# Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer

**Company:** [Target](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/8DA4SXZeo48Aqwc7YkbAuY.md)
**Location:** Cardiff, United Kingdom
**Workplace:** hybrid
**Employment type:** Full-time

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## Description

**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!**