IT Senior Cloud Engineer

The IT Senior Cloud Engineer will join a team of customer-focused systems administrators, working to support Cloud infrastructure and services running on them, with a focus on Azure Platform. What you will do As an IT Senior Cloud Engineer responsible for Azure Platform, you will:

• Work within a team to support and enhance and transform our core IT Azure Cloud Infrastructure
• Implement and support key technologies in Microsoft environments - utilising infrastructure as code, automation and scripting where possible
• Ensure that business continuity measures are implemented and maintained to minimize the impact of systems failure
• Monitor, diagnose and proactively fix issues
• Own in-team technical projects associated with the improvement of cloud infrastructure
• Implement and maintain automated systems to administer systems and services at scale.
• Ensure that systems and procedural documentation is maintained and accurate
• Work closely with people across UIS and wider University, including software engineers, networks engineers, security staff, database administrators, project managers and service teams.
• Design systems / choose appropriate technologies ensure your technical skills are kept up to date

• Azure cloud infrastructure administration.
• Strong scripting and automation skills - Infrastructure as Code and Terraform experience would be particularly valuable
• Azure Identity (RBAC, Managed Identities), Management Groups, Azure Policy experience and Azure Backup/Recovery Services
• Operational skills on running and maintaining IaC tooling such as Azure DevOps, Gitlab
• Full stack understanding of how different layers of IT interoperate, from networking up to the application / service level. VMware hypervisor, networking and automation are useful skills to have.
• Strong troubleshooting skills
• Good communication, organisational and problem-solving skills

• a competitive salary with automatic service-related progression and annual cost-of-living increases
• a generous annual leave allowance of 41 days per year (including bank holidays)
• access to a hybrid pension scheme with attractive employer contributions
• access to a range of shopping and travel discounts through the Cambens scheme.

University Information Services (UIS) provides the digital infrastructure, business information and computing services at the heart of one of the world's top universities. The University of Cambridge has a bold ambition to use digitalisation to transform education and research, and UIS' team of developers, designers, testers, analysts and support staff is leading this exciting work.