Senior Cloud Platform Engineer – Reliability & Automation

Sword Group; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Personalised Career Development

Flexible working

Pension scheme

Private health

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

Sword Group is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to take operational ownership of public and hybrid cloud services across customer environments. This hands‑on role focuses on production reliability, security, governance and continual service improvement rather than isolated tasks.

You will diagnose complex incidents, manage dependencies across cloud, networks and identity services, and mentor engineers while driving root‑cause analysis and preventative actions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in enterprise IT operations, managed services or complex in‑house environments with production cloud services.
• Hands‑on experience across public cloud platforms, security, networking and governance.
• Strong understanding of automation, IaC and operational readiness.
• Experience diagnosing complex incidents and providing practical root cause analysis.
• Relevant professional certifications in public cloud platforms are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the operational health, reliability, security and continual improvement of customer public cloud and hybrid cloud services.
• Operate and maintain services across major public cloud platforms, covering compute, storage, networking, identity, security, monitoring, backup and recovery.
• Support hybrid cloud environments connecting public cloud services with on‑premises datacentres, private cloud platforms, edge locations and legacy systems.
• Manage dependencies between cloud platforms, virtualization, OS, networks, identity services, databases and applications.
• Apply and improve cloud governance controls, including policy, access management, configuration standards, compliance monitoring, resource classification and cost oversight.
• Develop and maintain automation and infrastructure‑as‑code for deployment, configuration, validation, remediation, reporting and recurring operational tasks.
• Act as the senior technical escalation point for complex incidents, performance issues and service failures spanning public cloud and hybrid environments.
• Identify root causes, recurring failures, configuration drift, capacity constraints and technical debt, then drive corrective and preventative action.
• Plan and implement controlled platform changes, assessing security, resilience, interoperability, performance, cost, service impact and ongoing supportability.
• Support onboarding and service transition by ensuring environments are documented, observable, recoverable, governed and ready for live managed service operation, while providing technical leadership and mentoring across the engineering team.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Hybrid cloud

Automation

Incident management

Terraform

Tools

Terraform

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Ansible

Job description

Sword Group is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to take operational ownership of public and hybrid cloud services across customer environments. This hands‑on role focuses on production reliability, security, governance and continual service improvement rather than isolated tasks.

You will diagnose complex incidents, manage dependencies across cloud, networks and identity services, and mentor engineers while driving root‑cause analysis and preventative actions.