Cloud Operations Specialist

Description

The Cloud Operations Specialist is responsible for managing and maintaining Old Mutual's cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability, performance, and security. The role is primarily operational in nature — focused on monitoring, incident response, system maintenance, patching, and the reliable day-to-day running of cloud platforms and shared services.

Cloud Operations Specialists work closely with Cloud Engineers, consuming and extending the automation tooling and infrastructure built by engineering teams. They are expected to write and maintain operational scripts to support their work, but their primary output is stable, well-operated cloud environments rather than the delivery of new features or platform capabilities. A key and ongoing responsibility of this role is cloud cost management and FinOps practice.

Cloud Operations Specialists are the primary owners of day-to-day spend visibility, waste identification, rightsizing, ...