Cloud Engineer

Job Title: Cloud Engineer
Location: Essex (hybrid- 1-2 days onsite)
Industry: Financial Services / Fintech

Salary: £50,000-60,000 per annum

Overview:
We are seeking a skilled and motivated Cloud Engineer to join our dynamic IT team at a leading finance company based in Essex. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in designing, implementing, and supporting scalable and secure cloud infrastructure to meet evolving business needs in a highly regulated environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain secure and resilient cloud infrastructure, primarily in Microsoft Azure (or AWS/GCP depending on stack).
• Collaborate with development, security, and operations teams to support cloud-native applications and services.
• Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, ARM templates, or CloudFormation.
• Monitor system performance, availability, and cost efficiency, and make recommendations for optimization.
• Ensure compliance with industry regulations (e.g., FCA, GDPR) and internal security policies.
• Implement backup, disaster recovery, and high availability strategies in the cloud.
• Manage identity and access management (IAM), security groups, and networking configurations.
• Automate deployment pipelines and configuration management using DevOps practices and CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins).
• Support incident response, root cause analysis, and post-mortem documentation for cloud-related issues.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Proven experience as a Cloud Engineer or similar role in a production environment.
• Hands-on expertise with a major cloud platform (preferably Azure, but AWS or GCP experience also considered).
• Strong knowledge of networking, firewalls, VPNs, and security best practices in cloud environments.
• Experience with containers and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Scripting or automation experience (PowerShell, Bash, or Python).
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools such as Azure Monitor, CloudWatch, or Datadog.
• Understanding of IT governance, compliance, and risk management within financial services.

Desirable Qualifications:

• Relevant cloud certifications (e.g., Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, etc.).
• Experience with hybrid cloud and on-prem to cloud migrations.
• Understanding of financial services regulatory frameworks.
• Exposure to serverless technologies, APIs, and microservices architecture.

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