Senior AWS Cloud Engineer – Platform & DevOps Leader

Unite Foundation; Bristol; On-site; GBP 100,000 - GBP 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading student accommodation provider is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer with a focus on AWS to join their IT Operations team in Bristol. This role involves designing, building, and operating AWS infrastructure, leading DevOps practices, and supporting development teams. It offers a great opportunity to influence cloud standards and improve platform reliability. Along with a competitive salary, the position includes a discretionary bonus, generous holidays, and comprehensive benefits to support employee wellbeing.

Benefits

Annual discretionary bonus

25 days paid holiday

Generous pension scheme

Healthcare Cash Plan

Enhanced Family Leave

Annual ShareSave scheme

Qualifications

• Significant experience working as a Cloud or Platform Engineer
• Proven hands-on experience designing and operating AWS services
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation tools
• Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines
• Ability to influence technical decisions and promote best practices

Responsibilities

• Act as a senior technical authority for AWS-based platforms and services
• Design, build, and operate secure AWS infrastructure using automation
• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling
• Provide hands-on support and guidance to development teams
• Lead monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational tooling implementation

Skills

AWS Services (EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS, S3, Lambda)

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible)

CI/CD pipelines

Agile methodologies

Troubleshooting cloud infrastructure

Clear communication

Job description

A leading student accommodation provider is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer with a focus on AWS to join their IT Operations team in Bristol. This role involves designing, building, and operating AWS infrastructure, leading DevOps practices, and supporting development teams. It offers a great opportunity to influence cloud standards and improve platform reliability. Along with a competitive salary, the position includes a discretionary bonus, generous holidays, and comprehensive benefits to support employee wellbeing.