Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Sword is a leading provider of business technology solutions within the Energy, Public and Finance Sectors, driving transformational change within our clients. We use proven technology, specialist teams and domain expertise to build solid technical foundations across platforms, data, and business applications. We have a passion for using technology to solve business problems, working in partnership with our clients to help in achieving their goals.

About The Role

This is an opportunity to play a key role in designing, implementing, and evolving enterprise‑scale cloud solutions within complex and highly regulated environments. Working closely with architecture, security, and delivery teams, you’ll help shape scalable cloud platforms and deployment patterns that support critical business services and long‑term transformation initiatives. The role combines hands‑on engineering with technical leadership, giving you the opportunity to influence solution direction while remaining close to delivery. You’ll contribute across the full delivery lifecycle — from solution design and infrastructure automation through to deployment, testing, and operational readiness — ensuring solutions are secure, resilient, and aligned to organisational standards.

As a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer, You Will:

• Design, build, and support enterprise‑scale cloud infrastructure and platform solutions.
• Develop scalable and reusable Infrastructure‑as‑Code solutions using Terraform.
• Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines to support efficient and reliable delivery practices.
• Collaborate with architecture and security teams to ensure solutions align with enterprise standards and governance requirements.
• Support cloud environment provisioning, configuration, and deployment activities across multiple initiatives.
• Work closely with technical SMEs, engineers, and delivery teams to ensure successful integration and operational readiness.
• Contribute to solution documentation, technical standards, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support testing and transition activities, including operational acceptance and production readiness.
• Participate in cross‑functional working groups to improve engineering consistency, automation, and delivery outcomes.
• Maintain awareness of evolving cloud technologies, platform capabilities, and industry best practices.

Requirements:

• Strong hands‑on experience delivering enterprise‑scale cloud solutions within AWS environments.
• Proven experience using Terraform for Infrastructure‑as‑Code delivery.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions or similar.
• Understanding of cloud architecture principles, security, networking, and scalable infrastructure design.
• Experience working within complex enterprise or regulated environments.
• Exposure to containerisation and orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes.
• Strong problem‑solving and analytical skills with a structured and delivery‑focused approach.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Comfortable working autonomously while collaborating across multidisciplinary teams.
• Proactive mindset with a focus on continuous improvement and engineering excellence.

It Would Be Great If You Also Had:

• Experience supporting large‑scale transformation or migration programmes.
• Familiarity with cloud governance, monitoring, and operational best practices.
• Experience working within the energy, utilities, or critical infrastructure sectors.

Benefits:

At Sword, our core values and culture are based on caring about our people, investing in training and career development, and building inclusive teams where we are all encouraged to contribute to achieve success. We offer comprehensive benefits designed to support your professional development and enhance your overall quality of life. In addition to a Competitive Salary, here’s what you can expect as part of our benefits package:

• Personalised Career Development: We create a development plan customised to your goals and aspirations, with a range of learning and development opportunities within a culture that encourages growth.
• Flexible working: Flexible work arrangements to support your work‑life balance. We can’t promise to always be able to meet every request, however, are keen to discuss your individual preferences to make it work where we can.
• A Fantastic Benefits Package: This includes generous annual leave allowance, enhanced family friendly benefits, pension scheme, access to private health, well‑being, and insurance schemes.

At Sword we are dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and are proud to be an equal opportunities employer, ensuring that all applicants receive fair and equal consideration for employment, regardless of whether they meet every requirement. If you don’t tick all the boxes but feel you have some of the relevant skills and experience we’re looking for, please do consider applying and highlight your transferable skills and experience. We embrace diversity in all its forms, valuing individuals regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation. Your perspective and potential are important to us.