Senior Infrastructure Engineer

eTeam; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 62,000 - 81,000; Full time

Job summary

eTeam is recruiting a Senior Infrastructure Engineer in Sheffield to design, implement, and operate cloud-native infrastructure. The role focuses on AWS, Kubernetes, IaC with Terraform, and modern DevOps practices to deliver secure, scalable platforms for enterprise environments.

You will drive automation, cost optimization, and platform resilience while collaborating with cross-functional teams to meet business objectives and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on cloud/platform engineering or DevOps in large-scale environments.
• Strong AWS and Kubernetes design, deployment, and operations experience.
• Expertise with Terraform IaC and modern CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to cloud, DevOps, and platform initiatives across AWS and Kubernetes.
• Design, build, configure, and operate AWS-based solutions using IaC.
• Develop and enhance Kubernetes platform capabilities for resilience and scale.
• Implement cloud cost management, tagging, and capacity planning.
• Support evaluation of open-source tech and LLM workloads in AWS/Kubernetes.
• Apply release management, automation, monitoring, and incident readiness.
• Collaborate with security, risk, and IT teams to meet standards.
• Drive continuous improvement for platform stability and observability.

Skills

AWS & Kubernetes

Terraform IaC

CI/CD practices

DevOps mindset

Python scripting

Cloud cost optimization

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Helm

Jira

Confluence

Job description

We are a Global Recruitment specialist that provides support to the clients across EMEA, APAC, US and Canada. We have an excellent job opportunity for you.

Location: Sheffield S1 4NB with 3 days/week in the office

Pay Rate: £389 per day all inc. (PAYE through Umbrella)

Description:

• We are seeking an experienced Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join our technology team and play a critical role in the design, implementation, and operation of modern cloud and platform engineering capabilities.
• This role is ideal for an engineer with strong expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, DevOps, and Infrastructure as Code, who thrives in complex, enterprise-scale environments and is passionate about building secure, resilient, and highly scalable platforms.
• As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you will work closely with engineering teams, architects, security specialists, and business stakeholders to deliver innovative cloud-native solutions that support critical business services.
• You will contribute to platform strategy, drive automation initiatives, enhance operational excellence, and help shape the future of cloud and infrastructure services.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to cloud, DevOps, and platform engineering initiatives across Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Kubernetes, delivering secure, scalable, and highly available infrastructure capabilities.
• Work within one or more engineering pods, helping define technical requirements, conducting design reviews, and providing hands-on engineering support throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Design, build, configure, and operate AWS-based solutions using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), primarily Terraform, to improve consistency, reliability, and deployment efficiency.
• Develop and enhance Kubernetes platform capabilities to support increasing demand while improving resilience, scalability, performance, operational efficiency, and developer experience.
• Implement and maintain cloud cost management practices, including resource tagging, allocation, rightsizing, capacity planning, usage monitoring, and cost optimisation strategies.
• Support the evaluation and adoption of open-source technologies and Large Language Model (LLM) solutions, ensuring alignment with security, privacy, licensing, regulatory, and operational requirements.
• Apply robust release management and production-readiness processes, including automation, deployment governance, monitoring, alerting, logging, rollback procedures, and incident preparedness.
• Collaborate with Cloud Services, Application DevOps, Architecture, Security, Risk, Compliance, and IT teams to ensure platform standards, remediation activities, and delivery objectives are consistently achieved.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance platform stability, security, observability, and operational excellence.

Skills & Experience Required

• Extensive hands-on experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering, or DevOps within large-scale enterprise environments.
• Proven experience designing, building, deploying, monitoring, and supporting production platforms and cloud infrastructure.
• Strong practical knowledge of AWS and Kubernetes, with experience delivering highly available, secure, resilient, and scalable solutions.
• Expertise in Terraform and Infrastructure as Code methodologies.
• Experience with modern DevOps practices including Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), automated testing, version control, and controlled production deployments.
• Working knowledge of technologies including Docker, Helm, service mesh technologies, Python, cloud-native deployment tools, monitoring, logging, and alerting platforms.
• Experience supporting cloud migrations and addressing governance, compliance, security, resilience, capacity management, and operational readiness challenges.
• Strong understanding of cloud financial management, resource governance, and cost optimisation, with the ability to identify and implement measurable improvements.
• Sound understanding of security best practices, architecture governance, compliance requirements, risk management, and the responsible adoption of emerging technologies.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience working within Agile, Scrum, and DevOps delivery frameworks.
• Experience evaluating, integrating, or operating multi-vendor Large Language Model (LLM) workloads within AWS and Kubernetes environments.
• Previous experience within a highly regulated industry, particularly financial services or banking.
• Familiarity with collaboration and delivery tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Relevant cloud, Kubernetes, or DevOps certifications would be advantageous.

If you are interested in this position and would like to learn more, please send through your CV and we will get in touch with you as soon as possible. Please note, candidates are often Shortlisted within 48 hours.