Senior Cloud Engineer

Base Location: You'll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in one of the following locations :
Reading or Havant

Salary: £59,800 - £89,800 + performance-related bonus and a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.

Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available

The role

As a Senior Cloud Engineer within Digital Services, you will play an engaging, pivotal role throughout the full solution lifecycle. Collaborating closely with the wider Renewables Digital team and partner organisations, you will guide, advise, and, when needed, immerse yourself within delivery teams to thoughtfully design and build cloud-native solutions. You will nurture the quality of deliverables, take ownership in overcoming challenges, and help sustain positive momentum within the team.

Your remit will include championing our established cloud framework and tooling, ensuring these are clearly understood and embraced across the team. By encouraging openness, alignment, and the adoption of best practices, you will help foster efficiency and predictability in delivery.

You will

• Provide empathetic leadership in Dev Ops practices, offering supportive guidance, best-practice expertise, and hands-on Azure/AWS experience to uplift capability and ensure teams feel empowered to use the right tools and ways of working for successful delivery.
• Reduce risk by encouraging robust validation and verification of technical outputs, working collaboratively with QA, testing, and security assurance to uphold high standards and protect the business during periods of change.
• Adapt confidently across a variety of delivery contexts, remaining focused on positive outcomes. Teamwork, collaboration, and a sense of shared accountability for end-to-end delivery—including interfaces with wider IT—are at the heart of your approach.
• Champion continuous improvement across teams, services, and solutions, nurturing opportunities to streamline delivery, enhance tooling, and introduce efficiencies. A positive attitude towards innovation, embracing new ideas, and learning from setbacks is key.
• Play an active and supportive role in early-stage discovery and planning, contributing to showcases, proofs of concept, requirements gathering and validation. Collaborate with product owners to shape backlogs and provide thoughtful effort estimates to support prioritisation and forward planning.

You have

• Proven experience leading a team in the design, delivery, and ongoing support of cloud-based (Azure/AWS) solutions, backed by relevant certifications and hands-on experience as a practitioner.
• A strong working knowledge of CI/CD practices, including practical experience using Azure Dev Ops or similar tooling, and a track record of successful cloud delivery outcomes.
• Broad technical capability across modern technologies, enabling you to offer guidance, contribute to effective decision-making, and support others throughout the end-to-end solution lifecycle.
• A strong sense of responsibility and accountability, with the confidence to step up and take ownership of outcomes. You are pragmatic and delivery-focused, valuing results while remaining flexible and adaptable in your approach.
• A collaborative, approachable, and inclusive team player, comfortable working within a matrix organisation, willing to step into whatever role is needed for collective success, and able to constructively challenge the status quo to drive positive change.

About SSE

SSE’s purpose is to provide energy needed today while building a better world of energy for tomorrow. We do this by developing, building, operating and investing in electricity infrastructure and businesses needed in the energy transition. Our Transforming for Growth investment plan sees us investing £33bn in critical electricity infrastructure across the five years to 2030.

Our IT division powers growth across all SSE business areas by making sure we have the systems, software and security needed to take the lead in a low carbon world. They provide expertise, advice and day-to-day support in emerging technologies, data and analytics, cyber security and more.

Flexible benefits to fit your…