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Cloud Operations Team Lead

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Are you an experienced cloud operations engineer ready to lead critical infrastructure for a growing SaaS business?

You’ll be joining a well-established software provider serving the higher education sector, trusted by institutions around the world to deliver critical platforms. As the business scales internationally, you’ll take ownership of the cloud operations function - driving platform resilience, scalability, and engineering standards from the ground up.

You’ll lead a skilled team of engineers, enhance AWS infrastructure, support the development teams through robust CI/CD infrastructure. With the freedom to challenge technical assumptions and drive improvements, you’ll be central to the evolution of the company’s operational maturity.

Role: Cloud Operations Team Leader
Location: Milton Keynes / Hybrid (1 day per month in office)
Salary: £70,000 – £80,000 

Ideally, you’ll have:

3+ years of hands-on AWS experience
Strong knowledge of IaC and configuration management tools (Terraform & Ansible or similar)
Proven experience leading cross-functional teams and managing cloud infrastructure projects
Experience in cloud monitoring, alerting, and performance tuning
Experience with CI/CD tools and supporting development workflows
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills If you’re seeking a leadership role with real ownership of cloud operations, and you want to influence a global SaaS platform’s technical direction – click apply to arrange a chat. Interview slots available now.

We are an equal opportunity recruitment company. This means we welcome applications from all suitably qualified people regardless of race, sex, disability, religion, sexual orientation or age.
 
We are particularly invested in Neurodiversity inclusion and offer reasonable adjustments in the interview process. Reasonable adjustments are changes that we can make in the interview process if your disability puts you at a disadvantage compared with others who are not disabled. If you would benefit from a reasonable adjustment in your interview process, please call or email one of our recruiters

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