Job Description

Cloud Platform Consultant
Permanent
Location: Home / Birmingham (1 / 2 days a week)
Salary: £70,000 - £80,000 (+ benefits)
Skills: AWS, Azure, OpenShift, Red Hat, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes

We’re looking for a hands-on Cloud Platform Consultant to join a growing technical consultancy delivering secure cloud and infrastructure solutions across customer environments.

This is a role for someone who enjoys both design and implementation. You will work closely with customers and internal technical teams to design, build and support cloud platforms, automation frameworks and modern infrastructure environments.

The role would suit an experienced Cloud / Platform / Infrastructure Engineer who is looking to move further towards architecture, while remaining technically hands-on.

What you’ll be doing

• Designing and building secure cloud platform environments, with a strong focus on AWS
• Supporting cloud implementation projects across AWS and Azure
• Working with Red Hat Linux and OpenShift cluster environments
• Building and automating infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible
• Supporting containerised platforms using Kubernetes / OpenShift
• Producing technical designs, documentation and architecture artefacts
• Working with customers to understand requirements and shape practical solutions
• Building out architecture frameworks and reusable delivery approaches
• Supporting test, development and internal platform environments
• Troubleshooting cloud, Linux, container and automation issues
• Working across 1–2 customer projects at a time

What we’re looking for

• Strong hands-on experience across cloud infrastructure / platform engineering
• Good AWS experience, ideally including secure infrastructure design and build
• Azure experience would also be useful
• Strong Linux background, ideally Red Hat
• Experience with OpenShift and/or Kubernetes
• Infrastructure as Code experience, particularly Terraform
• Automation/configuration management experience, ideally Ansible
• Comfortable producing technical documentation and design material
• Able to work in a customer-facing consultancy environment
• Happy to remain hands-on while also contributing to architecture and solution design
• Good communication skills and the ability to work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Useful experience

• Previous consultancy or client-facing project experience
• Secure / regulated environment experience
• MOD, defence, public sector or SC-cleared project experience
• CI/CD tooling such as GitLab, Jenkins or similar
• Monitoring tools such as CloudWatch, Grafana or similar
• CloudFormation or other IaC tooling
• Windows Server exposure alongside Linux
• Knowledge of IAM, networking, VPNs, certificates, resilience and security best practice