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Senior Cloud Engineer


Job Location:

Oxford - UK

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 13 June 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 10 September 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Description

Key Responsibilities

  • AWS Infrastructure Design Architect maintain and optimise cloud environments using services such as RDS ECS S3 Lambda CloudWatch and VPC.
  • Terraform Automation Build maintain and improve Terraform modules; enforce IaC best practices; manage multienvironment deployments.
  • Container & Orchestration Support and enhance Dockerbased workloads and ECS deployments.
  • CI/CD Ownership Contribute to GitLab CI pipelines and deployment workflows.
  • Security & Secrets Management Manage and improve secret storage and access patterns using HashiCorp Vault.
  • Scripting & Automation Develop automation scripts and tooling ideally in Python.
  • CrossTeam Collaboration Work closely with developers and product teams to support delivery and improve operational excellence.

Required Skills & Experience

  • AWS Expertisewith productionlevel experience across core services (RDS ECS S3 Lambda IAM networking).
  • Terraform Proficiencyincluding module creation state management and complex multienvironment setups.
  • Dockerand container lifecycle management.
  • Strong understanding of GitLab CI/CD pipelines runners and deployment patterns.
  • Experience with HashiCorp Vaultfor secrets and policy management.
  • Strong communication skills and ability to work both collaboratively and independently.

NicetoHave

  • Knowledge of monitoring/observabilitytools (Prometheus Grafana etc.).
  • Scripting skills ideally Python for automation and tooling.
  • Exposure to cost optimisationin AWS.
  • Familiarity with infrastructure securityand compliance frameworks.

What Were Looking For

  • A team playerwho enjoys collaboration but is equally comfortable taking ownership and driving initiatives solo.
  • Someone who is curious proactive and pragmatic with a strong sense of responsibility for uptime performance and reliability.
  • A person who values clean maintainable infrastructureand automation over manual work.



Required Experience:

Senior IC


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Oxford Nanopore’s goal is to bring the widest benefits to society through enabling the analysis of anything, by anyone, anywhere. The company has developed a new generation of nanopore-based sensing technology enabling the real-time, high-performance, accessible and scalable analysis ... View more

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