Cloud Engineer

The role combines deep technical expertise in cloud engineering, server and policy configuration, virtualisation and infrastructure-as-code with strong operating discipline across FinOps, software asset management, backup / disaster recovery and supplier relationships. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable designing landing zones, hardening Windows and Linux servers, authoring Terraform / Bicep modules, optimising cloud spend and managing vendors - while automating repetitive work wherever possible.

• Act as the lead cloud engineer for the estate - architect, deploy and manage cloud infrastructure across Azure (primary), AWS and / or GCP, covering compute, storage,
• Design and manage cloud networking - virtual networks, subnets, load balancers, VPN / ExpressRoute, DNS, and firewall / NSG rules.networking and identity integration.
• Define landing zones, resource governance, tagging, RBAC and Azure Policy / guardrails for secure and consistent provisioning.
• Engineer scalability, resilience and high availability - auto-scaling, redundancy and multi-region / availability-zone design.
• Operate cloud-native services (containers, serverless, PaaS data services) in line with reference architectures and well-architected principles.

• Minimum 8-10 years of hands-on IT infrastructure experience across servers, virtualisation and cloud in an enterprise environment.
• Proven, deep expertise in Azure (primary) with working expertise in at least one of AWS or GCP; experience operating multi-cloud estates at scale.
• Strong track record of landing-zone design, cloud networking and governance (RBAC, tagging, Azure Policy / Service Control Policies).
• Hands-on experience configuring server, group and security policies and creating and governing virtual machines at scale across VMware / Hyper-V and cloud.
• Demonstrable experience managing cloud spend / FinOps - rightsizing, commitments, idle-resource elimination and chargeback / showback reporting.
• Experience owning backup, DR and business-continuity for mixed on-prem and cloud workloads with defined RPO / RTO.
• Experience managing infrastructure suppliers and cloud partners within ITIL-aligned operations.