Senior Cloud Engineer, Faculty

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 28 April 2026
LOCATION
London
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
SALARY
£120,000 / year
CATEGORY
Artificial Intelligence
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SKILLS

AWS Docker Kubernetes Python Terraform Azure CI/CD GitOps

FULL DESCRIPTION

Senior Cloud Engineer, [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk]

Company: [Employer hidden]

Location: London

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Type: Full-time

Experience Level: Mid-Senior level

Salary: £40k-£120k

About the Role

We're looking for a Cloud Engineer to build the backbone of applied artificial intelligence for our customers. You will design, build, and deploy robust, secure, and scalable cloud infrastructure that powers cutting-edge data and machine learning workflows. Working in a cross-functional team, you'll solve complex challenges and empower our data scientists and ML engineers to deploy their work effectively, shaping the future of AI solutions.

What the job involves

  • Building robust, secure, and scalable cloud infrastructure for AI and ML workflows
  • Partnering with technical and non-technical stakeholders, from initial idea generation through to implementation and shipping
  • Enabling Machine Learning Engineers and Data Scientists by contributing to internal best practices, standards, and reusable code repos
  • Proactively identifying and recommending new ways customers can leverage cloud infrastructure to solve their key challenges
  • Creating and maintaining reusable, company-wide libraries and infrastructure-as-code
  • Researching and integrating the best open-source technologies to enhance [Employer hidden]'s infrastructure capabilities

Who you are

  • You are pragmatic and outcome-focused, balancing the big picture with the details to execute complex projects in the real world
  • You think scientifically, always testing assumptions, seeking evidence, and looking for opportunities to improve how things are done
  • You have a drive to learn, constantly exploring new technologies and novel applications for existing tools
  • You possess deep experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and Infrastructure as Code, especially Terraform
  • You are experienced in building and deploying containerized solutions using Docker and Kubernetes, supported by strong CI/CD and GitOps practices
  • You possess proficient knowledge of Networking and Cloud Security
  • You excel at working directly with clients and stakeholders, confidently handling requirements gathering, technical planning, and scoping
  • If you don’t feel you meet all the requirements, but are excited by the role and know you bring some key strengths, please do apply

Application process

  • Talent Team Screen (30 minutes)
  • Pair Programming Interview (90 minutes)
  • System Design Interview (90 minutes)
  • Commercial Interview (60 minutes)

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