Cloud Engineer

Base Location: You'll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in one of the following locations : Glasgow, Aberdeen, Perth or Inverness

Salary: £50,100 - £75,100 + performance-related bonus + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.

Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available

The role

The Cloud Engineer will play a key role in designing, delivering and evolving the cloud services that underpin SSEN Transmission’s digital transformation. You will work closely with both Project and Operational teams to ensure cloud platforms are scalable, secure, and aligned with modern engineering practices. A key part of this role is enabling teams to adopt and extend published cloud patterns—while also helping define new ones that support our transition to Cloud Native architectures.

You will help shape the future of our cloud platforms by contributing to technical strategy, influencing solution architectural decisions, and driving best‑practice engineering standards across a growing multi‑cloud ecosystem. Your work will ensure our cloud services meet the organisation’s expectations around resilience, efficiency and high availability.

We’re looking for a hands‑on engineer with solid infrastructure delivery experience and a strong understanding of SDLC principles. This role suits someone who enjoys working in an agile team thriving on problem‑solving, collaborating with others, and helping teams deliver and support cloud services at scale.

You will

• Engage with stakeholders across technical and business domains to understand requirements and translate them into secure, reliable cloud solutions.
• Design, build and deploy cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure‑as‑Code (IaC) and CI/CD automation.
• Enhance cloud delivery processes by improving automation, engineering standards and tooling across the Transmission IT team.
• Embed cloud security and governance best practices, including identity management, resilience, auditability, networking controls and documentation standards.
• Contribute to the evolution of our multi‑cloud strategy, influencing architectural direction and future platform capabilities.

You have

• Practical, hands‑on experience deploying cloud services using CI/CD tooling and Infrastructure‑as‑Code.
• Strong technical analysis skills, allowing you to understand and map cloud requirements from diverse stakeholder groups.
• Excellent communication skills to articulate decisions, risks and solution options to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• A solid understanding of cloud architecture principles, particularly around enterprise‑grade, multi‑cloud environments.
• Experience with modern container technologies, such as Docker and/or Kubernetes, and an appreciation of Cloud Native design.

About SSE

SSE’s purpose is to provide energy needed today while building a better world of energy for tomorrow. We do this by developing, building, operating and investing in electricity infrastructure and businesses needed in the energy transition. Our Transforming for Growth investment plan sees us investing £33bn in critical electricity infrastructure across the five years to 2030.

Our IT division powers growth across all SSE business areas by making sure we have the systems, software and security needed to take the lead in a low carbon world. They provide expertise, advice and day-to-day support in emerging technologies, data and analytics, cyber security and more.

Flexible benefits to fit your life

Enjoy discounts on private healthcare and gym memberships. Wellbeing benefits like a free online GP and 24/7 counselling service. Interest-free loans on tech and transport season tickets, or a new bike with our Cycle to Work scheme. As well as generous family entitlements such as maternity and adoption pay, and paternity leave.

Work with an equal opportunity employer

SSE will make any reasonable adjustments you need to ensure that your application and experience with us is positive. Please contact david.brickell@sse.com to discuss how we can support you.

We're dedicated to fostering an open and inclusive workplace where people from all backgrounds can thrive. We create equal opportunities for everyone to succeed and especially welcome applications from those who may not be well represented in our workforce or industry.

Ready to apply?

Start your online application using the Apply Now box on this page. We only accept applications made online. We'll be in touch after the closing date to let you know if we'll be taking your application further. If you're offered a role with SSE, you'll need to complete a criminality check and a credit check before you start work.

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