Cloud Technical Specialist

Job Description

Rate – £550 / £575

Duration – 5 Months

Location – Glasgow, hybrid (Best to be based in Glasgow)

This is a hands on role

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Technical Cloud Specialist to work closely with our client in Scotland and our nearshore Cloud Managed Services team in Spain.

This is a senior technical role combining cloud architecture, hands on engineering and technical leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement and support cloud infrastructure and platform solutions.
• Contribute directly to engineering activities across cloud projects and managed service initiatives.
• Translate technical requirements into appropriate cloud architecture and implementation approaches.
• Review designs and technical changes to ensure they are secure, scalable, supportable and aligned with client standards.
• Act as a local technical point of contact for the client, including technical product owners, engineering teams and Centres of Excellence.
• Provide technical leadership to remote and nearshore engineering teams.
• Act as an Engineering Lane Lead for one or more technology or platform areas.

Skills and Experience Essential

• Strong experience as a Cloud Architect, Senior Cloud Engineer, Platform Engineer or similar senior technical role.
• Strong hands on experience with at least one major cloud platform, ideally AWS or Microsoft Azure.
• Broad understanding of cloud infrastructure architecture and engineering.
• Experience designing and implementing cloud solutions in enterprise environments.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience, particularly Terraform.
• Experience with CI/CD and automation tooling, ideally including GitHub Actions.
• Knowledge of monitoring, alerting and observability approaches.
• Ability to understand and work across networking, identity, security, compute, storage and cloud platform services.
• Experience providing technical leadership or mentoring to engineering teams.