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Cloud Engineer

Spectrum IT Recruitment
Southampton, United Kingdom
3 days ago
£55,000 – £65,000 pa

Salary

£55,000 – £65,000 pa

Job Type
Permanent
Work Pattern
Flexible
Work Location
Hybrid
Seniority
Mid
Education
Degree
Posted
28 May 2026 (3 days ago)

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays Pension Healthcare scheme Death in service Employee Assistance Programme Paid volunteering day EV car scheme Free onsite gym Career development opportunities
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Cloud infrastructure in a regulated software environment has to be secure, resilient and built properly from the start.

This is a hands-on Cloud Engineer role working across AWS, Azure and Terraform, supporting customer-critical software used within the energy and utilities sector.

Cloud Engineer, AWS and Azure
Salary: £65,000 + bonus and benefits
Location: Within two hours of Southampton
Office: Twice per month near Southampton

You'll join an established software business that builds process automation products for the energy and utilities market. The work is focused on building, improving and maintaining cloud platforms that need to be reliable, secure and observable.

The role will suit someone with strong AWS experience, good Azure knowledge and proven Terraform experience. You do not need to have used every tool in the environment, but you should be comfortable working with production cloud infrastructure and modern deployment practices.

What you'll be doing

  • You'll design, deploy and manage cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure.
  • You'll use Terraform to automate and standardise infrastructure delivery.
  • You'll support the migration and modernisation of traditional infrastructure into cloud services.
  • You'll improve monitoring, observability, security and resilience across cloud platforms.
  • You'll work with engineering, infrastructure and business teams to turn requirements into practical cloud solutions.
  • You'll contribute to CI/CD, automation and operational best practice across the cloud estate.

Technical environment

AWS, Azure, Terraform, Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, PowerShell, Azure CLI, Docker, Datadog, Grafana Cloud, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, Prometheus and Loki.

What we're looking for

Essential:

  • Strong AWS cloud engineering experience
  • Good Azure experience
  • Terraform experience
  • Experience supporting production cloud environments
  • Understanding of secure, resilient and monitored infrastructure
  • Exposure to automation, CI/CD or deployment tooling
  • Ability to work with technical teams and wider stakeholders

Useful:

  • Cloud migration experience
  • Azure DevOps and YAML pipelines
  • PowerShell, Python or Bash scripting
  • Docker or containerised environments
  • Monitoring and observability tooling
  • Experience in regulated or customer-critical environments

Why apply?

This is a good opportunity for a Cloud Engineer who wants to work on meaningful cloud infrastructure in a business where reliability, security and quality matter.

You'll be working on established software platforms used by real customers in the energy and utilities sector, with a balance of hands-on engineering, automation, cloud improvement and technical problem solving.

Benefits

Salary of£65,000 plus bonus, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, pension, healthcare scheme, death in service, Employee Assistance Programme, paid volunteering day, EV car scheme, free onsite gym and career development opportunities.

Interested?

Apply now or contact Ruby Calver at Spectrum IT Recruitment for an initial conversation.

Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

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