Who we are

CreateFuture is fast becoming the UK’s most recognisable digital consultancy, with years of experience building digital products and services for major organisations whilst putting our people first. We have offices in the centre of Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, and London as well as remote employees located throughout the country. 

We are a team of creators - whether that’s code, project plans, go to market strategies, culture initiatives, marketing campaigns, large language models or people policies. And together, with our clients, we create the future. This has seen us collaborate and partner across a multitude of industries and sectors, with the likes of PayPal, adidas, Natwest, FanDuel and Money Saving Expert, to name just a few.

Our reputation as a partner determined to deliver high-quality, robust and thoughtful products has enabled us to scale to over 500 people in the last couple of years, and it is our amazing people - along with the safe, supportive and friendly culture we have built - that makes CreateFuture a great place to work. Don’t just take our word for it though, we have been recognised by Best Workplaces UK multiple years in a row - across a number of categories - and our employee exit rate is astonishingly low. 

Join us on our journey… Let’s create something awesome, together, today.

 

 

About the role and team:

You will be helping define and shape the Cloud Engineering capability of CreateFuture. As a Cloud Engineer, you’re someone who is confident in consulting and helping clients find the best possible solution - with that “right tool for the job” mindset.

We work with cloud native platforms through to large scale migrations. AWS is predominately our clients’ platforms but, in the future, we hope to scale out to Azure and GCP. Working by delivering these clients platforms via agile teams or working solo depending on the scale of the client.

We strive to create the best product possible with everyone's effort, and you'll be an integral part of that mission. Your role in the team is highly valued, and you'll be a key player in ensuring the success of our projects.

Our Engineering team at CreateFuture drive forward technology strategies, they also contribute to planning sessions and help to map out delivery roadmaps.

Our tech:

• Terraform, CDK or CloudFormation
• Ansible, Chef or Puppet
• Jenkins, GITHUB Actions or Gitlab Pipeline
• AWS

 

What you'll be doing:

• Providing advice and guidance to your team and clients on Cloud technologies
• Implementing Infrastructure as Code
• Providing configuration management
• Build pipelines including blue/green deployments and working with different pipeline tools and automating where required
• Implementing security by design when coding via IAC and building a pipeline
• Advising different ways to integrate into other systems whether on-premises or to other cloud platforms
• Creating documentation that allows the clients to understand what has been implemented
• Assisting the Cloud team in building standard solutions we can offer our clients

 

We'd love to talk to you if:

• You have previously helped external clients / internal teams reach their technical goals
• You are experienced when it comes to developing platforms using AWS
• You actively promote engineering best practices, clean code and unit testing
• Facilitate and encourage knowledge sharing within your team and across the wider Engineering department

 

 What we'll offer you:

At CreateFuture, we challenge ourselves to go beyond the obvious and we care deeply about our craft and customers. With us, you’ll have ambitious projects to sink your teeth into and plenty of opportunities to learn and grow. You’ll be part of our safe, supportive and friendly culture - that looks after you - and join our team of genuinely great people. 

Our benefits include:

• Total 35 days holiday (we have flexible bank holidays)
• Comprehensive private medical insurance
• Enhanced parental and adoption leave
• Pension - matched up to 5%

As this is a hybrid role, focussing on Scotland we’re looking for people within a commuting distance of our hub locations (Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester or London) and who are flexible to travel to client sites and CreateFuture regional offices. We are very flexible and trust you to manage your own schedule to balance face-to-face time with clients, colleagues and working from home.

We create and reinforce a culture that rewards employees’ impact, not just activity. We trust our employees to work autonomously and promote ownership across all levels.