Cloud Platform Engineer

Cloud Platform Engineer Permanent Location: UK - Remote Salary: £65,000 - £75,000 Skills: AWS, Linux, Terraform, Ansible, OpenShift, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure We're looking for a hands-on Cloud Platform Engineer to join a growing technical consultancy delivering secure cloud and infrastructure solutions across customer environments. This role would suit an experienced Cloud, DevOps, Platform or Infrastructure Engineer who enjoys building and supporting technical environments but also wants greater involvement in solution design, customer engagement and architecture. You'll work closely with senior consultants, architects and customer teams to build cloud platforms, automate infrastructure and contribute to secure, practical technical solutions. You do not need to be an established Solutions Architect, but you should be comfortable discussing technical requirements, documenting designs and taking ownership of technical delivery. This is a remote role with some travel for customer and team meetings (approximately once a month). What you'll be doing Building and configuring cloud infrastructure, with a strong focus on AWSSupporting cloud and platform delivery across AWS and potentially AzureWorking with Linux environments, ideally including Red HatDeploying and supporting OpenShift and Kubernetes platformsAutomating infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible and related toolingSupporting migrations, upgrades, monitoring, resilience and platform improvementsTroubleshooting cloud, Linux, container and infrastructure issuesContributing to high-level and low-level technical designsProducing implementation documentation, operational handover material and technical runbooksWorking directly with customers to understand requirements and resolve technical challengesSupporting senior architects and consultants with solution design and technical assuranceWorking across one or two customer projects at a time What we're looking for Strong hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps or infrastructure engineeringGood practical AWS experience, including building and supporting cloud environmentsStrong Linux administration and troubleshooting skillsExperience with Terraform or another Infrastructure as Code toolExperience with Ansible or similar automation/configuration management toolingExposure to Kubernetes and/or OpenShiftAn understanding of cloud networking, IAM, security, monitoring and resilienceComfortable producing technical documentation and contributing to solution designsAble to communicate effectively with customers and internal technical teamsAn interest in developing further towards cloud or solution architecture Useful experience Azure experiencePrevious consultancy or customer-facing project experienceCI/CD tooling such as GitLab, Jenkins, GitHub Actions or similarBash, PowerShell or Python scriptingCloudFormationMonitoring tools such as CloudWatch, Grafana or PrometheusSecure, regulated, government or defence environmentsExisting SC clearance or eligibility to obtain UK Security ClearanceAWS, Azure, Red Hat, Kubernetes or Terraform certifications