Senior Cloud Engineer – Skipton Building Society
35 hrs per week, permanent, hybrid working. Closing date: Sat 29 Nov 2025.
As we continue to modernise and transform our IT services, we have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Cloud Engineer with a background of coaching and mentoring colleagues, alongside managing and deploying solutions as Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in Azure.
About the role
You will be part of a supportive and skilled team responsible for delivering change to our public cloud (Microsoft Azure). The role requires skills and experience across the Microsoft Azure stack to enable successful automation, monitoring and management of our Azure environment.
Utilising your skills and experience, you will support the Cloud Engineers to implement new ways of working aligned with best practice to develop and run our IT services in the cloud. You will coach and train Cloud Engineers who are implementing new technologies and processes: ensuring services are configured economically, efficiently and flexibly, with the right level of governance and control to keep our services and data safe.
What you’ll be doing
* Review and contribute to high‑level designs for cloud infrastructure delivery that meet operational needs, security standards, service levels, resilience and business change demand; draft, review and approve detailed designs.
* Support and coach Cloud Engineers.
* Monitor metrics and adjust configurations for optimum availability and performance.
* Configure the cloud platform for required functionality, performance and efficiency.
* Investigate and resolve problems.
What we need from you
* Relevant knowledge of the system development lifecycle and service management lifecycle.
* Hands‑on experience delivering IaC using Bicep or Terraform, ideally through Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.
* Experience in Agile teams (Scrum, SAFe or similar).
* Experience of core Azure services: Azure AD, Management Groups, Subscriptions, vNETs, Route Tables, NSGs, Azure Firewall, Application Gateway, Front Door, Key Vault, Azure Monitor, Azure Policy, Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
* Desirable: Python scripting, containerisation technologies (Kubernetes, Azure Kubernetes Service, App Services, Azure SQL).
* Agile-minded, optimistic, passionate, pragmatic about delivering value to customers.
* Collaborative mindset and ownership of tasks.
* Curiosity for technology and continuous improvement.
* Strong communication, ability to work with stakeholders.
* Experience mentoring, helping and coaching colleagues.
What’s in it for you
* Annual discretionary bonus scheme.
* 25 days standard annual leave + bank holidays + rising 1 day per year of service up to 30 days.
* Holiday trading scheme.
* Matching employer pension contribution (up to 10% per annum).
* Colleague mortgage (conditions apply).
* Salary sacrifice scheme for hybrid & electric car.
* Commitment to training and development.
* Private medical insurance.
* 3 paid volunteering days per annum.
* Diverse inclusion networks.
* Health & wellbeing benefits: cycle‑to‑work initiative, discounted gym membership.
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