Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer

Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer

Permanent | Hybrid (flexible) | Up to £50,000

At Target Group, we build secure, scalable technology that powers critical services — and we’re looking for a Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer to help lead the next phase of our cloud and platform journey. This is an exciting opportunity for a hands-on technical leader who thrives in AWS, DevOps automation, cloud networking and security. If you enjoy shaping engineering standards, mentoring others and building resilient platforms that enable modern delivery at scale, we’d love to hear from you.

What can you expect?

As a Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer, you’ll be a technical leader responsible for designing, building, securing and optimising cloud infrastructure and networking on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. You’ll lead by example through hands-on engineering while providing technical direction, standards and guidance across our DevOps and cloud engineering community. From shaping highly scalable, resilient and cost-efficient platforms to influencing tooling, automation and operational excellence, you’ll play a key role in how we build for the future. Working closely with DevOps, Security, SRE, platform and delivery teams, you’ll help shape secure-by-design architectures, drive best practice in automation and reliability, and support a collaborative engineering culture focused on continuous improvement.

What you’ll be doing

• Acting as a senior technical authority for DevOps, cloud engineering and AWS platform design • Leading the design, deployment and optimisation of secure, scalable and highly available AWS architectures • Defining engineering standards, patterns and best practices for infrastructure, networking, security and automation • Providing technical leadership for AWS networking, including VPC design, Transit Gateway, Route 53, load balancing and hybrid connectivity • Championing Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD and GitOps approaches using tools such as Terraform, Terragrunt, CloudFormation, GitHub Actions, Jenkins or GitLab CI • Embedding security, observability, compliance and reliability into cloud-native and hybrid platforms • Mentoring engineers, guiding architectural decisions and helping raise capability across the wider engineering community