Cloud Platform Consultant

Location:
Home / Birmingham (1 / 2 days a week)

We're looking for a hands‑on Cloud Platform Consultant to join a growing technical consultancy delivering secure cloud and infrastructure solutions across customer environments.

This is a role for someone who enjoys both design and implementation
. You will work closely with customers and internal technical teams to design, build and support cloud platforms, automation frameworks and modern infrastructure environments.

The role would suit an experienced Cloud / Platform / Infrastructure Engineer who is looking to move further towards architecture, while remaining technically hands‑on.

• Designing and building secure cloud platform environments, with a strong focus on AWS
• Supporting cloud implementation projects across AWS and Azure
• Working with Red Hat Linux and Open Shift cluster environments
• Building and automating infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible
• Producing technical designs, documentation and architecture artefacts
• Working with customers to understand requirements and shape practical solutions
• Building out architecture frameworks and reusable delivery approaches
• Supporting test, development and internal platform environments
• Troubleshooting cloud, Linux, container and automation issues
  
  Working across 1-2 customer projects at a time

• Strong hands‑on experience across cloud infrastructure / platform engineering
• Good AWS experience, ideally including secure infrastructure design and build
• Azure experience would also be useful
• Strong Linux background, ideally Red H​at
• Experience with Open Shift and/or Kubernetes
• Infrastructure as Code experience, particularly Terraform
• Automation/configuration management experience, ideally Ansible
• Comfortable producing technical documentation and design material
• Able to work in a customer‑facing consultancy environment
• Happy to remain hands‑on while also contributing to architecture and solution design
• Good communication skills and the ability to work with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders

• Previous consultancy or client‑facing project experience
• Secure / regulated environment experience
• MOD, defence, public sector or SC‑cleared project experience
• CI/CD tooling such as Git Lab, Jenkins or similar
• Monitoring tools such as Cloud Watch, Grafana or similar
• Cloud Formation or other IaC tooling
• Knowledge of IAM, networking, VPNs, certificates, resilience and security best practice