Senior Cloud Engineer; GCP

About The Role And Team

You will be helping define and shape the Cloud Engineering capability of Create Future. As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you’re someone who is confident in consulting and helping clients find the best possible solution – with that "right tool for the job" mindset.

We work with cloud‑native platforms from build‑out through large‑scale migrations across all three major cloud service providers: AWS, Azure and GCP. Depending on the client, you may work with agile teams or solo. Your role is highly valued and you will be a key player in ensuring project success.

Our Engineering team at Create Future drives forward technology strategies, contributes to planning sessions, and maps out delivery roadmaps.

• Terraform, CDK or Cloud Formation
• Ansible, Chef or Puppet
• Jenkins, Git Hub Actions or Git Lab Pipeline
• AWS

• Providing advice and guidance to your team and clients on cloud technologies
• Implementing Infrastructure as Code
• Providing configuration management
• Building pipelines including blue/green deployments and automating where required
• Implementing security by design when coding via IAC and building a pipeline
• Advising on integrations into other systems, whether on‑premises or other cloud platforms
• Creating documentation for client understanding
• Assisting the cloud team in building standard solutions we can offer our clients

• You have previously helped external clients or internal teams reach their technical goals
• You are experienced with developing platforms using AWS
• You actively promote engineering best practices, clean code and unit testing
• You facilitate and encourage knowledge sharing within your team and across the wider Engineering department

At Create Future, we challenge ourselves to go beyond the obvious and care deeply about our craft and customers. You’ll have ambitious projects, plenty of learning opportunities, and be part of a safe, supportive and friendly culture that looks after you.

As this is a hybrid role we’re looking for people within a commuting distance of our hub locations (Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester or London) who are flexible to travel to client sites and Create Future regional offices. We trust you to manage your own schedule to balance face‑to‑face time with clients, colleagues and working from home.

• Total 35 days holiday (with flexible bank holidays)
• Comprehensive private medical insurance
• Enhanced parental and adoption leave
• Pension – matched up to 5%

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

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