Senior Cloud Engineer

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-- Reporting to the Head of IT Cloud & Hosting Services, EU & RoW, the Senior Cloud & Hosting Engineer is responsible for the design, implementation, operation, and continuous evolution of secure, scalable, and resilient cloud and hosting platforms across Europe and Rest of World markets.

As the senior engineer for Cloud & Hosting services, the role provides deep expertise across Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP), alongside traditional hosting technologies including colocation (Colo), virtualisation, compute, storage, backup, disaster recovery, and hybrid infrastructure solutions.

The role is accountable for leading, implementing and maintaining the technical standards, architectures, and engineering practices that underpin the Cloud & Hosting platform. This includes driving automation through Infrastructure as Code (IaC), configuration management, and platform engineering principles to deliver secure, repeatable, compliant, and cost-effective infrastructure at scale.

Working closely with Group Security, Global Networks, Enterprise Architecture, and regional technology teams, the Senior Cloud & Hosting Engineer ensures cloud and hosting services are secure by design, highly available, operationally resilient, and aligned to enterprise governance, security, and compliance requirements.

The role also provides technical leadership across cloud networking, identity and access management, encryption, connectivity, observability, platform resilience, and operational excellence.

As the senior engineer within the Cloud & Hosting domain, the role evaluates emerging technologies, defines the strategic technical direction for the Cloud Engineering capability, owns engineering standards and reference architectures, and is accountable for recommending the cloud platform roadmap and technology investments.

The role is the primary technical decision-maker for Cloud Engineering, operating within enterprise governance and collaborating with the Cloud & Hosting Solutions Architect, Cloud & Hosting TDA, Head of Cloud & Hosting Services, Head of Infrastructure & Services and Group Technology stakeholders to ensure alignment with wider business strategy.

Operating within a high-performing engineering team, the Senior Cloud & Hosting Engineer partners with regional IT leaders, managed service providers, and Group Technology colleagues to modernise the hosting estate, increase platform maturity, improve service reliability, optimise operational costs, and drive continuous improvement across cloud and hosting capabilities within Europe and ROW.

Cloud Platform Architecture & Engineering Design, implement, and continuously improve secure, scalable, and resilient cloud and hosting platforms across Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Develop and maintain reference architectures, engineering standards, and reusable platform patterns that enable consistent deployment across Europe and RoW markets.

Design and support hybrid infrastructure incorporating public cloud, private cloud, colocation (Colo), virtualisation platforms, and traditional hosting environments.

Engineer highly available and resilient platform services including compute, storage, backup, disaster recovery, identity, networking, and platform management capabilities.

Ensure cloud platforms are designed for operational…