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
Requirements
What we’re looking for
We’re looking for someone who combines deep technical expertise with strong leadership and collaboration skills — someone who enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges and supporting others to do their best work.
Extensive hands-on AWS experience across compute, networking, storage and security
Deep expertise in AWS networking, including VPCs, Transit Gateway, Route 53, ALB/NLB and PrivateLink
Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Terragrunt and/or CloudFormation
Proven experience with CI/CD, GitOps, containerisation and Kubernetes/EKS, plus strong scripting skills in Python, Bash or PowerShell
Desirable (but not essential):
Experience supporting large-scale data or analytics platforms
Knowledge of Zero Trust and identity-centric security models
Experience with SIEM/SOC tooling and cloud threat detection capabilities
Exposure to AWS Control Tower, Organisations and multi-account governance
AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect, SysOps, Security Specialty or FinOps-related accreditation
A degree in Computer Science, IT, Cloud Computing or a related discipline
Benefits
Why join Target?
We’re proud to offer a competitive and flexible benefits package, designed to support your wellbeing, lifestyle and career growth:
Core Benefits
Competitive salary of up to £50,000 per annum depending on skills and experience
30 days holiday plus bank holidays – from day one
Hybrid working policy
Defined Contribution Pension Scheme (employer matched up to 6%)
Company‑paid Private Medical Insurance (benefit in kind)
Group Life Assurance
Group Income Protection
Discretionary annual bonus scheme
Annual pay review
Flexible & Lifestyle Benefits
My Flex benefits platform – access to a wide range of voluntary benefits
Technology Buying Scheme (salary sacrifice)
Gym Flex – discounted gym and health club memberships
Dental Insurance
Critical Illness Cover
Health Cash Plan
Cycle to Work scheme
Tastecard / Coffee Club
Employee Discount Scheme across hundreds of retailers
Wellbeing & Support
Wisdom Wellbeing – confidential health and wellbeing support, including EAP
Free flu vaccinations and eye tests, plus contributions towards glasses
Recognition Scheme celebrating successes across the business
Free mortgage advice and support
Charitable payroll giving
Access to a GP 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year through GP24
Everest Funeral Concierge
Free Bereavement and Probate Advice and Support
Enhanced parental leave
Life at Target
You’ll be joining a team that genuinely:
Celebrates success through our My Recognition portal
Invests in your development with regular feedback and support
Cares about wellbeing as much as delivery
Encourages curiosity, innovation and best practice
We’re committed to creating a Diverse & Inclusive culture through the execution of our D&I strategy, community relationships, our people & leaders.
Grow your future with us!
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
Requirements
What we’re looking for
We’re looking for someone who combines deep technical expertise with strong leadership and collaboration skills — someone who enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges and supporting others to do their best work.
Extensive hands-on AWS experience across compute, networking, storage and security
Deep expertise in AWS networking, including VPCs, Transit Gateway, Route 53, ALB/NLB and PrivateLink
Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Terragrunt and/or CloudFormation
Proven experience with CI/CD, GitOps, containerisation and Kubernetes/EKS, plus strong scripting skills in Python, Bash or PowerShell
Desirable (but not essential):
Experience supporting large-scale data or analytics platforms
Knowledge of Zero Trust and identity-centric security models
Experience with SIEM/SOC tooling and cloud threat detection capabilities
Exposure to AWS Control Tower, Organisations and multi-account governance
AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect, SysOps, Security Specialty or FinOps-related accreditation
A degree in Computer Science, IT, Cloud Computing or a related discipline
Benefits
Why join Target?
We’re proud to offer a competitive and flexible benefits package, designed to support your wellbeing, lifestyle and career growth:
Core Benefits
Competitive salary of up to £50,000 per annum depending on skills and experience
30 days holiday plus bank holidays – from day one
Hybrid working policy
Defined Contribution Pension Scheme (employer matched up to 6%)
Company‑paid Private Medical Insurance (benefit in kind)
Group Life Assurance
Group Income Protection
Discretionary annual bonus scheme
Annual pay review
Flexible & Lifestyle Benefits
My Flex benefits platform – access to a wide range of voluntary benefits
Technology Buying Scheme (salary sacrifice)
Gym Flex – discounted gym and health club memberships
Dental Insurance
Critical Illness Cover
Health Cash Plan
Cycle to Work scheme
Tastecard / Coffee Club
Employee Discount Scheme across hundreds of retailers
Wellbeing & Support
Wisdom Wellbeing – confidential health and wellbeing support, including EAP
Free flu vaccinations and eye tests, plus contributions towards glasses
Recognition Scheme celebrating successes across the business
Free mortgage advice and support
Charitable payroll giving
Access to a GP 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year through GP24
Everest Funeral Concierge
Free Bereavement and Probate Advice and Support
Enhanced parental leave
Life at Target
You’ll be joining a team that genuinely:
Celebrates success through our My Recognition portal
Invests in your development with regular feedback and support
Cares about wellbeing as much as delivery
Encourages curiosity, innovation and best practice
We’re committed to creating a Diverse & Inclusive culture through the execution of our D&I strategy, community relationships, our people & leaders.
Grow your future with us!
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