Cloud Systems Engineer – Payments

Location: Manchester, Greater Manchester

Sector: IT

Contract Type: Contract

Salary: £475 - £500 per day

Contact: Joe James

Contact Email: joe.james@pcrdigital.com

Published: 3 days ago

Duration: 12 Months

Expiry Date: Thu, Aug 13 2026

Reference: BBBH13146_1785407866

Start Date: 12 ASAP

Cloud Systems Engineer

Manchester/Stockport (Hybrid – 3 days onsite)

£475-500 per day | Inside IR35

Contract length TBC (Likely 12 months+)

PCR Digital are delighted to be partnering with an exciting FinTech company who are a global leader in payment technology, on the appointment of a Cloud Systems Engineer II to join their growing cloud infrastructure team based in Manchester.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Cloud Infrastructure or Platform Engineer looking to work across both Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and AWS, helping to design, automate and optimise highly available cloud environments that underpin mission-critical financial services platforms used by businesses around the world.

You’ll be joining an established engineering function where automation, Infrastructure as Code and modern DevOps practices are central to how technology is delivered.

The Opportunity

You’ll take ownership of designing, building and supporting cloud infrastructure whilst working closely with software engineering and platform teams to improve scalability, security and operational excellence.

This role offers plenty of variety, covering infrastructure design, automation, cloud networking, security, reliability and continuous improvement across a modern multi-cloud estate.

Key Responsibilities

Design, build and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure across GCP and AWS

Develop Infrastructure as Code using Terraform

Create and maintain Ansible playbooks for automation and configuration management

Build resilient, secure and highly available cloud environments

Work closely with development teams to support application deployments

Improve automation, monitoring and operational efficiency

Optimise cloud performance and spend across multiple environments

Support incident response, troubleshooting and root cause analysis

Implement networking, security and disaster recovery best practices

Produce clear technical documentation and infrastructure standards

We’re looking for experience in:

Commercial experience as a Cloud Engineer, Systems Engineer, Platform Engineer or Infrastructure Engineer

Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Good commercial experience with AWS

Terraform (essential)

Ansible automation

Linux administration

Docker and Kubernetes

Bash and/or Python scripting

Cloud networking (VPCs, IAM, Load Balancers, routing)

Infrastructure automation and CI/CD

Strong understanding of cloud security and best practices

Highly desirable

Any experience with the following would be advantageous:

GKE and/or Amazon EKS

Prometheus, Grafana or CloudWatch

GitOps (ArgoCD / Flux)

Service Mesh technologies

PCI DSS or regulated financial environments

FinOps or cloud cost optimisation

ELK Stack or centralised logging

Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity planning

Professional AWS or GCP certifications

Why apply?

Join one of the world’s leading payment technology organisations

Work with modern cloud technologies across both AWS and GCP

Highly collaborative engineering culture

Long-term programme with strong extension potential

Hybrid working from the Manchester office

If you’re an experienced Cloud Systems Engineer, Platform Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer or DevOps Engineer with strong Terraform, GCP and AWS experience, we’d love to hear from you.

Please apply with your latest CV and one of the PCR Digital team will be in touch to discuss the opportunity in more detail.

About PCR Digital

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