Cloud Platform Engineer in City of London

Surevine’s mission is to build and deliver secure, scalable collaboration solutions for the most security conscious organisations, enabling collaboration on their most highly sensitive information. Surevine offers our people a platform for you to transform your individual talents into strengths within a creative, innovation-driven environment. We hire engineers who are adaptable, curious, and committed to creating excellent engineering solutions through both independent work and collaboration.

You will get exposure to engineering techniques across the software lifecycle; test-driven development, AI-assisted development, experimentation, prototyping and automation. We aren’t in the habit of hiring engineering zealots or rigid process followers but instead try to find highly adaptable people who can thoughtfully evaluate context and apply appropriate tools and approaches to the job at hand. We are actively using AI tools to accelerate our development, improve code quality and solve complex problems. We want you to use these tools effectively, while maintaining strong engineering fundamentals and critical thinking about AI-generated outputs.

We want you to have (or be looking to learn) an understanding of the impact of engineering decisions on security posture. Critically, we want you to be honest about what you know and what you don’t know and know how to work with your “don’t know”. We are a distributed company and always have been, so you'll need to communicate effectively using our online tools and collaborate with team members through various channels (video calls, chat, async documentation, etc.), whether working in-person or remotely. We value clear communication and welcome different communication styles and preferences.

We make our solutions by looking at the problem from all angles, but we don’t sit around staring at a problem. Sometimes the only way to learn is to build an MVP and put it in the hands of a real person. And engineering in Surevine right now means being comfortable with AI-augmented development workflows and leveraging ground-breaking tools to amplify your capabilities.

What you will be doing

• Build, test, package, deploy and operate cloud platforms and shared platform tooling within multi-tenant cloud environments.
• Automate infrastructure using Pulumi/Terraform (or CloudFormation/Packer), packaging services into Docker containers, AMIs or serverless deployments.
• Work onsite with customer stakeholders, advising on cloud architecture decisions, operating models and security controls.
• Deliver platform improvements and new tooling within an agile delivery environment, applying SRE principles to production operations.
• Create and maintain security guardrails and controls (SCPs, AWS Config rules, etc.) across a multi-account cloud environment.
• Administer Kubernetes clusters and manage containerised workloads in a production cloud environment.
• Contribute to the cloud operating model and help define best practices as the platform matures.
• Apply the cloud shared responsibility model and embed security best practices across the platform.
• Build strong working relationships with customer stakeholders onsite, acting as a credible technical representative during delivery.

About you

• Solid cloud experience with AWS, Azure or GCP, ideally including multi-account architectures and Landing Zone concepts.
• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code using Pulumi/Terraform; experience with CloudFormation, Packer or Helm.
• Competent in Python (including Lambda development) and bash scripting for automation and tooling.
• Experience building and operating containers (Docker) and Kubernetes administration in a production environment.
• Understanding of SRE principles and the challenges of running services reliably in a production cloud environment.
• Knowledge of platform engineering concepts and the distinction between platform and application DevOps.
• Proven delivery experience within agile, team-based environments.
• Comfortable working onsite with customers, adapting communication style for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience joining and contributing to an existing delivery project or engineering programme.
• Commercial experience within Agile & DevOps environments.
• Able to communicate effectively in a remote environment through written and verbal channels. We accommodate different communication preferences and styles, and value clarity over any particular communication approach.

Working at Surevine

We’re committed to building an inclusive environment where diverse perspectives and working styles strengthen our team. We:

• Provide reasonable accommodations throughout the application and employment process.
• Support different communication and collaboration preferences.
• Offer flexible working arrangements.
• Value both collaborative work and focused individual contribution time.
• Provide clear expectations, structured onboarding, and ongoing mentorship.

If you need any accommodations during the application process or have questions about how we work, please let us know.