Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - Terraform, Azure & AWS

SMG; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

SMG is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to design, build and operate the cloud platform underpinning SMG products. You will embed with product squads, migrate remaining AWS workloads to an Azure landing zone, and shape future platform strategy with reusable Terraform modules and robust observability and reliability practices.

You will lead migration efforts, implement SRE tooling, define runbooks, and mentor teams on cloud best practices.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience designing, building and operating cloud platforms in Azure.
• Experience migrating workloads from AWS into Azure landing zones.
• Proven ability to implement SRE, observability, metrics, tracing and logging.
• Strong IaC, Terraform modules and CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of cloud security, cost governance and tagging/governance.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the Azure landing zone and cloud foundations.
• Operate observability tooling with SLO dashboards across products.
• Contribute to platform roadmap and develop shared capabilities.
• Build Terraform modules and pipelines for safe provisioning.
• Design private networking and identity across the landing zone.

Skills

Azure

AWS

Terraform

SRE

Observability

IaC

CI/CD

Networking

Entra ID RBAC

Runbooks

Tools

Azure DevOps

Bitbucket

Datadog

Terraform

Bicep/ARM

Job description

SMG is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to design, build and operate the cloud platform underpinning SMG products. You will embed with product squads, migrate remaining AWS workloads to an Azure landing zone, and shape future platform strategy with reusable Terraform modules and robust observability and reliability practices.

You will lead migration efforts, implement SRE tooling, define runbooks, and mentor teams on cloud best practices.