Cloud Engineer

Role Title: Cloud Engineer (Azure)

Location: Sheffield, UK

Work setup: 3 days onsite/week

Key Responsibilities

· Architect and operate secure, scalable, and resilient cloud platforms across Azure and GCP, while supporting AWS integrations and workloads where required.

· Design and maintain end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and cloud-native tooling.

· Build reusable Infrastructure as Code modules and standards using Terraform, with strong state management and deployment governance.

· Deploy and manage container platforms and workloads across AKS and GKE as primary targets, with practical support for EKS.

· Own enterprise artifact lifecycle management using Nexus, Azure Repos, GitHub, GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions, including repository strategy, dependency governance, retention, and promotion controls.

· Implement DevSecOps controls including SAST, DAST, dependency and container image scanning, secrets management, and policy-as-code.

· Define release strategies, environment promotion flows, rollback mechanisms, and audit-ready deployment processes.

· Establish observability standards for logs, metrics, traces, and proactive alerting across cloud-native applications.

· Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements to reduce service disruption and improve recovery times.

· Drive cloud cost optimization and FinOps practices through resource governance, right-sizing, and utilization analysis.

· Collaborate with security, architecture, and engineering teams to ensure secure platform patterns and enterprise compliance.

· Mentor engineers and drive DevOps best practices, automation-first culture, and platform standardization.

Required Skills and Qualifications

· 10+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Platform Engineering, SRE, or related roles.

· Strong hands-on expertise in Azure and GCP services, architecture, and operations.

· Working knowledge of AWS for secondary multi-cloud support and integration use cases.

· Advanced experience with CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, and Jenkins.

· Deep Infrastructure as Code expertise with Terraform, including module design and lifecycle management.

· Strong containerization and orchestration experience with Docker and Kubernetes (AKS and GKE preferred).

· Mandatory hands-on experience with Nexus Repository Manager for artifact storage, versioning, security, and pipeline integration.

· Solid scripting and automation skills in Python, Bash, and PowerShell.

· Strong cloud security knowledge including IAM, RBAC, secrets and key management, encryption, and network security controls.

· Practical DevSecOps experience with vulnerability management and secure software supply chain practices.

· Experience implementing monitoring and observability using tools such as Azure Monitor, Google Cloud Operations, Prometheus, Grafana, and centralized logging platforms.

· Strong understanding of networking concepts including VNET, VPC, DNS, ingress, load balancing, and private connectivity patterns.

· Proven experience in regulated enterprise environments with strict governance, change control, and audit requirements.

· Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Preferred Certifications

Certifications are preferred, not mandatory. Equivalent hands-on multi-cloud experience is acceptable.

· Azure - AZ-400 / AZ-305 / AZ-104

· GCP - Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer / Professional Cloud Architect / Professional Cloud Security Engineer

· AWS - DevOps Engineer - Professional / Solutions Architect - Professional

· Platform and DevOps - Terraform Associate / CKA / CKS