Infrastructure Cloud Engineer

Company: Hays
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Location: Manchester
Job Description:

Overview

In this role you will design, implement and optimize enterprise-scale cloud environments to support critical operations around the clock. You will work in a complex, multi-site setting to shape cloud strategy, improve security, and drive automation in collaboration with operations, security, and technical teams. You will build secure, scalable Azure infrastructure, support business-critical services, and contribute to cloud transformation initiatives. This is an opportunity to impact resilience, cost-efficiency and governance at scale.

Pay / Benefits

  • ongoing career development and training

Responsibilities

  • Design and support Microsoft Azure cloud environments
  • Build highly available, scalable and secure infrastructure platforms
  • Implement Infrastructure as Code and automation solutions
  • Manage cloud networking, security, identity and access management
  • Monitor system performance, availability and reliability
  • Support disaster recovery, backup and business continuity planning
  • Drive security improvements and cloud governance initiatives
  • Optimize cloud spend and infrastructure performance
  • Produce technical documentation, standards and operational procedures
  • Collaborate with infrastructure, operations and security teams on strategic projects

Key requirements

  • Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure
  • Experience supporting enterprise infrastructure environments
  • Knowledge of cloud security and governance best practices
  • Experience with infrastructure automation and scripting
  • Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
  • Good understanding of networking principles including DNS, VPNs and virtual networking
  • Experience supporting Windows and/or Linux server environments
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • Automation
  • Cloud security
  • Governance

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Posted: October 1st, 2026