Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements
- Commercial experience as a Cloud Engineer, Systems Engineer, Platform Engineer or Infrastructure Engineer
- Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Good commercial experience with AWS
- Terraform experience is essential
- Ansible automation experience
- Linux administration experience
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Bash and/or Python scripting experience
- Cloud networking experience, including VPCs, IAM, load balancers and routing
- Experience with infrastructure automation and CI/CD
- Strong understanding of cloud security and best practices
- Experience with GKE and/or Amazon EKS is highly desirable
- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana or CloudWatch is highly desirable
- Experience with GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or Flux is highly desirable
- Experience with service mesh technologies is highly desirable
- Experience in PCI DSS or regulated financial environments is highly desirable
- Experience with FinOps or cloud cost optimisation is highly desirable
- Experience with ELK Stack or centralised logging is highly desirable
- Experience with disaster recovery and business continuity planning is highly desirable
- Professional AWS or GCP certifications are highly desirable
Responsibilities
- Design, build and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure across GCP and AWS
- Develop Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
- Create and maintain Ansible playbooks for automation and configuration management
- Build resilient, secure and highly available cloud environments
- Work closely with development teams to support application deployments
- Improve automation, monitoring and operational efficiency
- Optimise cloud performance and spend across multiple environments
- Support incident response, troubleshooting and root cause analysis
- Implement networking, security and disaster recovery best practices
- Produce clear technical documentation and infrastructure standards
Technologies
- AWS
- Ansible
- ArgoCD
- Bash
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- CloudWatch
- DevOps
- Docker
- ELK
- GCP
- GitOps
- Grafana
- IAM
- Support
- Kubernetes
- Linux
- Prometheus
- Python
- Security
- Terraform
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We are a global leader in payment technology and a FinTech organisation with a growing cloud infrastructure team based in Manchester/Stockport. This is a hybrid role with 3 days onsite, offering the chance to work across both Google Cloud Platform and AWS on mission-critical financial services platforms. You will join an established engineering function where automation, Infrastructure as Code and modern DevOps practices are central, within a highly collaborative culture and a long-term programme with strong extension potential.
last updated 31 week of 2026
Cloud Systems Engineer in Stockport employer: PCR Digital
Pcr Digital is an exceptional employer that fosters a collaborative and innovative work culture, particularly in the vibrant city of London. Employees benefit from competitive compensation, opportunities for professional growth, and the chance to work on cutting-edge technology in the broadcast media sector. With a focus on teamwork and leadership development, Pcr Digital empowers its engineers to excel and make a meaningful impact in their roles.
