Senior Cloud Engineer - Scotland
LorienGlasgow or Dundee (Hybrid)
£547 per day (Inside IR35)
3-month contract (with strong extension potential up to 17 months)
We're working with a leading public sector organisation on a key cloud and platform services programme. They're looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer to support complex environments, improve service delivery, and drive observability and DevOps capability.
The RoleThis is a hands-on, senior position focused on maintaining high-performing cloud services while also improving processes and resolving complex issues.
You'll be responsible for:
- Managing high-impact and complex change requests
- Ensuring release policies, processes, and controls are followed
- Reading and interacting with code in live environments
- Leading incident investigation and resolution
- Taking ownership of issues and proactively identifying risks
- Monitoring trends and patterns to resolve recurring problems
- Carrying out baseline repairs and system improvements
- Working closely with specialists to implement fixes and solutions
- Defining preventative measures to reduce future incidents
- Creating and maintaining technical documentation
- Identifying and driving process improvements and best practice
- Recommending appropriate tools and technologies
Key Skills & Experience (Essential)
We're looking for strong technical leadership combined with hands-on delivery:
- Proven ability to provide technical and business leadership to experienced engineering teams
- Deep knowledge of Cloud &DevOps tools, including:
- AWS
- Jenkins
- Terraform
- Elasticsearch
- Experience defining and delivering observability roadmaps
- Track record of driving continuous service improvement
- Ability to challenge existing processes and implement more efficient, cost-effective solutions
- Strong focus on supporting modern, business-critical technologies
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.