Cloud Engineer (AWS & Azure) | Manchester (Hybrid 1-2 days a week) | £55,000-£70,000
We’re working with a highly successful, fast-growing European investment and asset management organisation to recruit an experienced Cloud Engineer
to join their expanding IT & Change function.
This is a fantastic opportunity to play a key role in shaping and scaling a modern, multi-cloud environment, supporting cutting-edge initiatives including AI-driven platforms and large-scale infrastructure transformation.
The Opportunity
As a Cloud Engineer, you’ll operate across both AWS (primary)
and Azure (secondary)
environments, supporting business-as-usual operations while driving forward key strategic projects.
You’ll take ownership of cloud architecture, resilience, and security, ensuring platforms are scalable, cost-efficient, and aligned with best practice, while acting as a technical leader within the wider IT team.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and support cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure estates
- Review and document architecture, data flows, and technical designs
- Support the scaling of AWS infrastructure to enable AI and data-led initiatives
- Lead BCP / Disaster Recovery
planning and execution across cloud platforms
- Collaborate with security teams to ensure compliance, governance, and risk mitigation
- Drive automation using tools such as Terraform, PowerShell, ARM templates, and Azure CLI
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring engineers and acting as an escalation point
- Support CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code delivery via Azure DevOps
- Contribute to M&A technical assessments and integration of new environments
- Ensure platforms meet standards for security, availability, performance, and resilience
What We’re Looking For
Core Experience
- Strong hands-on experience in AWS (essential)
and Azure (desirable)
- Experience managing large-scale AWS environments
(multi-account, governed estates)
- Proven delivery in hybrid (cloud/on-prem)
and multi-cloud environments
Technical Skills
- AWS: EC2, S3, ECS/EKS, VPC, Transit Gateway, Load Balancers, Auto Scaling
- Azure: VMs, VNets, Storage, App Services, Entra ID, Load Balancing
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform (essential), reusable modules, Terraform Cloud
- Networking: DNS (Route 53), hybrid connectivity, multi-cloud networking
- Monitoring & Ops: CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics
Additional Strengths
- Experience with security, governance, and cost optimisation
in cloud environments
- Strong troubleshooting and incident management capability
- Strong stakeholder engagement and consultancy-style communication skills
Why Apply?
- Opportunity to work in a high-growth, technology-driven organisation
- Exposure to enterprise-scale cloud architecture and AI initiatives
- A collaborative, fast-paced environment with strong technical leadership
- Genuine opportunity to influence cloud strategy and best practice
- Flexible working approach supporting work/life balance
