- Company Name
- RedTech Recruitment
- Job Title
- Cloud Operations Team Leader
- Job Description
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Job title: Cloud Operations Team Leader
Role Summary: Lead daily operation and strategic management of a large-scale AWS cloud environment, combining hands‑on technical execution with leadership of cross‑functional cloud engineering teams. Drive automation, governance, and AI‑enabled Infrastructure as Code (IaC) while ensuring performance, availability, security, and cost optimisation.
Expectations:
- AWS‑centric, 3+ years hands‑on commercial experience.
- Proven team‑leadership and project management across cloud infrastructure initiatives.
- Expertise in IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible) and configuration management.
- Strong grasp of cloud governance, security, compliance, FinOps, and monitoring.
- Experience supporting CI/CD pipelines and development workflows.
Key Responsibilities:
- Oversee day‑to‑day cloud operations: monitoring, incident response, troubleshooting, optimisation.
- Plan and execute short‑ and long‑term projects in an Agile environment.
- Develop and enforce cloud governance, security and compliance policies.
- Drive IaC automation, incorporating AI where feasible.
- Collaborate with development teams to enhance CI/CD pipelines.
- Monitor performance and implement cost‑optimisation strategies.
- Mentor and coach cloud engineers, fostering professional growth.
Required Skills:
- AWS fundamentals and advanced services (EC2, RDS, Lambda, ECS/EKS, CloudWatch, etc.).
- IaC proficiency with Terraform and Ansible.
- Configuration management (PowerShell, Bash).
- Cloud governance, security, compliance best practices.
- FinOps / cost optimisation.
- Monitoring & alerting tools.
- CI/CD pipeline integration (GitHub/GitLab/Jenkins).
- Leadership, communication, stakeholder management.
- Knowledge of Windows/Active Directory, Linux, SQL Server, DNS, IIS/Nginx, serverless, IDS/IPS appreciated.
Required Education & Certifications:
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field (preferred).
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect or equivalent cloud certification (preferred).
Milton keynes, United kingdom
Hybrid
Junior
29-01-2026