Junior Cloud Engineer

Job description

SmartSearch's distinctive Anti‐Money Laundering verification software protects our clients by offering the most advanced and comprehensive features available from an AML provider.

SmartSearch has grown rapidly by fostering an incredibly collaborative and supportive culture. As we continue our ambitious growth plans, we will strive to remain a truly exciting, rewarding, and unique place to work.

We are looking for a Cloud Engineer who will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining secure, scalable, and cost‐effective cloud infrastructure to support our applications and services. This role focuses on cloud platform engineering, infrastructure automation, and enabling development teams to deploy and operate workloads efficiently in the cloud.

Reporting directly to the Head of Cloud Engineering, you will work independently while collaborating closely with software engineers, SREs, and operations teams. You will be responsible for implementing infrastructure as code, supporting CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring cloud environments follow best practices for security, resilience, and performance. Continuous learning and ongoing improvement of cloud platforms and tooling will be a key expectation of this role.

Varied Day To Day Responsibilities

Designing, building, and maintaining cloud infrastructure to support business‐critical services

Implementing and maintaining infrastructure as code for repeatable, auditable deployments

Supporting and improving CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application delivery

Ensuring cloud environments are secure, resilient, and aligned with best practices

Working closely with development teams to enable efficient deployment and operation of workloads

Managing and maintaining Kubernetes clusters and cloud‐native services

Implementing monitoring, logging, and alerting in collaboration with SRE teams

Supporting capacity planning, scaling strategies, and cost optimisation initiatives

Troubleshooting and resolving cloud infrastructure issues in production environments

Producing clear documentation for cloud architecture, operational processes, and best practices

Contributing to continuous improvement of cloud platforms, tooling, and engineering standards

What are we looking for in a candidate?

Strong experience designing, building, and operating cloud infrastructure in production environments

Strong experience with cloud platforms, particularly Azure

Proficiency with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Bicep, or Ansible

Good understanding of cloud networking concepts, including VNETs, routing, firewalls, load balancing, and private connectivity

Experience working with container platforms such as Kubernetes and container registries

Experience supporting and improving CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments

Understanding of cloud security principles, identity and access management, and compliance best practices

Ability to implement reliable backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies

Good written and verbal communication skills, with a strong standard of English

Desire to continuously learn and stay current with evolving cloud technologies

Advantages

2–3 years' experience in a Cloud Engineer, Platform Engineer, DevOps, or similar role

Experience with Azure‐native services such as AKS, App Services, Azure SQL, Azure Storage, and Azure Monitor

Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, or cloud‐native equivalents

Understanding of modern application architectures, including microservices and event‐driven systems

Working knowledge of GitOps workflows and deployment strategies

Strong automation and scripting skills using Bash, PowerShell, Python, or Go

Experience managing cloud costs and implementing cost optimisation strategies

Exposure to multi‐environment setups (dev, test, staging, production)

Understanding of reliability, availability, and performance considerations in cloud platforms

What is life like at SmartSearch?

We are a multi‐award winning Tech company with an aspirational mentality

Some of our most recent recognitions include: named in the renowned RegTech100 list for 2024, listed in the Top 100 Fasted Growing Tech Companies by Northern Tech Awards 2024 as well as being named Technology Provider of the Year by Corporate Finance Awards 2024

We have been Great Place To Work Certified since 2022

There are excellent progression opportunities due to our growth and you will have personal development goals, regular feedback and support

We are a diverse and inclusive team committed to promoting Diversity & Inclusion and Social Responsibility. Through our DE&I group, charitable initiatives and support for local schools, we actively foster a positive Impact on our community

Company BenefitsOur comprehensive benefit package includes:

25 days holiday rising to 30 with each year of service

Private Medical Insurance covering dental and optical

Company pension scheme

Life Assurance – 4x your annual salary

1 day paid volunteering per year

Enhanced maternity / paternity offerings

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle to work scheme

On site gym

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Extra information

Status

Closed

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

Ilkley

Type of Contract

Full Time Jobs

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English