Cloud Engineer

We are seeking a Cloud Engineer to design, build, and maintain the cloud infrastructure that supports our IoT and analytics platforms. You'll be responsible for ensuring that our systems are scalable, secure, and reliable
, working closely with data, software, and Dev Ops teams to deliver a smooth, automated environment for deployment and monitoring.

• Infrastructure & Automation: Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure (AWS / Azure / GCP), automate provisioning using IaC tools (Terraform, Cloud Formation, or similar), manage container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS, or Docker), build CI/CD pipelines.
• Security & Compliance: Implement security best practices (IAM, secrets management, encryption), support compliance initiatives (ISO 27001, NIST, GDPR, MCERTS, etc.), manage network configuration, firewalls, and secure endpoints.
• Monitoring & Reliability: Set up observability and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Cloud Watch), ensure high availability, scalability, and cost efficiency, define SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, troubleshoot production issues and coordinate incident response.
• Collaboration: Work with data engineers and developers to optimise pipelines and APIs, collaborate with firmware/IoT teams on secure device integration and telemetry ingestion, contribute to architectural reviews and platform evolution planning, support onboarding of new systems, environments, and services.

• Skills & Experience Required:
  • 3+ years of experience in cloud platform or Dev Ops engineering.
  • Strong proficiency with AWS (preferred) or Azure / GCP, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD tools, Linux administration, and scripting (Python, Bash, Power Shell).
• Soft Skills:
  • Strong analytical and troubleshooting ability.
  • Clear communication across technical and non‑technical audiences.
  • Proactive, collaborative mindset – "you build it, you run it" philosophy.
  • Ability to manage competing priorities in a dynamic environment.
• Desirable
  
  Experience:
  
  
  • Exposure to IoT data ingestion and stream processing (MQTT, Kafka, Kinesis).
  • Familiarity with data lake / analytics environments (S3, Athena, Snowflake, Big Query).
  • Experience with security frameworks (CIS Benchmarks, NIST, SOC2).
  • Previous work in regulated industries (water, utilities, energy, or environmental monitoring).
  • Certification: AWS Certified Sys Ops Administrator / Dev Ops Engineer or equivalent.

• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay and leave.
• Company pension.
• Life assurance scheme (x4 salary).
• Medicash Plan (includes cash payments towards dental, medical, therapeutic treatments) with the option to add up to 4 dependants.
• Refer a friend scheme.
• Employee assistance programme (access to GP appointments and mental health support).
• Competitive annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Training and career progression opportunities.

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Adler and Allan are committed to fostering diversity and inclusion in our workplace. We proudly embrace equal opportunities for all applicants, regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin. If you require any support with your application, whatever the circumstance, please let us know.