Entity:

Technology

Job Family Group:

IT&S Group

Job Description:

Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner.
 

Let me tell you about the role

The Senior Cloud Engineer is responsible for engineering, enhancing, and operating bp’s AWS Platform, ensuring it remains secure, reliable, scalable, cost-effective, and aligned with bp’s cloud strategy.
 

Working as a senior member of the AWS Platform Engineering team, this role delivers the technical capabilities that enable application teams across bp to consume AWS safely and efficiently. The role focuses on building reusable platform capabilities, improving existing services, removing technical debt, and continuously modernising the platform to take advantage of evolving AWS capabilities.
 

The Senior Cloud Engineer works closely with the AWS Platform Architect, Technical Delivery Lead, Platform Engineering teams, and peer technology services to translate architectural direction into practical, production-ready engineering outcomes.
 

This is a hands-on engineering role requiring deep AWS expertise, strong software engineering practices, and the ability to solve complex technical challenges across the breadth of the AWS platform. The role does not have line management responsibility but provides technical leadership, mentoring, and engineering expertise within the squad.
 

The role requires a strong platform perspective - building reusable capabilities that can support many application teams rather than delivering one-off solutions.
 

What you will deliver

Engineer and enhance the AWS Platform

• Design, build, automate, and operate core AWS Platform capabilities.
• Deliver platform enhancements that improve security, reliability, scalability, cost efficiency, and developer experience.
• Build reusable platform services and automation that enable application teams to consume AWS effectively.
• Work collaboratively within an engineering squad to deliver platform roadmap commitments.
• Translate architectural designs and requirements into practical engineering solutions.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of the AWS Platform operating model and engineering practices.
   

Modernise the platform and reduce technical debt

• Identify, prioritise, and remediate technical debt across AWS Platform services.
• Modernise existing capabilities to align with AWS guidelines and current service offerings.
• Continuously evaluate opportunities to simplify, automate, and improve platform capabilities.
• Ensure the AWS Platform remains current with evolving AWS services, features, and recommended architectures.
• Retire legacy approaches and introduce improved patterns where they deliver better security, resilience, or operational outcomes.
   

AWS platform engineering

• Develop and maintain AWS Platform capabilities across areas including:
• AWS Organizations and account governance
• Identity and access management
• Networking and connectivity
• Security controls and governance
• Compute and container platforms
• Observability and operational tooling
• Automation and developer enablement
• Build secure-by-default platform services that meet enterprise requirements.
• Create reusable Infrastructure as Code and automation patterns.
• Improve platform reliability through engineering excellence, automation, and operational improvements.
   

Software engineering and automation

• Develop automation and platform tooling using **Python** and **AWS CloudFormation**.
• Build maintainable, reusable, and testable code following modern software engineering practices.
• Create automated solutions that reduce manual operational effort and improve consistency.
• Supply to CI/CD pipelines, testing practices, and engineering standards.
• Use source control, code review, and deployment automation practices to maintain high-quality platform engineering.
   

Security, governance, and operational excellence

• Implement secure cloud engineering practices across AWS Platform services.
• Embed security controls, compliance requirements, and governance principles into platform capabilities.
• Support operational excellence through monitoring, observability, automation, and continuous improvement.
• Solve complex technical issues across AWS services and platform components.
• Supply to incident management, root cause analysis, and preventative improvements.
• Ensure platform capabilities meet reliability and resilience expectations.
   

AI and innovation

• Support bp’s ambition to accept AI by seeing opportunities to apply AI capabilities within the AWS Platform.
• Evaluate and adopt AI-enabled tooling that improves engineering productivity, automation, operational insight, and developer experience.
• Prototype and pilot new AWS capabilities, including emerging AI services, to assess their suitability for enterprise adoption.
• Maintain hands-on technical knowledge of evolving AWS services and cloud engineering practices.
• Use practical implementation experience to inform platform improvements and technical decisions.
   

Collaboration and partner engagement

• Work closely with the AWS Platform Architect to deliver the platform roadmap and architectural vision.
• Collaborate with Technical Delivery Leads, Cloud Engineers, and wider Platform teams to deliver outcomes.
• Partner with peer services including Connectivity, Identity, Security, and Enterprise Architecture.
• Work with application teams to understand requirements and enable successful adoption of AWS capabilities.
• Provide technical guidance and support to teams consuming AWS Platform services.
• Promote consistent engineering practices across the AWS community.
   

What you will need to be successful

Technical skills and experience

• Extensive hands-on experience engineering and operating enterprise-scale AWS environments.
• Strong software engineering skills with significant experience developing automation and platform capabilities using **Python** and **AWS CloudFormation**.
• Experience building reusable Infrastructure as Code, automation, and operational tooling.
• Strong understanding of AWS services including:
• IAM and identity services
• AWS Organizations and governance
• Networking
• Security services
• Compute platforms
• Containers
• Monitoring and observability
• Experience designing and operating secure, reliable, and scalable cloud platforms.
• Strong fixing and problem-solving skills across complex cloud environments.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and DevSecOps practices.
• Experience reducing technical debt and modernising cloud platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate, pilot, and adopt new AWS services through practical implementation experience.
   

Leadership and behavioural skills

• Strong ability to influence and collaborate across technical teams.
• Comfortable working in a matrix organisation with multiple partners.
• Able to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrates ownership, accountability, and a continuous improvement approach.
• Passionate about engineering excellence and building high-quality platform capabilities.
• Able to balance delivery priorities, operational requirements, and long-term platform health.
• Provides technical leadership and mentoring within the engineering squad without requiring formal line management responsibility.
   

Skills that set you apart

• Experience building and operating enterprise cloud platforms at significant scale.
• Experience with platform engineering approaches and internal developer platforms.
• Experience creating reusable cloud services consumed by multiple application teams.
• AWS professional-level certification.
• Experience working in regulated or highly governed environments.
• Experience adopting AI-assisted engineering practices or integrating AI capabilities into cloud platforms.
• Demonstrated curiosity and passion for experimenting with new cloud technologies.
• Ability to remain hands-on while operating as a senior technical contributor.
   

Please note that roles based out of SJS or Sunbury will move to Timber Square, Southwark, from Q4 2027.

Why join us?

At bp, we support our people to grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity.
 

There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, excellent retirement benefits, among others!
 

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
 

Reinvent your career as you help our business meet the challenges of the future. Apply now!

Travel Requirement

No travel is expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Cloud Platforms, Cloud Platforms, Collaboration, Communication, Configuration management and release, Continuous deployment and release, Creating a high performing team, Database Design, Digital Project Management, Documentation and knowledge sharing, Emerging technology monitoring, Facilitation, Information Security, Mentoring, Metrics definition and instrumentation, NoSql data modelling, Problem Solving, Relational Data Modelling, Risk Management, Scripting, Secure development, Service operations and resiliency, Software Design and Development, Solution Architecture, Source control and code management {+ 5 more}

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Future Location Notice:  This role will start in Sunbury, London. bp has announced a planned office move to Timber Square, London, with all positions currently advertised in Sunbury, including this one, expected to relocate around Q4 2027-Q1 2028. This presents an exciting opportunity for all employees and leaders to come together in one London location. The specific date of the move will be confirmed closer to the time.

Legal Disclaimer:

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics like race, religion, color, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us.

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