Cloud Analyst

Cloud Analyst- Platform Engineering

We are currently recruiting for a Cloud Analyst with AI experience to join one of our Insurance clients on a 6-month contract.

Inside IR35

Hybrid

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and maintain Azure, AWS and OCI Policy definitions, initiatives, and assignments to enforce enterprise governance and compliance standards as outlined by Architectural Standards.
• Support the design, evolution and maintenance of cloud guardrails that enable secure, repeatable, and compliant AWS and OCI consumption at scale.
• Analyze cloud environments for policy violations, configuration drift, and risk exposure, providing actionable recommendations to engineering and business partners.
• Collaborate with Solution Engineering and DevOps teams to integrate compliance controls into Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Contribute to the creation and maintenance of technical standards, runbooks, and governance documentation.
• Assist Team colleagues in monitoring and assignment of intake support requests.
• Support responses to business leaders and stakeholders by translating technical compliance findings into clear, business-relevant insights.
• Participate in continuous improvement efforts to enhance governance automation, reporting, and self-service capabilities.
• Assist IT and LOB colleagues with Cloud Resource Standards adherence.

Experience

• Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience in a cloud or infrastructure engineering role.
• Working knowledge of AWS, with experience in compute and core platform services (e.g., AWS Virtual Machines, App Services, networking fundamentals). Additional OCI experience preferred.
• Practical experience with AWS Policy, including authoring, testing, or maintaining policies or initiatives.
• Experience and willingness to learn Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools such as Bicep, ARM templates, Terraform, or equivalent.
• Familiarity with DevOps methods, including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and version control (e.g., Git).
• Basic understanding of cloud security, governance, and compliance concepts.
• Exposure to cloud compliance frameworks (e.g., internal governance standards, ISO, SOC, or similar control-based models).
• Experience working in a regulated or highly controlled enterprise environment.
• Familiarity with AWS and OCI-native governance and security tools.
• Familiarity with AI Tools such as ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, or Gemini.
• Basic scripting or automation skills using PowerShell, or Python.
• Understanding of cost management and resource hygiene within AWS environments.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.