in-person time at the London office, and may involve pre-sales activities to help grow the business. Strong Kubernetes and GitOps skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience with Kubernetes in cloud environments (GKE/EKS/OpenShift).
• Proficient in GitOps tooling and infrastructure as code practices.
• Development experience in Golang, Python or Java.

Responsibilities

• Advise and hands-on consulting on cloud-native architectures for clients.
• Work across internal labs projects and open-source contributions.
• Engage in pre-sales or business development activities as needed.
• Lead secure-by-design and secure-by-default approaches in deployments.
• Collaborate with customers remotely, with optional in-person London office time.

Skills

Kubernetes

GKE

EKS

OpenShift

GitOps

Golang

Python

Java

Tools

FluxCD

ArgoCD

Terraform

Job description

Senior Cloud Native Consultant

Controlplane

Report To: Consulting Delivery manager Employment Status: Full Time Salary: Up to £110,000 + Benefits

Who is ControlPlane? ControlPlane is a London-headquartered consultancy specialising in cloud-native, Kubernetes, and open-source security solutions. Our expertise lies in helping organisations adopt and secure complex cloud infrastructures by implementing security measures that are "secure-by-design" and "secure-by-default." This engineering excellence drives ControlPlane deep into cybersecurity, providing services like zero-trust architectures, threat modeling, supply chain security, and platform engineering. We are acclaimed for our work in highly regulated industries, such as finance, healthcare, and national infrastructure. We help clients consume next-generation and open-source projects safely and securely. In addition to consulting, we are active contributors to the open-source community supporting projects like Flux CD, OpenBao, and FINOS AI Readiness.

What We’re Looking For in a Cloud Native Consultant We are looking for cloud native engineers and consultants at all levels to represent the technical and cultural values of ControlPlane, leading our customers by example in the complex and fast-changing world of cloud native technology. You will perform a mix of client consulting, working on internal labs projects, and contributing to Open Source projects on ControlPlane’s behalf. This is a remote position, but we invite you to spend time in person at our London office: this is optional and we aim to be entirely flexible to your needs. As part of the engineering team we may ask you to be involved in pre-sales or business development activities to support the ongoing growth of our organisation.

Role, Responsibilities and Requirements of Our Cloud Native Consultant

• Experience and a deep understanding of Kubernetes using GKE, EKS or OpenShift
• Experience with one or more cloud providers and Infrastructure as Code tools and practices
• Experience with GitOps tooling such as FluxCD or ArgoCD
• Development experience with Golang, Python, or Java
• Understanding of CI/CD best practices and a range of build tools
• Cloud security awareness and a desire to build hardened systems
• Customer facing/Consulting experience
• Experience with SPIFFE/SPIRE
• Experience with Hashicorp Vault/OpenBao
• Experience with Zero Trust Architectures, tools and practices

Benefits ControlPlane is a dynamic, cutting-edge and passionate business to work for. Our employees are at the heart of our business, which means we care about our culture, our people and their progression. Alongside this, as a colleague you will have the following benefits:

• Generous and competitive salary + Bonus
• 33 days of paid holiday, including paid leave for the standard 8 UK Bank Holidays
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Private Medical and Dental Insurance
• An individual training budget for personal development, including but not limited to: Conferences Training (books, courses, coaching, as well as internal training which is of course included beyond budget)

Qualifications We are looking for technical practitioners who can work with our clients and the team to deliver these projects and help establish ControlPlane as a world-class technical thought leader. We believe our peers are equally as important as the technology we use. We’re looking for people of the highest personal calibre, quietly confident, with a good work ethic, keenness to learn, emotional maturity and respect, who know that “we” is more than “me”, and who embrace human diversity of all kinds. As we grow you will help us to build a company culture of which we can all be proud. If you espouse these values, we want you!

NOTE FOR RECRUITMENT AGENCIES: Please do not call or email our team speculatively; we do not accept unsolicited CVs.

Academic Key will never request login credentials or application fees for this role.