# Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

**Company:** [Applied Intuition](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/applied-intuition)
**Location:** London, United Kingdom
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** £100k – £160k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Python, Bash, Linux, CI/CD, Infrastructure As Code, Bazel, Nix, IAM, Distributed Systems
**Posted:** 2026-08-18

> The Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer will design and operate secure cloud, on-premise, and air-gapped infrastructure for UK defence customers. The role requires 5+ years of production infrastructure experience, cloud and IaC expertise, Kubernetes and containerization skills, and eligibility for UK Security Clearance.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and architecture of UK-hosted infrastructure used across internal development teams.
- Build and deploy products into cloud, on-premise, and air-gapped environments using infrastructure as code, and support them throughout their operational life.
- Host UK-securely-approved AI models for secure programmes.
- Improve developer effectiveness by identifying friction and building tooling to remove it.
- Own CI/CD systems and deployment strategies, including Hardware in the Loop (HiL) integration.
- Debug and profile edge cases in distributed systems and lead incident response.
- Work with product managers and customers to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Contribute solutions to the wider organisation.

## Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related engineering field.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience building and deploying infrastructure for a production software product.
- Deep experience with at least one major cloud provider: AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Strong experience designing and building infrastructure with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
- Expertise with Kubernetes, Docker, and containerized systems, including microservice-based applications.
- Confidence with scripting languages such as Python or Bash.
- Experience with Linux-based operating systems such as Ubuntu or RHEL.
- Ability to take initiative in a fast-paced environment and improve system documentation.
- Ability to hold UK Security Clearance; current or previous clearance is preferred.

## Nice to Have
- 7+ years of experience across infrastructure, platform, or DevOps roles.
- Experience deploying Kubernetes on bare metal or in air-gapped and classified networks.
- Familiarity with security and regulatory controls, vulnerability patching, base OS images, networking, and IAM.
- Experience with Bazel, Nix, or similar technologies.
- Experience serving ML models in production or building data and real-time analysis pipelines.
- Experience on national-security projects for government agencies.
- Experience in autonomy, robotics, or simulation products.
- References describing strong communication, curiosity, motivation, thoughtful opinions, and a low-ego approach.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Full-time, primarily in-office role with an expectation of working from the Applied Intuition office five days per week.
- General willingness to travel between company offices and to customer sites.

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