Senior Cloud Engineer, QuantSpark
AWS
Offers share options and £6,000 annual training/conference allowance
2+ days a week in office
Data analytics services consultancy
Posted today
Data analytics services consultancy
21-100 employees
Posted today
Offers share options and £6,000 annual training/conference allowance
2+ days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To pioneer the strategic application of data science and software development to improve commercial decision-making.
Role
Who you are
- You have proven expertise building large-scale solutions on AWS
- You are fluent in Terraform for Infrastructure as Code
- You have strong containerisation/orchestration experience (Kubernetes, ECS, Helm)
- You are highly skilled in CI/CD, automation, and scripting (Python, Bash)
- You are comfortable implementing monitoring, security, and governance in AWS-native environments
What the job involves
- As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you’ll operate at both the visionary and technical frontier, helping build resilient infrastructures that power essential platforms and products
- As a Senior Cloud Engineer specialising in AWS, you will design, build, and optimise secure, scalable infrastructures for QuantSpark platforms and client projects
- You’ll lead the adoption of AWS-native services, manage containerised workloads, and embed DevOps practices to improve speed and reliability of delivery
- Collaborate with teams to design, implement, and support AWS infrastructure using services like EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, and CloudFormation
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and deployment with Terraform and CI/CD pipelines
- Manage and optimise containerised environments using Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), and Helm
- Implement monitoring, logging, security, and cost-optimisation strategies using AWS-native tools
- Partner with data and software engineers to align AWS infrastructure with product and analytics requirements
- Utilise serverless computing, database services (RDS, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL), and multi-cloud strategies
- Apply FinOps practices for cloud cost management and ensure disaster recovery and high availability
- Integrate DevSecOps best practices within CI/CD pipelines and leverage advanced solutions like HashiCorp Vault, service meshes, and Zero Trust architectures
- In 3–5 Years I Want to Be…
- An AWS authority shaping cloud-first strategies across platforms and products
- A mentor helping build the next generation of cloud engineers
- A hands-on leader influencing secure, scalable AWS adoption globally
Salary benchmarks
Our take
QuantSpark helps governments and businesses to strategically apply data science through the development of complex decision-making software. Primarily, its work involves analysing large datasets and systems in order to understand customer behaviour and help clients make informed decisions for strategic planning in sales and marketing.
In recent years, big data has become central to the operation of businesses large and small, and this has led to great demand for data scientists fluent in sophisticated modelling and analysis. QuantSpark seeks to go a step further, providing a service which combines data science with commercial insight- effectively providing both services through one transaction. By doing this, QuantSpark hopes to offer clients a more meaningful insight into their data than a standard consultancy could.
Already, the company has an impressive client list, including the UK Government, the Australian Government and Bain Capital. QuantSpark's tools and solutions are developed to become embedded in its clients' operations, ensuring a long-lasting relationship between them, and meaning that, as QuantSpark continues to expand its client base, its model should allow it to see continued success in the future.
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Company benefits
- Social impact: We are passionate about giving our team the chance to have a real social impact and will have the opportunity to work on a wide variety of impactful projects
- Training budget: Everyone in QuantSpark has a monthly training budget to spend on their own professional development
- Scale-up culture: We don't often have pizzas but we do offer a unique environment to contribute to QuantSpark's growth culture
- Socials: We're a social bunch and love to get to know each other
Company values
- Diversity: Diversity of people and ideas is essential for wellbeing and effectiveness as teams. Our interdisciplinary approach means that we produce extraordinary outcomes for our clients and also provides significant opportunities for professional development
- Analytical Rigour: We use data to cut through cognitive biases and pursue the truth for our clients. We test and probe each other's ideas and findings to ensure we leave no stone unturned in the pursuit of being the best we can
- Teamwork: As we work together to scale up QuantSpark and support our clients in their own analytics transformation journey, we take pride in teaching, learning, developing, and sharing as a team
- Entrepreneurialism: Rolling our sleeves up. Grit. We focus on doing our best to get the best outcomes for our clients. We empower all our colleagues to think outside the box in order deliver innovation for our clients
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Adam Hadley
(Co-Founder & CEO)With Master's degrees from Oxford and KCL, Adam divides their time between running QuantSpark and Tech Against Terrorism- the world's preeminent NGO helping to tackle terrorists' use of the internet.
People progressing
Anastasia is the Head of People and Operations. Anastasia joined the business as EA to Adam, the CEO, and quickly built out a department of her own which continues to expand.
Sophie joined the team in 2021 as a Senior Product Manager. They were quickly promoted to Product Lead and again to Head of Product.
Daniel joined as a Data Analyst in 2019 and now leads the Analytics Engineering Team and is an integral part of the business.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at QuantSpark
- QuantSpark is an equal opportunities employer committed to fair and equitable treatment for all potential employees, regardless of sex, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, or disability.
- We utilise diversity and inclusion data to pinpoint areas of improvement to our hiring process.
- We are transparent with our salary bandings to encourage everyone to feel empowered in their negotiations, and to ensure parity with our existing teams.
- We have a flexible approach to our interview process, utilising video interviews and take-home assessments. We aim to increase the variety of our assessment styles, to offer fair opportunity to all types of candidates.
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