A growing software business in Reading is hiring a Cloud Engineer to help build out and scale its cloud infrastructure.
This is a hands‑on role with real ownership, working closely with the Engineering Lead on both architecture and day‑to‑day delivery. You'll play a key part in building a modern Kubernetes platform, migrating environments across, and running it day to day.
What you'll be doing
- Build and scale a modern Kubernetes platform
- Design and write Terraform to deploy cloud infrastructure cleanly and repeatably
- Migrate existing environments onto the platform
- Own and operate clusters across multiple environments
- Build out backup, snapshot and recovery processes
- Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines
- Set up monitoring, alerting and observability
- Take ownership of reliability and uptime as the platform grows
- Experience with Kubernetes - managing clusters day to day
- Experience with Terraform - writing and maintaining infrastructure as code
- Familiar with a major cloud platform - AWS or GCP preferred
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or similar)
- Solid Linux and networking fundamentals
- An operational mindset - reliability, observability and automation, not just deployment
- Good understanding of cloud security and access management
- Experience with monitoring and alerting tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch or similar)
- Scripting or automation skills (Bash, Python, Go, etc)
- Experience supporting cloud migrations or platform modernisation
- Exposure to regulated or compliance-led environments
What's on offer
- A greenfield project with real ownership - shape and build the platform from the ground up
- Close collaboration with the Engineering Lead on technical direction
- Clear career progression and scope to grow as the platform and team expand
- Permanent role, hybrid working
- Modern office in Reading with free on‑site parking
How to apply
Submit your CV to be considered, and we'll be in touch with the full details.
