Cloud Engineer

You will collaborate closely with the engineering teams to develop, manage and continuously enhance the company’s Microsoft Azure infrastructure across production, staging and development environments.

This is a hands-on technical role suited to someone who enjoys tackling infrastructure challenges, introducing automation, strengthening platform reliability and enabling development teams to deploy applications securely and efficiently.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure and maintain Azure infrastructure across production, staging and development environments.
• Continuously improve the scalability, availability, reliability and performance of the cloud platform.
• Administer key Azure services, including App Service, Virtual Machines, Storage Accounts, networking and identity services.
• Maintain and enhance CI/CD pipelines and software deployment processes.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployment and configuration wherever possible.
• Manage monitoring, logging, alerting and application observability using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics and related technologies.
• Diagnose and resolve issues relating to cloud infrastructure, networking, deployments and system performance.
• Apply cloud security best practices, including RBAC, managed identities, Key Vault, network controls and secrets management.
• Configure and manage VNets, private endpoints, DNS, firewalls and other Azure networking components.
• Identify opportunities to optimise cloud expenditure, resource utilisation and overall platform performance.
• Contribute to incident response activities, including root-cause analysis and the implementation of preventative improvements.
• Ensure the Azure environment remains current by adopting appropriate platform enhancements, security updates and cloud best practices.

Required Skills & Experience

• A minimum of 3 years of hands-on Microsoft Azure experience within cloud engineering, infrastructure, systems engineering or DevOps.
• Proven experience in deploying, configuring and supporting Azure resources.
• Strong working knowledge of core Azure services, including App Service, Virtual Machines, networking, storage and identity.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines, using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or similar technologies.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, using ARM Templates, Bicep or Terraform.
• Solid knowledge of networking concepts, including VNets, subnets, private endpoints, DNS, firewalls and routing.
• Practical experience with monitoring, logging, troubleshooting and performance optimisation.
• Good understanding of cloud security principles, including access control, secrets management and secure networking.
• Experience supporting production environments and investigating technical incidents.
• A proactive, hands-on and solution-focused approach to technical challenges.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with software engineering teams.