Cloud Engineer
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Senior Cloud/ Platform Engineer:
The Cloud and Platform Engineer is responsible for building, automating, and supporting enterprise cloud and platform services in line with agreed architecture, security and technology standards. This hands-on role delivers and maintains scalable, secure, and resilient cloud-based and on-premises platforms, ensuring reliable day-to-day operation and seamless integration across business systems and services.
Key responsibilities include:
Build & Deployment: Implement, configure and deploy cloud infrastructure, hybrid environments and platform services in accordance with approved designs, standards and change processes.
Automation & Engineering: Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code, scripts and CI/CD pipelines to automate provisioning, configuration and patching, reducing manual effort and configuration drift.
Operations & Support: Provide escalated technical support, monitoring, performance tuning and lifecycle maintenance of cloud and platform services, including participation in on-call and after-hours change activity.
Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement: Work with architects, product owners, engineering squads, cyber security and external vendors to deliver and run platform solutions that support digital transformation initiatives.
Risk & Compliance: Apply security, regulatory and operational standards in build and run activities, including patching, vulnerability remediation, backup, disaster recovery and business continuity testing.
Requirements:
The Cloud and Platform Engineer is responsible for building, automating, and supporting enterprise cloud and platform services in line with agreed architecture, security and technology standards. This hands-on role delivers and maintains scalable, secure, and resilient cloud-based and on-premises platforms, ensuring reliable day-to-day operation and seamless integration across business systems and services.
Key responsibilities include:
Build & Deployment: Implement, configure and deploy cloud infrastructure, hybrid environments and platform services in accordance with approved designs, standards and change processes.
Automation & Engineering: Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code, scripts and CI/CD pipelines to automate provisioning, configuration and patching, reducing manual effort and configuration drift.
Operations & Support: Provide escalated technical support, monitoring, performance tuning and lifecycle maintenance of cloud and platform services, including participation in on-call and after-hours change activity.
Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement: Work with architects, product owners, engineering squads, cyber security and external vendors to deliver and run platform solutions that support digital transformation initiatives.
Risk & Compliance: Apply security, regulatory and operational standards in build and run activities, including patching, vulnerability remediation, backup, disaster recovery and business continuity testing.
Requirements:
- Minimum of three to five years' hands-on engineering experience across Azure public cloud and Microsoft 365
- Demonstrated experience with DevOps toolsets
- Practical scripting and automation experience (for example PowerShell, Bash or Python) and use of Infrastructure as Code tooling such as Bicep, ARM or Terraform
- Good working knowledge of public cloud management, governance, security, resilience and cost optimisation
- Strong troubleshooting skills across hybrid environments, with experience working to defined service levels within an ITSM framework
- Experience working within agile teams and contributing to sprint planning, estimation and delivery
- Azure Integration Services: APIM, Functions, App Service Plans, Data Factory, Service Bus, Logic Apps
- Azure Storage and Databases: Azure SQL Elastic Pool and Databases, Azure Blob, Files and Tables Storage
- Azure Network: vNet, UDR, NSG, Private Links, Private DNS, ExpressRoute
- DevOps: Azure DevOps and/or GitHub Enterprise
- Palo Alto NGFW: Firewall Rules
- AWS: Private Link, Transit Gateway