Senior Cloud Engineer - Banking

Do you want to work for a leading UK Bank?

We’re partnering with a well-established financial services organisation to appoint a Senior Cloud Engineer into a hands-on Cloud Operations team. This is an opportunity to join a mature cloud environment where AWS is central to the organisation’s modernisation strategy.

You’ll play a key role in the design, build and ongoing operation of secure, scalable AWS infrastructure, ensuring reliability, automation and operational excellence across mission-critical banking systems.

If you’re an experienced cloud engineer who enjoys owning infrastructure end-to-end and operating in a highly regulated environment where quality matters, this role will give you both impact and stability.

As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will sit within a hands-on Cloud Operations function responsible for the engineering and support of AWS infrastructure across the business.

This is not a purely architectural role. You will design, build, automate and operate cloud environments while ensuring performance, resilience and security standards are maintained in line with financial services requirements.

You’ll collaborate with engineering, security, DevOps and change teams to deliver infrastructure that supports critical banking applications and services.

Interested in learning more?  Get in touch today! 

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure across compute, storage, networking and security domains
• Support and operate production cloud environments, ensuring high availability and resilience
• Respond to cloud incidents, conduct root cause analysis and implement long-term preventative fixes
• Build and manage infrastructure using Terraform (Infrastructure as Code)
• Configure and optimise monitoring and alerting solutions such as CloudWatch to track performance and utilisation
• Drive automation and continuous improvement within the cloud estate
• Work closely with cross-functional technical teams and clearly communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Ensure adherence to cloud security best practices and regulatory standards within a banking environment

Skills and Experience

• 5+ years of end-to-end cloud engineering experience
• Strong hands-on AWS expertise including services such as EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM and Lambda
• Proven Terraform experience (essential)
• Solid understanding of AWS security best practices
• Experience working in structured, change-controlled environments
• Strong troubleshooting and incident management capability
• Ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams

Desirable

• AWS certifications
• Exposure to Jenkins or CI/CD tooling
• Previous experience within banking or financial services

Salary and Benefits

• Up to £90,000 depending on experience
• Hybrid working model (1 day per week onsite in London)
• Opportunity to work within a stable, regulated environment supporting critical national banking infrastructure
• Clear visibility and impact within a cloud-first transformation programme