Cloud Operations Team Leader

Cloud Operations Team Leader

Department: Platform Engineering

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Milton Keynes

Compensation: £70,000 - £80,000 / year

Description

As the Cloud Operations Team Leader, you will be responsible for the day-to-day management of our cloud environment, ensuring performance, availability, and security. You'll lead a team of engineers, drive automation and governance best practices, and support the development teams through robust CI/CD infrastructure. This is a hands-on leadership role that balances strategic vision with technical execution.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day cloud operations, including monitoring, incident response, troubleshooting and optimisation
• Lead & manage both short & long term project planning (Agile, Sprints, Iteration Planning)
• Develop and implement cloud governance, security and compliance policies & procedures
• Drive automation and infrastructure-as-code improvements using Terraform and Ansible and an AI first approach.
• Collaborate with development teams to support CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of cloud cost optimisation strategies and monitoring tools (FinOps)
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Provide mentorship and professional development opportunities for cloud engineers

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• 3+ years of hands-on experience with AWS.
• Strong knowledge of IaC and configuration management tools
• Proven experience leading cross-functional teams and managing cloud infrastructure projects.
• Proficiency in cloud monitoring, alerting, and performance tuning.
• Solid understanding of cloud security, governance, and compliance best practices.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and supporting development workflows.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong knowledge of Terraform, Ansible, GitHub & Web Application Firewalls.

Benefits

Nice to have experience:

• SQL Server
• Windows Server
• Active Directory
• DNS
• Remote Desktop Services
• IIS / Nginx
• Linux Server
• IDS/IPS
• PowerShell & Bash
• Serverless technologies (AWS Lambda, Elastic Containers)
• Agentic and Generative AI especially applied to Infrastructure as Code (IAC)