Technical Consultant- Cloud Operations

About The Opportunity

Job Type: Permanent

Final date to receive applications: 30 June 2026

Title:

Technical Consultant
- Cloud Operations

Department:
Enterprise Engineering

Location:

Kingswood, UK

Reports To:

Associate Director – Cloud Ops

Level: 5

As Fidelity International we’re proud to have been helping our clients build better financial futures for over 50 years. How have we achieved this? By working together – and supporting each other – all over the world. So, join our team and feel like you’re part of something bigger.

We are a platform engineering team distributed across three regions, building Fidelity’s internal developer platform – AWS. Everyone contributes to both development and operations of the platform, working iteratively in Kanban. We follow Extreme Programming practices closely. Pairing, working in the open and shared ownership are standard. All code is peer reviewed and no part of the platform belongs to a single individual.

Engineers are expected to collaborate deeply, challenge ideas constructively and continuously improve how we work.

We provide AWS landing zones as a developer platform to application teams. It provides isolated environments to the workload teams that are in their full control. Our responsibility lies in ensuring right baseline security and networking controls to be implemented and maintained as the guardrail for workload developers and operations.

The primary devtools for the team includes AWS, Python, Terraform, Git, Shell Scripting, Linux, Core Networking and RBAC. Our goal is to deliver high quality, secure, reliable and scalable platform that contributes to FIL’s success.

The person will be responsible for engineering & supporting the Fidelity AWS Core Cloud Services and the long-term ownership of their strategic development  a member of a global extreme agile programming team aligned to the AWS Cloud Product Owner, you will offer best practice trusted advisor consultancy to enable effective adoption of AWS services whilst ensuring quality MVP deliverables for a robust, automated and innovative evolving Production service within this cloud enablement group.

The engineer will be expected to implement quality-based solutions, looking for opportunities to collaborate with all FIL teams, especially other peer Developer Platform SMEs, Infrastructure Architects & Delivery contacts in support of the Product roadmap taking using agreed patterns. The candidate will play a key role in showcasing the cloud capabilities of the AWS core services available to FIL developers & application Product Owners whilst being fully hands on to program, identify & resolve technical issues & continually improve the quality innovation of the team.

• Technical engineer with responsibility of delivering secure, automated, self‑serviced, innovative & cost‑efficient core services reliably and repeatedly into AWS using extreme programming methodologies aligned to the strategic roadmap set by the AWS Cloud Product Owner.
• Enable customers to understand & use the services in the most effective way to realise business benefit quickly using all means possible supported through a global operating engineering product model.
• Show courage of conviction to evangelise change within the FIL Delivery & Infrastructure teams through collaboration and empathy, driven from a position of trust, patience & knowledge. Identify new improvements / requirements on cloud, propose solutions and agree with the core team, ensuring alignment with the AWS Product Owner strategy.
• Actively coach & support other team members through pairing, encouraging an open collaborative working culture within & outside the team.
• Illustrate a sound technical understanding of all cloud‑based technologies, both from an infrastructure & development perspective ensuring practical experience can substantiate this understanding to benefit influencing others to adopt cloud.

• A strong development & infrastructure engineering background with hands on experience of technologies across AWS cloud provider, focusing on delivering services that are loosely coupled, highly scalable & codes to cope…