Senior Cloud Engineer (Azure)
£6k training allowance + Share Options | Hybrid London (2–3 days/week)
Why Join?
This company brings together strategy experts, data scientists, software engineers, and cloud specialists to solve high-impact problems across the UK’s private and public sectors. They build analytics platforms, digital products, and AI solutions that deliver meaningful, measurable outcomes, not just business value, but societal impact too.
They’re now scaling their cloud capability and hiring a Senior Cloud Engineer to shape the Azure foundations powering advanced analytics, AI, and platform engineering. You’ll work across cloud, data, and software architecture, building secure, modern infrastructure used nationwide. Reporting into a new Cloud Lead with deep AWS experience, your Azure expertise will immediately influence direction and standards.
The Role
You’ll design, automate, and optimise Azure environments across multiple products and data-driven workloads. This is a high-ownership role working closely with engineering, product, and AI teams.
You will:
* Design and build scalable Azure architectures across multi-disciplinary teams
* Automate provisioning & deployments (Terraform/ARM/Bicep, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions)
* Deliver containerised & serverless solutions (AKS, Container Apps, Functions, Helm)
* Implement secure identity, networking & infrastructure patterns (Entra ID, VNets, Firewalls, Key Vault)
* Support Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL/MySQL environments
* Enable data & AI teams with pipelines, ML workloads & platforms like Azure Foundry/Hub/Search
* Embed DevSecOps, Zero Trust & FinOps best practice
* Offer technical mentorship & help shape a growing cloud function
What You’ll Bring
* Strong experience building Azure-first cloud solutions
* Expert in Terraform/ARM/Bicep and CI/CD automation
* Deep containerisation skills (AKS, Kubernetes, Docker)
* Scripting ability (Bash, Python or similar)
* Confidence collaborating across multiple projects and teams
* Proactive, relationship-driven approach
* Bonus: any AWS exposure
Benefits
* £6k training/conference allowance
* EMI share options
* Matched pension (up to 6%)
* Vitality healthcare
* Work abroad up to 1 month/year
* 25 days AL + buy/sell 5
* Cycle to work scheme
* Central London office with events & premium refreshments
* Retail, tech, travel & fitness discounts