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Senior Cloud Platform Engineer
Sword Group. Own the operational health, reliability, security and continual improvement of customer public cloud and hybrid cloud services .
Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in managing public cloud and hybrid cloud services, ensuring operational health, security, and compliance. Proficient in automation, infrastructure-as-code, and technical leadership within complex IT environments.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Public Cloud ManagementHybrid Cloud ArchitectureAutomation and Infrastructure-as-CodeCloud Governance and ComplianceTechnical Leadership and Mentoring
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Hard Skills
Cloud ArchitectureIncident ManagementProblem ManagementChange ManagementService Request ManagementConfiguration ManagementRoot-Cause AnalysisCapacity ManagementScriptingObservability Platforms
Soft Skills
Customer CommunicationSupplier CoordinationMentoring
Tools & Technologies
Microsoft AzureAmazon Web ServicesGoogle CloudPowerShellBashPythonTerraform
Certifications & Qualifications
ITIL FoundationMicrosoft Azure CertificationAmazon Web Services CertificationGoogle Cloud Certification
Industry Keywords
Managed ServicesOperational ReadinessService TransitionCompliance MonitoringCost Management
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAWSAzureCloudPythonTerraform
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Own the operational health, reliability, security and continual improvement of customer public cloud and hybrid cloud services
- Operate and maintain services across major public cloud platforms, including compute, storage, networking, identity, security, monitoring, backup and recovery
- Support hybrid cloud environments connecting public cloud services with on-premises datacentres, private cloud platforms, edge locations and legacy systems
- Manage technical dependencies between cloud platforms, virtualisation, operating systems, networks, identity services, databases and applications
- Apply and improve cloud governance controls, including policy, access management, configuration standards, compliance monitoring, resource classification and cost oversight
- Develop and maintain automation and infrastructure-as-code for deployment, configuration, validation, remediation, reporting and recurring operational tasks
- Act as senior technical escalation point for complex incidents, performance issues and service failures
- Identify root causes, recurring failures, configuration drift, capacity constraints and technical debt, then drive corrective and preventative action
- Plan and implement controlled platform changes, assessing security, resilience, interoperability, performance, cost, service impact and supportability
- Support onboarding and service transition by ensuring environments are documented, observable, recoverable, governed and ready for live managed service operation
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring across the engineering team
Requirements
What you’ll need- Typically 5+ years’ experience in enterprise IT operations, managed services, consultancy or complex in-house environments, with substantial responsibility for production public cloud and hybrid cloud services
- Relevant professional certifications across Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud, at administrator, engineer, security, networking or architect level
- ITIL Foundation or equivalent service-management qualification
- Practical experience of incident, problem, change, service request and knowledge management
- Strong technical knowledge of public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud architectures
- Knowledge of compute, storage, networking, virtualisation, identity, security, backup, recovery and platform services
- Experience supporting hybrid environments connecting public cloud, on-premises datacentres, private cloud, edge locations, enterprise networks and legacy workloads
- Understanding of cloud governance, policy enforcement, access control, privileged access, configuration standards, tagging, compliance, cost management and operational guardrails
- Ability to diagnose complex issues across cloud platforms, operating systems, networks, identity services, security controls, databases, applications and third-party integrations
- Experience using observability platforms, cloud-native telemetry and service data
- Experience with automation, scripting and infrastructure-as-code using PowerShell, Bash, Python, Terraform or provider-native deployment frameworks
- Managed service capability including technical escalation, root-cause analysis, controlled change, operational readiness, documentation, customer communication, supplier coordination and mentoring
Benefits
Comp & perks- Personalised career development plan customised to goals and aspirations
- Learning and development opportunities
- Flexible work arrangements
- Generous annual leave allowance
- Enhanced family-friendly benefits
- Pension scheme
- Access to private health schemes
- Well-being schemes
- Insurance schemes
- Employee assistance programme
- Discounted cash plan
- Inclusive workplace and equal opportunities
- Support for accessibility adjustments during the hiring process