Public Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Public Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Salary: £70,929 - £78,810
Location: Halifax or Leeds
Hours: Full-time
Working Pattern: Hybrid - spend at least two days per week (or 40% of your time) at one of the locations above.

We're modernising with cloud - creating a platform that's quick, secure and resilient for customers, and easy, modern and sustainable for developers. Our core technology focus is on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

As a Public Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
, you'll design, build and operate secure, automated cloud platform capabilities that enable product teams to deliver API-first services at pace and with confidence. You'll balance deep technical work with coaching others to raise the bar on reliability, security and simplicity.

You’ll also take part in an on‑call rotation.

• Design, build and operate platform capabilities using Infrastructure‑as‑Code and modern CI/CD.
• Partner with architecture and feature teams to evolve our cloud roadmap and platform products.
• Embed a secure‑by‑design mindset and controls from design to runtime, safeguarding colleagues and customers.
• Define and operate against SLOs/SLIs; implement actionable observability, performance tuning and automation to reduce toil.
• Enable API‑first delivery with reusable patterns and golden paths for API producers/consumers; contribute to documentation and enablement.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to communities of practice, upholding Platform Engineering standards expected at Band
  
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• Proven experience delivering large‑scale systems with performance, availability and fault‑tolerance; experience setting SLOs/SLIs.
• Infrastructure‑as‑Code with Terraform (minimum) and one or more modern CI/CD systems (Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub Actions, Harness, Jenkins or Spinnaker).
• Containers & orchestration (Kubernetes) and service‑mesh patterns (e.g., Istio).
• API design and security (REST/OpenAPI, auth
  
  N/Z, mTLS and certificate lifecycle).
• Scripting in Bash, Power Shell or Python.

• Azure: ARM/Bicep/Template Spec, AKS, Application Gateway, API Management (policies/C# basics), Azure Storage.
• GCP: GKE, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud Armor, Istio, Cloud Monitoring/Stackdriver, Jenkins, Apigee (nice to have).

• Harness experience in CI/CD, Hashi Corp Vault, Dynatrace, Docker/buildah, NodeJS for API tooling, relevant Azure or GCP certifications.

• Delivered hybrid‑cloud, automated platforms in agile teams; collaborate across architecture and business stakeholders.
• Technology‑agnostic mindset; choose the best tool for the job and stay curious.
• Enjoy mentoring and raising the engineering bar as a hands‑on player‑coach.

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
• Annual performance‑related bonus.
• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays.
• Flexible benefits including discounted products and services.
• Share schemes and access to wellbeing support.

We're committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone can be themselves and thrive. We value diversity of thought, background and experience, and we actively encourage applications from all communities. If you need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.