Senior Azure Cloud Engineer

Job Title: Senior Azure Cloud Engineer
Location: West Yorkshire/Hybrid (2 days per week in office)
Salary: £55,000 - £70,000 + excellent benefits

Why Apply?
An exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Azure Cloud Engineer to play a key role in a major cloud transformation project for a leading West Yorkshire organisation. This is a pivotal role where you will shape cloud infrastructure strategy, design innovative solutions, and ensure best practice implementation within a collaborative and forward-thinking environment.

Senior Azure Cloud Engineer Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy and manage Azure PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS services using tools like ARM templates, Bicep, and Terraform.
• Implement and maintain cloud security standards and best practices.
• Collaborate with IT, development, and architecture teams to evaluate and introduce new cloud services.
• Proactively monitor environments to identify and resolve security vulnerabilities.
• Work across both Linux and Windows environments to support infrastructure and applications.
• Lead on cloud engineering aspects of key technology projects, producing high-quality technical designs.
• Ensure alignment with overall technical strategies and non-functional requirements.
• Participate in an on-call rota to provide out-of-hours support.

Senior Azure Cloud Engineer Requirements:

• Strong experience managing Microsoft Azure technologies (AD, SQL Server, IIS, SCCM).
• Proven experience with build and release automation and CI/CD pipelines, preferably for Azure VMware Solution.
• Proficient in Scripting and programming languages such as Python, Bash, and PowerShell.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure automation tools (Ansible, Terraform, Bicep).
• Unix and Windows system administration, ideally in containerised environments.
• Solid understanding of enterprise infrastructure integration.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD tooling and enterprise networks (TCP/IP).
• Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator & Security Engineer qualifications.

What's in it for me?

• Competitive salary up to £70,000.
• Hybrid working - 2 days onsite in West Yorkshire.
• Private healthcare and enhanced pension scheme.
• Generous holiday allowance.
• Ongoing professional development and Microsoft certifications support.
• Opportunity to work on large-scale, enterprise cloud transformation projects.
• Exposure to the latest Azure technologies and cloud security practices.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.