The Senior Cloud Operations Engineer (AWS) plays a key role in designing, building, and operating Bupa’s AWS cloud platform at enterprise scale. This role specialises in AWS platform management and architecture, with a strong focus on secure multi-account design, standardised landing zones, and automated guardrails.
You will help evolve the AWS platform as an internal product, balancing governance, security, and cost controls with developer autonomy and delivery speed. Working closely with architecture, security, DevOps, SRE, FinOps, and delivery teams, you will shape how AWS services are safely and consistently consumed across the organisation.
This is a senior hands-on engineering role with strong expectations around AWS platform design leadership, infrastructure automation, and operational excellence.
- Design, build, and evolve AWS platform capabilities using automation-first and Infrastructure as Code principles.
- Define and maintain AWS landing zone architecture, including:
- Multi-account strategies
- AWS Organizations and Control Tower
- Network and connectivity patterns
- Establish and enforce platform guardrails using AWS-native and IaC-based controls.
- Develop reusable platform patterns, golden paths, and reference architectures for application teams.
- Balance security, compliance, and financial governance with developer experience and productivity.
- Continuously improve platform scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency.
- Design, build, and maintain Terraform-based AWS infrastructure modules with strong standards for versioning, testing, and lifecycle management.
- Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines for platform and infrastructure code.
- Champion everything-as-code practices including Infrastructure as Code, Policy as Code, and automated validation and testing.
- Review and uplift infrastructure designs and pipelines across the Cloud Services team.
- Enable consistent, repeatable AWS environments through automation and self-service.
- Design AWS platform services with reliability, availability, scalability, and recoverability as first-class concerns.
- Define and implement observability standards (monitoring, logging, metrics, alerting).
- Embed security and compliance into AWS platform designs, pipelines, and defaults as part of a secure-by-design practice.
- Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
- Partner with Security and Risk teams to implement governance controls through automation and policy.
- Act as a trusted AWS platform advisor to architecture, delivery, and operations teams.
- Review infrastructure designs and recommend platform-aligned AWS solutions.
- Contribute to AWS platform roadmaps, standards, and internal engineering forums.
- Support product and delivery teams in modernising and optimising applications for cloud-native environments.
- Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and technology vendors.
- Act as a technical leader within the Cloud Services team.
- Mentor and support other engineers to uplift platform capability and engineering maturity.
- Lead by example in engineering quality, automation, and documentation.
- Influence standards and best practices across the broader technology organisation.
- Extensive experience designing, deploying, or operating AWS workloads or platforms at enterprise scale.
- Deep hands-on expertise with AWS including Organizations, IAM, networking, and security services.
- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform.
- Experience with at least one programming language (e.g. Python) and the ability to write test cases.
- Proven experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and platform services.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals including modular design, source control, and automated testing.
- Experience designing for operational excellence, reliability, and security in cloud environments.
- Experience integrating AWS with enterprise security, networking, and identity services.
- Experience with IaC tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation and DevOps tools such as Azure DevOps.
- Exposure to multi-cloud environments or secondary Azure platforms.
- Experience contributing to internal developer platforms or shared services.
- Familiarity with FinOps practices and AWS cost optimisation strategies.
- AWS Associate or Professional certification.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence technical stakeholders.
At Bupa, our purpose is to help people live longer, healthier, happier lives and make a better world, and we know this starts with delivering our purpose for our people.
Our wellbeing program Viva has been designed to help you to live a healthy and happy life. It includes access to health & general insurance discounts, information and education sessions, and preventative healthcare screening such as annual health assessments and skin checks. Through Viva you have access to a range of benefits that will help you to maintain your physical, mental, social, digital, environmental and financial wellbeing. As well as a competitive salary, a range of Bupa benefits and flexible working, you’ll be challenged and encouraged to innovate.
If this sounds exciting, we’d love to hear from you. Let’s shape the future of healthcare, together.
At Bupa your wellbeing, identity, and personal story are respected and valued. We are continuing to build teams that reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. Bupa is committed to providing equal opportunities and fostering a workplace and environment that is free of discrimination, bullying and harassment.
We actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds and experiences, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, veterans, people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ applicants.
We are dedicated to removing barriers to participation. If you need any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, or if you’d like to discuss how this role can be flexible for you, please let us know so we can support your participation on an equitable basis.
