Senior Cloud Services Engineer – WC2E 9DD
Permanent; Full time Salary: 55,000.00 per annumBased in: Covent Garden, London
Prior to commencing your application, please review our application guide here.
The Royal Ballet and Opera continues to lead the way in opera, ballet, music and dance both live on stage and through multiple digital platforms, from live streaming to worldwide cinema screenings. Our Covent Garden theatre has been at the heart of London and British cultural life for three centuries. We are home to two world-class Companies:The Royal BalletandThe Royal Opera.
The Royal Opera House describes the place we work, not who we are. The whole is always more than the sum of its parts we may be a House, but three quarters of our audiences experience what we do outside this building. While our Covent Garden theatre is the nerve centre, the impact and influence of the organisation can be felt in every corner of the country, and around the world.
Our Technology Department is responsible for the management of all services, infrastructure and business projects across the organisation, ensuring RBO staff have the technology and tools to be able to fulfill their roles and operate effectively. We are now seeking a Senior Cloud Services Engineer to join the team and provide deep insight into AWS Cloud technologies and infrastructure services.
In this role you will use your experience to design, build, maintain and monitor both the infrastructure and enterprise applications across the organisation with a focus towards best practice and automation technologies.
The role demands proficiency in several skills, each categorized into four ascending levels: Awareness, Working, Proficient, and Expert.
Skills needed for this role level:
Architecture Design & Strategy: (Level: Practitioner): Develop and implement robust, scalable, and high-availability architectural designs for AWS and Nutanix environments, focusing on services like Route 53, EC2, and integrating infrastructure automation through Terraform and Ansible.
Infrastructure Automation: (Level: Practitioner): Design and manage infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform and Ansible, ensuring efficient provisioning, configuration, and management of AWS resources.
DNS Management: (Level: Practitioner): Lead the management and optimization of AWS Route 53 for DNS resolution, including routing policies, health checks, and domain registration.
System Scaling & Optimization: (Level: Practitioner): Design and implement scalable systems on AWS EC2 and S3, including load balancing, auto-scaling, and performance tuning.
Security & Compliance: (Level: Practitioner): Ensure all AWS deployments comply with industrystandard security protocols and company policies. Implement and manage security groups, IAM roles, and policies.
Disaster Recovery & Backup: (Level: Practitioner): Develop and maintain disaster recovery strategies for AWS environments, ensuring data integrity and availability.
The Royal Ballet and Opera is one of the UKs leading arts organisations and our aim is to inspire imagination, ignite emotion and make the extraordinary for everyone. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion underpin all that we do. We want our people to be representative of the diversity in the UK. We understand the creativity and innovation that diversity can bring and strive to create an inclusive environment in which everyone can thrive.
We encourage applications from people with a wide range of backgrounds, experiences and skills to join our teams. We particularly welcome applications from those who arefrom a global majority background and/or those who aredisabled,as they are under-represented within our organisation.
We are a Disability Confident Employer, which means that we are actively working to ensure that candidates with disabilities and long-term health conditions feel supported, engaged and able to fulfil their potential in the workplace. We will endeavour to offer an interview to candidates who tell us they wish to participate in the scheme and who demonstrate in their application that they meet the essential criteria for the role, though sometimes due to the volume of qualified candidates with declarations this is not possible.
The RBO is also committed to safeguarding and protecting all children, young people, and adults and we implement robust safer recruitment practices. Due to our safeguarding promise, certain roles will be subject to a DBS check before commencing employment with us, which will be indicated in the advertising.
A full job description can be found here.
For more information about working with the Royal Ballet and Opera, please review the info pack here.
For a list of potential reasonable adjustments, please review this guidance document. If you have any access requirements for your application, please contact the RBO Recruitment Team onhr.recruitment@roh.org.uk
If you are applying as an internal candidate, you might find this guidance document helpful.
Closing date for applications: 11:59pm, 1st October 2026
To ensure a fair process, late applications will not be considered under any circumstances.
Applicants must have work authorisation for the UK. No agencies.
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