Senior Cloud Engineer – AWS & Kubernetes
📍 Hybrid / South East UK | 🛠 AWS | Kubernetes | Terraform
A leading global media & technology organisation is looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer to join its Infrastructure team, working on some of the most performance-critical cloud systems in the industry.
This is a unique opportunity to combine enterprise-grade cloud engineering with the fast-paced demands of live global events, supporting an AWS and Kubernetes platform across multiple sites.
🧩 What You’ll Be Doing
- Lead design, support, and optimisation of hybrid Kubernetes platforms (on-prem & cloud)
- Own and evolve AWS infrastructure: EKS, EC2, IAM, VPCs, Route53, S3
- Use Terraform to provision scalable, repeatable infrastructure as code
- Act as a senior stakeholder on key infrastructure projects
- Collaborate with InfoSec teams to ensure cloud compliance and governance
- Support infrastructure during global events — both remotely and occasionally on-site
- Partner with DevOps, development, and platform teams to deliver resilient, scalable systems
- Be available for occasional work outside normal business hours (planned and unplanned)
✅ What You’ll Bring
- 7+ years\' experience in IT infrastructure roles
- 4+ years working with AWS at scale (networking, security, core services)
- Extensive hands-on Kubernetes experience in production
- Solid grasp of hybrid networking: Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, VPC Peering
- Experience working as a 3rd line engineer or Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
- Strong communication skills and ability to remain calm under pressure
- Understanding of low-level compute (CPU, memory, storage)
- UK driving licence required (for travel to on-site event support)
💡 Why Apply?
- Work with high-performance infrastructure used in globally broadcast events
- Collaborate with a forward-thinking engineering and DevOps team
- Combine technical depth with high-impact, real-time systems
- Opportunity to influence architectural direction at a senior level
Ready to step into a role where cloud meets real-time global scale?
Apply now or message directly for more details.
