Senior Cloud Systems Engineer (Azure)

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

7/25/2025

About The Role

Join MMT's dynamic Systems Team on an exciting project focused on continuous improvement, best practice infrastructure, pipelines, monitoring and insights. We're looking for a Senior Cloud Systems Engineer with deep Azure expertise to help deliver effective solutions through collaboration and innovation.

You'll be working within a mature scaled agile environment, supporting work across 2 scrum teams, where you'll take ownership of critical infrastructure components while mentoring junior team members and driving commercial opportunities.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure & CI/CD Leadership

• Take ownership of CI/CD toolchain implementation, ensuring efficient and scalable deployment pipelines
• Design and deploy cloud infrastructure with focus on cost efficiency, security, and maintainability
• Advocate for and implement best practices in CI/CD for continuous delivery and zero downtime
  
  

Collaboration & Technical Excellence

• Collaborate with Senior CSEs and Lead to design robust controls ensuring safety and accuracy of deliverables
• Work closely with Development teams and Technical Architects to deliver solutions on time and within budget
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks to optimize system reliability
  
  

Innovation & Improvement

• Proactively identify opportunities for improvement within client solutions
• Drive commercial discussions to enable implementation of improvements
• Perform Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) tasks and infrastructure responsibilities
  
  

Documentation & Communication

• Maintain and produce comprehensive documentation for all implemented solutions
• Troubleshoot and resolve service issues efficiently
• Represent MMT professionally, upholding company values in all client interactions
  
  

Essential Technical Requirements

Must Have:

• Demonstrable Azure cloud and tooling expertise (certifications a bonus)
• Hands-on Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform (minimum 2+ years)
• Highly confident in System & Cloud Architecture (Azure) and scalable design patterns
• Experience producing infrastructure topologies and network diagrams
• Security by design principles and implementation knowledge
• Proven experience with Azure DevOps or GitHub (intermediate to advanced level)
• Experience with containerisation technologies (Docker)
• Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools (Application Insights or similar)
  
  

Additional Technical Skills:

• Strong analytical skills with ability to identify trends and patterns quickly
• Excellent troubleshooting skills for complex technical problems
• Hands-on software engineering experience (Python, Go, Bash, PowerShell, JavaScript, Java, C#)
• Experience working in complex client-based environments
  
  

Essential Soft Skills

• Embrace team culture of support, enablement and innovation
• Strategic planning capabilities considering business objectives and implementation roadmaps
• Mentorship and coaching abilities for junior team members
• Experience working with and communicating effectively with clients
• Strong business level English
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with confidence to voice issues professionally
  
  

Tech Stack

• Cloud Platform: Azure
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
• Containerization: Docker
• Development Tools: Visual Studio Code, Azure CLI, PowerShell
• Methodology: Scrum/Agile
  
  

Ready to Join Our Team?

If you're passionate about Azure cloud technologies, have a proven track record in infrastructure automation, and want to work on challenging projects with a collaborative team, we'd love to hear from you.

Note: This role requires specific Azure expertise. We are looking for candidates with established Azure experience rather than those needing to cross-train from other cloud platforms.