Salary: £78,000 - 78,000 per year Requirements: We require strong hands-on experience in Azure infrastructure and platform engineering. We require proven experience with Azure landing zones and governance frameworks. We require experience with Infrastructure as Code, with Terraform preferred. We require experience with identity and access management, including Entra ID or Azure AD. We require experience with monitoring and observability tooling. We require experience working in environments undergoing cloud transformation. We require the ability to work across engineering and architecture with a focus on practical implementation. We require strong communication skills and a collaborative approach. We prefer candidates with experience supporting business continuity and disaster recovery strategies. We prefer candidates with experience migrating on-premise data platforms into Microsoft Fabric. Responsibilities: We will expect you to mature and enhance our Azure landing zones in line with Cloud Adoption Framework principles. We will expect you to implement governance, policy, and identity standards across our cloud environment. We will expect you to develop core platform capabilities, including API Management, Web Application Firewall, logging, monitoring, and observability. We will expect you to introduce and scale Infrastructure as Code across our environment. We will expect you to contribute to the design and implementation of business continuity and disaster recovery strategies. We will expect you to support the migration of on-premise data platforms into Microsoft Fabric. We will expect you to work collaboratively with architects and engineering teams to embed best practices and improve our cloud capability. We will expect you to help evolve our Azure environment from an early-stage setup into a mature, secure, and scalable cloud platform. Technologies: API Azure Cloud Fabric Firewall Support Terraform Web DevOps Security WAF More: We are supporting a UK-based organisation undertaking a significant, multi-year technology transformation, with major investment in our cloud platform. We offer a collaborative environment with a growing cloud function, where you will have the opportunity to influence direction, establish standards, and help shape our Azure capability. This is a hands-on Principal Cloud Engineer role based in Manchester with a hybrid working model requiring one day per week on-site, and it offers a salary of up to £78,000 plus bonus. last updated 21 week of 2026