Azure Cloud Engineer - Warwickshire - £60-70,000

Azure Cloud Engineer - Warwickshire - £60-70,000

We are currently working with a reputable business in Northamptonshire that is actively recruiting for an Azure Cloud Engineer to join on a permanent basis. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a business that has a reputation for developing people and promoting from within.

The key purpose of the role is to drive forward the company's work with Azure, acting as a subject matter expert regarding Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and DevOps principles and best practices.

This is a hybrid position with 1-2 days per week on-site.

Responsibilities:

• Ensuring a smooth rollout of DevOps practices across technology teams, including carrying out training and writing documentation
• Develop a long-term strategy for the effective use of cloud and IaC technologies across the business
• Utilising Platform as a Service and work to Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework
• Working with Terraform to build CI/CD pipelines in Azure
• Writing Terraform templates and modules
• Working closely with key stakeholders to gain buy-in of DevOps and IaC plans and strategy
• Lead the migration of key services from VMware platform into Azure

Key skills required:

• Extensive experience in similar Azure Cloud Engineer roles
• Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and Infrastructure as Code experience
• Scripting and automation experience with PowerShell or similar
• Strong experience with Azure DevOps
• Highly competent working with CI/CD pipelines
• Comfortable working in hybrid cloud/on-prem environments, familiar with Windows Server, SQL Server and VMware
• Ability to effectively coach colleagues on best practices
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Relevant Azure certificates

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