Cloud Operations Team Leader
Company
Location
Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
4/25/2025
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Description
Department: Platform Engineering
Location: Milton Keynes
Compensation: £70,000 - £80,000 / year
Description
As the Cloud Operations Team Leader, you will be responsible for the day-to-day management of our cloud environment, ensuring performance, availability, and security. You’ll lead a team of engineers, drive automation and governance best practices, and support the development teams through robust CI/CD infrastructure. This is a hands-on leadership role that balances strategic vision with technical execution.
Key Responsibilities
Nice to have experience:
Location: Milton Keynes
Compensation: £70,000 - £80,000 / year
Description
As the Cloud Operations Team Leader, you will be responsible for the day-to-day management of our cloud environment, ensuring performance, availability, and security. You’ll lead a team of engineers, drive automation and governance best practices, and support the development teams through robust CI/CD infrastructure. This is a hands-on leadership role that balances strategic vision with technical execution.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee day-to-day cloud operations, including monitoring, incident response, troubleshooting and optimisation
- Lead & manage both short & long term project planning (Agile, Sprints, Iteration Planning)
- Develop and implement cloud governance, security and compliance policies & procedures
- 3+ years of experience in at least one cloud platform (AWS)
- Drive automation and infrastructure-as-code improvements using Terraform and Ansible and an AI first approach.
- Collaborate with development teams to support CI/CD pipelines.
- Knowledge of cloud cost optimisation strategies and monitoring tools (FinOps)
- Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Provide mentorship and professional development opportunities for cloud engineers
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with AWS.
- Strong knowledge of IaC and configuration management tools
- Proven experience leading cross-functional teams and managing cloud infrastructure projects.
- Proficiency in cloud monitoring, alerting, and performance tuning.
- Solid understanding of cloud security, governance, and compliance best practices.
- Experience with CI/CD tools and supporting development workflows.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong knowledge of Terraform, Ansible, GitHub & Web Application Firewalls.
Nice to have experience:
- SQL Server
- Windows Server
- Active Directory
- DNS
- Remote Desktop Services
- IIS / Nginx
- Linux Server
- IDS/IPS
- PowerShell & Bash
- Serverless technologies (AWS Lambda, Elastic Containers)
- Agentic and Generative AI especially applied to Infrastructure as Code (IAC)
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