Senior Cloud Software Engineer

Location: Moodiesburn

Why join S4C? At S4C, we are passionate about creating a positive, energetic and inclusive working environment that reflects our core values:
At your best, Proud of S4C, Celebrate all, Go for it. This is an exciting time to join our team as we continue to foster a culture of work that puts people at the heart of the organisation and at a crucial time in S4C's history as we implement our new strategy, S4C - More than a TV channel , and as we implement the 2030 strategy.

We are looking for an organised, reliable, hardworking and enthusiastic individual who live to our core values to join our Team. Job Overview

This role offers a great opportunity for a Senior Platform Engineer who will play a central role in building, maintaining, and improving the infrastructure that underpins S4C's digital services. With a strong focus on AWS, you will work across platform reliability, deployment pipelines, observability, security, partner integrations, and income-generating platform capabilities, supporting the Lead Solutions Architect in delivering a secure, stable, scalable, and cost-effective platform estate that enables S4C's Digital First ambitions.

As S4C continues its transformation into a multi-platform content publisher, digital systems, workflow and content management are at the heart of everything we do within the Product Development Team. You will report to the Lead Solutions Architect within S4C's Corporate department / Product Development Team. Other details

Location:

Cardiff / Carmarthen / Caernarfon (minimum 2 days in office) Salary: £62,500.00 per annum Agreement:
Permanent

Working hours:

35.75 per week. Due to the nature of the job, flexibility, including working outside office hours, is expected on some weekends and bank holidays. Probationary period: 3 months Holidays:
In addition to the statutory bank holiday, you will be entitled to 26 days of holiday. If you are employed part-time you will receive a pro rata portion of the leave. Pension:
Salaried staff are entitled to joining a Group Personal Pension Scheme is subject to the terms of any scheme in existence as amended from time to time. If you are a member of the Group Personal Pension Scheme, S4C will contribute 10% of your basic salary to the Scheme. You are expected to contribute 5%. Travel:
Occasional travel will be part of the job, usually within the United Kingdom Applications Applications should be sent by 5pm on Friday 13 November 2026 directly to Poblru We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a sufficient number of applications are received. Early application is advised. Interview Date :
To be confirmed but likely to be held after w/c 23rd November 2026 We do not accept CVs. An application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English. As a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer you will be responsible for: AWS and infrastructure
• Designing, building, and maintaining AWS infrastructure across S4C's digital estate, applying best practices in scalability, cost efficiency, resilience, and security.
• Developing and maintaining infrastructure-as-code to support repeatable, version-controlled, and auditable platform management.
• Identifying and implementing cost optimisation and capacity planning improvements across AWS services and tooling.
• Contributing to the cloud and platform engineering roadmap, bringing technical input on infrastructure improvements, debt reduction, and new capabilities.
• Keeping abreast of AWS developments and evaluating new services or approaches that could benefit S4C's platform. Platform reliability and operations
• Supporting platform reliability, performance, and availability across S4C's digital services, including S4C Clic, the S4C…