Azure Cloud Engineer

Overview

In this role you will drive the transformation of traditional infrastructure into modern, software-defined platforms on a cloud-centric stack. You collaborate across tech teams to deliver secure, scalable Azure solutions while leveraging automation, IaC, and AI capabilities. The role focuses on building cloud-native platforms, optimizing cost and performance, and enabling self-service tooling in a fast-evolving environment. This is a hands-on position with impact on platform maturity and innovation.

Pay / Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements
• Health and wellbeing rewards
• Share purchase plan with company contribution
• Recognition awards and team events
• Career development and growth opportunities
• Welcoming, close-knit culture

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, and maintain secure, scalable cloud solutions across Azure, ensuring performance, reliability, cost efficiency, governance, and alignment with business and digital platform objectives
• Develop cloud-native automation, containerised workloads (Kubernetes), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD pipelines, and AI platform capabilities, including Azure AI services, reusable patterns, landing zones, observability, and operational handover
• Apply cloud security best practices, identity and access management, encryption, monitoring, compliance controls, and operational processes to maintain secure and resilient environments
• Partner with engineering, architecture, operations, networking, security, and DevOps teams to integrate solutions, support change management, create self-service tooling and documentation, and drive user enablement and training
• Monitor KPIs, report on cloud adoption, uptime and cost optimisation, support agile delivery practices, and evaluate emerging cloud and AI technologies to enhance platform capabilities and business value

Key requirements

• Azure DevOps administration and platform management
• Strong understanding of Git version control, branching strategies, and pull request workflows
• Experience designing and implementing Azure Enterprise-Scale Landing Zones
• Configuration and management of Azure Firewall solutions
• Design and deployment of secure Azure Virtual WAN (vWAN) environments
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform
• Development, management, and lifecycle maintenance of Terraform modules
• Experience with AI platforms and services, including Azure AI Foundry and Large Language Models (LLMs)
• Machine Learning knowledge, including frameworks such as TensorFlow
• Automation-first mindset with strong DevOps practices and ways of working
• Experience implementing and managing Azure Front Door and Firewall solutions
• Previous experience working within a Financial Services or other highly regulated environment

• Collaborative mindset
• Continuous learner
• Strong problem-solving abilities
• Azure DevOps administration
• Git version control and PR workflows
• Azure Enterprise-Scale Landing Zones

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