Senior Cloud Engineer

Job title: Senior Cloud Engineer ** No sponsorship offered** Location: London, United Kingdom Hybrid: 1 day on site per week Contract: 12 months (renewable) Overview: Our client, an established financial services organisation is undertaking a significant technology transformation, evolving from traditional infrastructure and hosting models towards a modern cloud-first operating model. As a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, maintaining, and enhancing enterprise cloud platforms while helping shape the future direction of infrastructure, automation, security, and platform practices. Key responsibilities: Manage and support enterprise cloud infrastructure across both Windows and Linux environments.Maintain platform stability, performance, availability, and compliance standards.Implement and manage security hardening, patching strategies, and configuration management frameworks.Ensure robust identity and access controls through role-based access management and governance policies.Maintain monitoring, alerting, backup, disaster recovery, and operational support processes.Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions using modern provisioning tools.Contribute to the design and enhancement of cloud landing zones and reusable infrastructure modules.Support migration initiatives from on-premise environments to cloud platforms.Build and improve CI/CD pipelines to enable secure, repeatable deployments.Enable self-service infrastructure capabilities for engineering and development teams.Implement scalable platform services aligned with engineering standards and architectural principles.Integrate security controls, vulnerability management, and identity protection mechanisms.Monitor resource consumption and implement cost management best practices across cloud environment Skills required: You must have experience within Financial ServicesEnterprise cloud engineering across governance, security, networking, and operations.Windows Server administration with Linux support experience.Infrastructure as Code and automation using Terraform, Bicep, Ansible, or DSC.Scripting and automation using PowerShell and Bash.CI/CD pipeline development using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.Cloud networking, Kubernetes, monitoring, and observability experience.Knowledge of cloud security, identity management, and Zero Trust principles.If you are interested please apply directly via the Linked In job post.