Senior Cloud Platform Engineer: Terraform & GitOps Remote

Expert Thinking; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Funded certifications

Progression to Principal Consultant

Remote-first culture

Job summary

Expert Thinking, a specialist UK cloud consultancy, is seeking two Senior Consultants for Cloud & Platform Engineering. You will design, build and modernise enterprise cloud platforms as part of a Strike Team, collaborating with architects, engineers and stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable solutions.

The role focuses on cloud engineering with data platform and AI enabling infrastructure involvement. It is remote-first in the UK with occasional client-site travel, reporting to the Head of

Qualifications

• Experience delivering to external clients in a consultancy or professional services firm.
• Hands-on enterprise cloud engineering on AWS and/or Azure.
• Strong Terraform or OpenTofu, CI/CD and Git workflows.
• Solid knowledge of cloud networking, IAM, security and resilient architecture.
• Clear communication and the ability to own technical deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Build cloud foundations on AWS and/or Azure: landing zones, networking, identity, governance and security.
• Write reusable infrastructure in Terraform / OpenTofu.
• Implement platform engineering capabilities and self-service provisioning.
• Work with Kubernetes (EKS, AKS) and containerised workloads.
• Design CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows, and automate with scripting.
• Embed DevSecOps, observability and cost management into delivery.
• Contribute to workshops and challenge existing approaches constructively.

Skills

Cloud engineering experience

Terraform / OpenTofu

CI/CD and Git

Kubernetes and containers

Own technical deliverables

Tools

Terraform/OpenTofu

Kubernetes (EKS/AKS)

Job description

Expert Thinking, a specialist UK cloud consultancy, is seeking two Senior Consultants for Cloud & Platform Engineering. You will design, build and modernise enterprise cloud platforms as part of a Strike Team, collaborating with architects, engineers and stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable solutions.

The role focuses on cloud engineering with data platform and AI enabling infrastructure involvement. It is remote-first in the UK with occasional client-site travel, reporting to the Head of