Job Description

Connect2Hackney are looking for an experienced Senior Cloud Engineer to join our multi-disciplinary ICT team with the London Borough of Hackney.

In this role, you will take the lead on designing, delivering, and optimising our self-service cloud infrastructure, operating systems, and business applications. You will ensure our platforms remain secure, highly available, sustainable, and performant, all while offering a high-quality user experience for our software engineers and suppliers. Working with an Agile mindset under broad direction, you will have a significant say in resource management, task assignment, and shaping our organisational cloud standards.

Key Responsibilities

Lead the development of solution architectures and design large, complex cloud-based service solutions while balancing functional and non-functional requirements.

Oversee the configuration, deployment, lifecycle management, and patching of server operating systems and critical business applications. Direct the migration of IT services from traditional infrastructure to cloud-based systems.

Take technical responsibility across all stages of software development and systems integration, driving capabilities around automation and continuous integration (CI).

Embed robust security controls into your designs to mitigate threats, actively monitor security compliance, investigate vulnerabilities, and maintain data integrity.

Motivate, inspire, and share expertise with a multi-disciplinary team. Build effective business relationships across the council, managing stakeholder needs with diverse objectives.

Participate on a rota basis with other senior managers to coordinate and deliver effective user support (including out-of-hours support where applicable, for which an additional payment is offered).

Who We Are Looking For

We want a proactive professional who thrives at an SFIA Level 5 standard. You should bring technical expertise across:

Cloud Engineering & Solution Architecture (predictive and adaptive/agile approaches).

Programming, Software Development, and Systems Integration.

Network Design & IT Infrastructure optimisation.

Security Operations and server operating system configurations.

Qualifications:

Ideally, you are educated to a bachelor's degree level and/or hold a relevant professional qualification (e.g., AWS certification).

Note: Consideration will gladly be given to applicants without these formal qualifications if you can demonstrate you have successfully worked at a similar level.

Why Join Hackney?

At Hackney, we promote a "one organisation" approach built on inclusion, transparency, and financial prudence. We are dedicated to delivering innovative services that provide high quality and excellent value for money to our local residents and businesses. You will have the unique opportunity to collaborate across diverse matrix areas, ranging from Cyber Security and Engineering to Data & Insight and Customer Experience, ensuring real, sustainable growth for your career.

Commercial Services Trading Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy