Cloud Engineer
Hybrid
England, United Kingdom
£ 110,000 / year
Full Time
16-01-2025
Job Specifications
Cloud Engineer
Remote (UK only)
Up to £110,000 +ISO options from day 1
**ideally you'll possess a degree in Computer Science / Mathematics (or similar) from a top university and worked for an AI native or AI focussed business.
Better Placed Tech has partnered with a Microsoft backed AI business that has exited stealth mode and is building next-gen LLMs. They were founded in Silicon valley and with another funding round in 2025 they are now looking to grow out their UK based team.
The founding team is composed of industry leaders and innovators taken from some of the best-known tech businesses and educational institutions on the globe. They’re working on cutting edge technologies that are revolutionizing the AI landscape. Now is the time for an experienced Cloud Engineer to come on board and really own their cloud and infrastructure.
This role is fully remote, but it would be good if you are open to travelling to Silicon Valley 1-2 times per year for collaboration.
The Job
You’ll be a talented, motivated Cloud Engineer with several years of experience in multi-cloud environments. As a key UK hire you will lead on architecture, improvements and managing of their cloud infrastructure.
Required Skills and Experience:
• 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, some AI start up experience on top would be excellent
• Experience with cloud native applications and microservice architecture
• Hands-on experience with IaC (Terraform, Cloudformation) and platform control
planes (Kubernetes API and Operators)
• Experience of working in multi-cloud environments. Mainly AWS with some Azure and GCP. Knolwedge of services like EC2 and Sagemaker would be advantageous
• Hands-on experience building internal and edge network infrastructure in cloud
environments
• Hands-on experience with Container Orchestration platforms like ECS or Kubernetes, as well as service mesh (Istio, Envoy, etc.)
• Experience with edge/CDN networking products (Cloudflare, Cloudfront, Fastly, etc.)
Day to Day
• Work directly with the engineering and research leaders in the US and UK to assess
optimal cloud solutions
• Architect and manage cloud-based infrastructure on AWS, Azure, and GCP
leveraging services like EC2, S3, Sagemaker, Vertex etc
• Ensure efficient data storage, processing, and security policies
• Identify, analyse, and fix weak points in cloud infrastructure and deployment issues
• Leverage infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform and Ansible to automate
provisioning, configuration, and deployment of infrastructure resources
• Assist in building robust backend services and APIs using Python (Django, Flask, or FastAPI) to power infrastructure operations and integrations
• Design and implement efficient CI/CD pipelines using tools like Gitlab CI/CD to
streamline software delivery and infrastructure provisioning
• Focus on design and implementation of software defined networks, cloud landing zones
and VPCs, cloud security, application and network firewalls.
This is a truly unique opportunity to work with some of the brightest minds in the industry on a ground-breaking AI project, for a confidential discussion please apply with an up to date CV.
About the Company
Better Placed is undoubtedly one of the UK’s leading, Employee Owned Recruitment specialists! There is a reason why we are one of the Sunday Times Top 10 small companies to work for and it is undeniably down to our people! We are a values driven consultancy specialising in both Permanent and Interim recruitment across Digital, E-Commerce, Marketing, Sales and Tech for some of the UK’s most sought after employers. Housing some very well networked and experienced recruiters we are always “better placed” to find talent for clie... Know more
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