Cloud Operations Engineer
Kerridge Commercial Systems
As a Cloud Operations Engineer, you will own the day-to-day operation and improvement of cloud-based products, ensuring security, reliability, and performance. You’ll monitor incidents, manage IaC-driven infrastructure, and evolve CI/CD pipelines to enable automated deployments. You’ll work with cross-functional teams to meet SLOs, support disaster recovery, and uphold security and compliance standards. This role offers a chance to advance ops maturity, embrace AI-enabled tooling, and contribute to a fast-growing, global product ecosystem.
Pay / Benefits- hybrid work policy (3 days in office, 2 remote)
- on-call compensation
- global team collaboration
- opportunities to work with AI-enabled technologies
- Own day-to-day operation, availability, resilience, and continuous improvement of cloud-based products and services
- Monitor, diagnose, and resolve incidents across compute, storage, network, and identity platforms
- Manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools
- Design, build, and support CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments
- Ensure services meet defined SLOs and utilize observability data for decisions
- Perform backup, DR, and failover activities with tested RTO/RPO
- Implement security controls, IAM, patching, and vulnerability remediation
- Manage secrets and privileged access in line with governance
- Ensure compliance with ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR and related standards
- Identify recurring issues and implement preventative measures
- Develop automation to reduce manual effort and improve reliability
- Apply FinOps to optimise cloud costs
- Maintain runbooks and documentation
- Participate in on-call rotations and respond to incidents
- Collaborate with Ops, Governance, Security, and Eng Engineering teams
- Mentor junior engineers and promote best practices
- Support capacity planning, performance optimization, and cost management
- Solid hands-on experience operating a cloud platform in production with depth in either Microsoft Azure or OCI
- Incident resolution and troubleshooting across compute, storage, network, and identity
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform or Bicep) and CI/CD pipelines
- Scripting proficiency (PowerShell, Bash) for automation
- IAM, patching, vulnerability remediation and safe secrets management
- Experience working to SLAs/SLOs and in compliance controls (ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR)
- Willingness to participate in a compensated on-call rota
- collaboration
- curiosity about AI and learning mindset
- ability to communicate across teams
- Azure or OCI cloud platform expertise
- Terraform or Bicep
- PowerShell or Bash scripting
Reference: WJ-747_30140142