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Cloud Operations Team Lead

Milton Keynes
2 weeks ago
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Are you looking for your next challenge?

Do you want the opportunity to lead the cloud operations for globally expanding market leader?

Our client is a leading supplier of software into the hospitality and higher education industry who are currently growing at circa 15% per annum.

This role will be leading their successful cloud operations team, leading the team of engineers, driving automation and supporting the development teams with robust CI/CD infrastructure in a hands-on leadership role. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Oversee day-to-day cloud operations, including monitoring, incident response and trouble shooting.
  • Leading and managing short and long term project planning.
  • Developing and implementing cloud governance, security and compliance.
  • Leading automation and IaC improvements.
  • Providing mentorship and professional development for the team of cloud engineers.

    KEY EXPERIENCE

  • 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

    SALARY - UP TO £80,000

    LOCATION - MILTON KEYNES (2 Days per month)

    BENEFITS:

  • Performance related bonus scheme
  • 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
  • 2 wellbeing days per year
  • Christmas shut-down period
  • Company pension, private health care, life assurance + additional flexible benefits

    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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