We are looking for an Azure & DevOps Cloud Engineer to help manage and enhance our client's Microsoft Azure platform across development, staging, and production environments. Working closely with their engineering teams, you will play a key role in ensuring the company's cloud infrastructure is secure, scalable, reliable, and easy to deploy.

This is a hands-on role suited to someone who enjoys infrastructure engineering, automation, continuous improvement, and collaborating with developers to deliver software efficiently and safely.

Responsibilities

Design, deploy, and maintain Azure infrastructure across development, staging, and production environments.
Ensure the cloud platform remains highly available, scalable, reliable, and performs efficiently.
Administer core Azure services, including App Services, Virtual Machines, Storage Accounts, networking, and identity management.
Build, maintain, and optimise CI/CD pipelines to support reliable software deployments.
Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Infrastructure as Code.
Monitor platform health by maintaining logging, alerting, and observability through Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, and related Azure services.
Investigate and resolve infrastructure, deployment, networking, and performance-related issues.
Apply Azure security best practices, including RBAC, Managed Identities, Key Vault, secrets management, and network security controls.
Configure and manage Azure networking components such as VNets, private endpoints, DNS, firewalls, and routing.
Continuously review cloud usage to improve cost efficiency, resource utilisation, and overall platform performance.
Participate in incident management, root cause investigations, and the implementation of preventative improvements.
Keep the Azure environment aligned with current best practices by adopting platform enhancements, security updates, and new Azure capabilities where appropriate.

Requirements

A minimum of 3 years of experience working with Microsoft Azure in a Cloud Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, Systems Engineer, or DevOps position.
Proven experience deploying, configuring, and supporting Azure-based infrastructure.
Strong understanding of Azure services, including App Services, Virtual Machines, Storage, Networking, and Identity services.
Experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or comparable tools.
Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Bicep, or ARM Templates.
Solid knowledge of Azure networking concepts, including VNets, subnets, private endpoints, DNS, firewalls, and routing.
Experience monitoring production environments, troubleshooting technical issues, and improving platform performance.
Good understanding of cloud security, including identity and access management, secure networking, and secrets management.
Experience supporting live production systems and responding to technical incidents.

Cloud Engineer

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