Senior Cloud Engineer

We are looking for an accomplished and innovative Senior Cloud Engineer to join a collaborative Cloud Platform team, helping to manage, develop, and optimise a large Azure cloud environment. You will play a key role in delivering secure, scalable and resilient infrastructure that underpins the organisation's cloud strategy.

The ideal candidate will bring expertise across Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform (IaC), CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar), and cloud automation. You will provide technical leadership, support operational excellence, mentor junior engineers, and drive continuous service improvements. A proactive mindset, strong troubleshooting capability, and the ability to draw insights from performance data will be essential.

This opportunity suits someone who thrives in a modern cloud environment, enjoys solving complex engineering challenges, and values cross-team collaboration.

Core Responsibilities include:

• Manage and optimise Azure cloud infrastructure, ensuring stability, performance, and reliability
• Provide L2/L3 support for incidents, troubleshooting cloud-related issues
• Lead Kubernetes cluster operations and support containerised workloads
• Maintain and enhance Terraform Infrastructure as Code modules
• Participate in CI/CD automation using GitHub Actions or similar tooling
• Analyse observability data to produce insights and recommendations
• Ensure effective monitoring using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, AppDynamics or Splunk
• Drive automation across cloud operations following SRE and DevOps principles
• Support junior engineers through mentoring and knowledge sharing
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement platform improvements
• Maintain clear documentation for procedures, configuration and operational readiness

• 24/7 on-call L2/L3 support experience
• Experience with a major cloud platform (Azure preferred)
• Familiarity with monitoring tools for troubleshooting and insight gathering
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar)
• Strong experience with Terraform or similar IaC tooling