About this role
Salary: £45,000 - 83,000 per year
Requirements: Deep hands-on AWS expertise at enterprise scale, including multi-account architectures, IAM, KMS, and core compute, storage, and security servicesReal production experience with Azure alongside AWS, including landing zones, VNet architectures, Entra ID, and governance modelsExpert-level Terraform experience, including reusable modules, secure state management, and disciplined code reviewComfortable working in a Git-based workflow with CI/CDStrong cloud networking knowledge, including VPC and VNet design, hub-and-spoke or Transit Gateway/Cloud WAN architectures, DNS, and private connectivitySolid experience running containerised workloads in production, ideally on EKS or AKSExperience operating in regulated environments with awareness of change control, least privilege, and auditabilityFamiliarity with PCI DSS is a strong plusFocus on observability and measurementNatural ability to guide and mentor peers and translate ambiguous problems into actionable technical plansPragmatic problem-solving mindset, including incident resolution and root-cause analysis5+ years in cloud engineering roles with significant AWS depthA degree in Computer Science or a related field is useful but not required Responsibilities: Take ownership of large-scale platform projects end to end, from architecture through Terraform to productionBuild scalable, secure, and cost-optimised platform solutionsDesign platform primitives that product teams build on, making the secure path the easy pathWork with Engineering Managers and architects to refine requirements and shape the technical direction of the platformDocument significant technical decisions as ADRsAct as the Subject Matter Expert for team-owned services and provide advanced operational supportEnsure high availability for global payment systemsProduce exemplary code and documentation to spread best practices and standards across the groupManage technical dependencies inside and outside the pillar to support delivery speed and business outcomesEmbody our operating principles and help shape the groups cultureExplore and implement AI-driven automation to improve infrastructure efficiency and team productivity Technologies: AIAWSAzureCI/CDCloudGitIAMSupportSecurityTerraformASP.NETDevOpsKubernetesNetworkPython More:
Were Checkout.com, powering digital experiences for companies like eBay, Spotify, Klarna, Uber, and Sony, and enabling over 10 billion transactions each year for more than one billion global shoppers. Our Cloud Platform team owns the cloud foundations behind our global payments platform, including a large multi-account AWS estate, a growing Azure platform, and the networking and connectivity that reaches card schemes and banks worldwide. This is a hands-on senior role in an established, fast-moving team where everything is defined in code, deployed through pipelines, and reviewed like software. We offer a hybrid working model with three days per week in the office, and our London HQ supports our global fintech ambitions across 20 offices on six continents.
last updated 36 week of 2026