Head of Cloud Platform Engineering

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

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☁️ Cloud Engineer

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Flui Technologies

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51 - 200 employees

⚡ Energy

Energy

Flui Technologies is the leading provider of critical utilities and infrastructure software in the UK and Ireland. Their flexible and proven software solutions enable clients to respond quickly and manage change, ensuring efficient and reliable operations in the Electricity, Gas, and Water markets. Flui's software handles messaging for over 35 million electricity and gas meter points and processes millions of records daily.

📋 Description

• Own the component-level architecture of Flui's AWS cloud estate across AWS-native services and open-source/self-managed components • Operate and continuously improve the platforms underpinning MarketFlow, MeterFlow and DCC adapter • Maintain direct accountability for resilience, performance and scalability at national-scale transaction volumes • Design and maintain disaster recovery, high-availability and capacity plans • Own FinOps, including cost visibility, forecasting, tagging, allocation and ongoing cost optimisation • Own cloud security posture, including IAM, network security, encryption, vulnerability and patch management • Ensure the estate operates in line with Flui's ISO/IEC 27001 ISMS and wider compliance obligations • Define and maintain non-functional standards for resilience, performance, scalability and observability • Design, build and personally implement infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines and platform tooling • Own incident management, on-call practice, root-cause analysis and continuous improvement of SRE practices • Make build-vs-buy and AWS-native-vs-open-source decisions • Manage key vendor and technical relationships, including AWS and platform-tooling providers • Partner with product and engineering leadership on cloud architecture, roadmap and time-to-market • Recruit and develop a small platform engineering team • Champion knowledge sharing, document architecture decisions and standards, run internal sessions, and mentor engineers

🎯 Requirements

• Demonstrable experience owning cloud platforms supporting a regulated, high-availability or critical-infrastructure business • Deep, hands-on AWS expertise across compute, storage, networking, data and security services • Proven experience designing and operating cloud-native platforms combining AWS-native services with open-source components such as Kubernetes, Terraform, Kafka, Prometheus/Grafana or equivalent tools • Track record of owning a FinOps practice and delivering demonstrable, sustained cloud cost savings • Strong cloud security background in IAM, encryption and vulnerability management • Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as ISO/IEC 27001 • Experience defining and meeting non-functional requirements including high availability, disaster recovery, performance/load testing and scalability at production scale • Strong infrastructure-as-code skills using Terraform, CloudFormation or CDK • Mature CI/CD practice • Comfortable operating hands-on day to day while owning strategy, standards and team development • Track record of knowledge sharing and raising technical capability through documentation, mentoring or internal training • Willingness to participate in on-call/incident response as needed • A degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline is a bonus, or equivalent hands-on experience • Current AWS certification(s) are highly desirable

🏖️ Benefits

• Regular worker type • 37.5 scheduled weekly hours