Cloud Consultant (Contract)

Our enterprise client is seeking a Senior Cloud Consultant with a strong understanding of DORA and other Financial Services Regulations.

Start Date: June 2026
Duration: 120 days
Pay Rate: £427.16 p/d
Total Daily Earnings: £485.00 p/d (includes rolled up holiday)
Employer NI: Paid by the client
IR35 Status: Inside IR35
Location: Sheffield/Hybrid (Initial onsite presence 2-3 days per week reducing over time)

Essential experience:

• Strong experience in regulated financial services environments or other highly regulated environments.
• Proven experience operating within Technology, Infrastructure, Architecture or SRE-adjacent roles.
• Practical exposure to Operational Resilience, Service Resilience, BC/DR, Incident Management, Scenario Testing, or Technology Risk.
• Experience working across complex service estates with multiple dependencies, platforms and suppliers.
• Comfortable working in enterprise-scale, global organisations.

Technical Skills:

Broad, cross-domain technical understanding (not narrow specialisms), covering areas such as:

• Cloud platforms. (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Infrastructure, networks, data centres.
• Application platforms and integration.
• Observability, monitoring and resilience tooling.

Understanding of:

• Service chain / dependency mapping.
• Vulnerability and risk management.
• UK Operation Resilience Policy Framework. (PRA/FCA/Bank of England)
• Recovery models, RTO/RPO and resilience patterns, ITIL.
• Change, release and incident management.
• Experience with enterprise tooling such as ServiceNow. Monitoring or observability platforms is beneficial but not mandatory.

Soft Skills:

• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills.
• Confident operating at senior architect, CTOi, Risk and Audit level.
• Ability to challenge constructively and “win hearts and minds”.
• Clear, structured communication – able to translate complex technical resilience topics for non-technical audiences.
• Advisory mindset – comfortable shaping direction, not just executing tasks.

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Job Reference: RL8147