Cloud Engineer

Southampton
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A growing UK software business is looking for a Cloud Engineer to help design, build and run secure, resilient cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure.

You'll play a key role in modernising platforms, migrating legacy services, and improving automation, observability and security across a multi-cloud estate.

Cloud Engineer (AWS & Azure)
Hybrid (2 days per month onsite)
Location: Southampton

What you'll be doing

Designing, deploying and operating production cloud services across AWS & Azure (networking, storage, compute, app services).
Building secure, resilient, observable infrastructure and services (monitoring, logging, tracing).
Delivering cloud migration workstreams from traditional / on-prem environments into scalable cloud platforms.
Automating infrastructure and deployments using IaC and CI/CD, with a strong focus on repeatability and reliability.
Working closely with engineering and stakeholders to translate requirements into practical, supportable solutions.
What we're looking for

Strong, hands-on experience with AWS & Azure in production environments.
Proven experience delivering cloud migrations (planning, build, cutover, optimisation).
Good understanding of security and operational best practice (identity, access, hardening, monitoring, incident readiness).
Comfort with automation and CI/CD (pipelines, deployment tooling, scripting).
Clear communicator who can collaborate across teams.
Technical environment (indicative)

AWS: EC2, ECS, S3, RDS, VPC, Lambda, IAM
Azure: Azure SQL, Entra ID, Azure DevOps, Container Apps, API Management, Functions
IaC / Automation: Terraform / OpenTofu / Scalr, Octopus Deploy (or similar), Azure DevOps, PowerShell, Azure CLI
Scripting: PowerShell, Python, Bash
Containers: Docker, container registries (e.g., ACR)
CI/CD: Azure DevOps Pipelines, YAML automation
Observability: Datadog, Grafana Cloud, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Loki
Benefits (from day one)

Up to 15% Bonus scheme
25 days annual leave + bank holidays
Pension: 4% employer contribution when you contribute 5%
Free onsite gym
EV car scheme
Healthcare scheme (incl. dental/eye care/treatments/diagnostics consultations)
Death in service (3x salary)
Employee Assistance Programme (24/7 counselling + legal/financial support + GP line)
Paid volunteering day + fundraising opportunities
Apply now or contact Chris Lynes at Spectrum IT Recruitment for more information.

Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy

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