Cloud Engineer

Job Description
At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK's leading Wealth & Investments group.

Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industry's best talent.

Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders, and society.

We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent.

Aberdeen Comprises Three Businesses, Interactive Investor (ii), Investments, And Adviser, Each Of Which Focuses On Meeting And Adapting To Our Clients' Evolving Needs

• interactive investor, the UK's second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform, enables individuals in the UK to plan, save, and invest in the way that works for them.
• Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers.
• Our Investments business is a specialist asset manager that focuses on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market, through either public markets or alternative asset classes.

About The Department
The Adviser business at Aberdeen provides support, expertise and technology for financial advisers in the UK, enabling them to create value for their businesses and clients. This team is committed to a product operating model that empowers teams to be autonomous and accountable, fostering innovation from concept to delivery. We lead the design, discovery and delivery of cutting-edge digital products and services for Financial Advice firms.

About The Role
Join our agile engineering team as a Cloud Engineer, where you'll design and maintain scalable, secure and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure. Collaborate with product teams to deliver modern cloud solutions powered by automation and AI.

This is a great opportunity for an experienced engineer passionate about cloud technologies, DevOps, and continuous improvement. You'll help build platforms that support financial advisers and their clients, with access to mentorship, technical training and a clear path to Engineering Lead.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and deploy secure cloud infrastructure on Azure for real-time financial operations.
• Automate provisioning and configuration with tools like Terraform, ensuring compliance and consistency.
• Build CI/CD pipelines with integrated security, testing and regulatory checks.
• Monitor performance and security to ensure high availability and early issue detection.
• Ensure regulatory compliance by implementing technical controls aligned with FCA and data protection standards.
• Collaborate across teams to support full lifecycle development and deployment.

About The Candidate
The ideal candidate will possess the following:

• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, including containerisation, serverless functions, and microservices.
• Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or Ansible, with governance and version control.
• Strong CI/CD pipeline development skills, including automated testing and security integration.
• System administration expertise across Windows and Linux, with performance tuning and uptime management.
• Deep understanding of cloud security, identity management, and regulatory compliance (e.g. FCA, GDPR).
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, please notify us by completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire. One of our team will reach out to support you through your application process.

Our Benefits
There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.

When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days' annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance-based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits – including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. You can read more about our benefits here.

Our business
Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas – our vectors of growth – focused on our clients' changing needs. You can find out more about what we do here.

An inclusive way of working
Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, we'd like to hear from you.

At Aberdeen we've adopted a 'blended working' approach. This approach combines the benefits of face-to-face collaboration, coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. It enables colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, their teams, our clients and our business.

An inclusive culture, where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are and what we do. If you need assistance with your application, or a reasonable adjustment to your interview arrangements – for example, because you are neurodivergent, or have a physical, sensory, cognitive, mental, visible or invisible disability – please let us know and we'll be happy to help.

We're committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense – this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance. We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone.

If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.