Role Purpose The Senior Cloud Engineer is a senior, hands-on role responsible for engineering, operating and continuously improving the company’s Microsoft Azure cloud platform and supporting cloud services such as Auth0.

The role will design and implement secure, resilient, scalable and supportable cloud solutions within agreed architecture principles, standards and guardrails. The engineer will take ownership of work from technical analysis and solution design through implementation, testing, deployment, documentation and operational handover.

Excellent communication, proactive collaboration, strong engineering judgement and the ability to work independently are essential.

Key Accountabilities

Cloud Engineering and Automation

- Design, build, maintain and continuously improve Microsoft Azure infrastructure and platform services.
- Take end-to-end engineering ownership of allocated work, from requirements clarification through to operations, within agreed review, approval and change-management processes.
- Implement solutions across Azure networking, compute, storage, App Services, and associated platform services.
- Design, develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Azure Bicep and Terraform.
- Develop reusable modules, templates and deployment patterns that enable consistent and repeatable deployment across environments.
- Build, maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.
- Ensure cloud infrastructure and configuration is version-controlled, tested, peer-reviewed, secure and repeatable.
- Support Azure-hosted data platforms, including Azure Databricks and associated infrastructure.
- Identify technical debt, manual activities and opportunities to improve engineering through automation.

Solution Design and Engineering Standards

- Contribute technical expertise to cloud solution design within agreed architecture principles, patterns and standards.
- Translate requirements and solution designs into practical engineering approaches and implementation plans.
- Assess solutions against security, resilience, scalability, performance, supportability, integration and cost requirements.
- Identify weaknesses or unnecessary complexity in proposed approaches and recommend improvements.
- Apply established cloud patterns, engineering standards and security guardrails.
- Review Infrastructure as Code, pipelines and engineering changes and provide constructive technical feedback.
- Identify proposed departures from agreed standards and escalate them with clear options, risks and recommendations.





The role contributes technical expertise to cloud architecture and solution design. Accountability for enterprise architecture, architecture governance, ownership of technical standards and the technology roadmap sits outside this role. Security, Reliability and Operations

- Apply cloud security good practice across Azure infrastructure and platform services.
- Implement appropriate identity and access controls using Microsoft Entra ID, Azure RBAC, managed identities and Privileged Identity Management.
- Apply secure Azure networking and private connectivity patterns.
- Embed appropriate security controls within Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines.
- Support infrastructure and code vulnerability identification, prioritisation and remediation.
- Implement effective monitoring, alerting and observability using Azure Monitor, diagnostic logging and other approved technologies.
- Support production incidents, problem investigation and root-cause analysis, implementing improvements to prevent recurrence.
- Ensure new and changed services are operationally ready and appropriately documented.
- Support disaster recovery, business continuity and cloud resilience activities.
- Apply practical cost disciplines, including tagging, rightsizing, cost monitoring and capacity optimisation.

Communication and Collaboration

- Communicate complex technical matters clearly and concisely to technical and non-technical colleagues.
- Proactively communicate progress, risks, blockers and dependencies, escalating issues early where appropriate.
- Clarify requirements and acceptance criteria where they are incomplete or technically unclear.
- Participate actively in planning, refinement, stand-ups, retrospectives, technical reviews, stakeholder discussions and incident calls.
- Collaborate effectively with cloud, software, data, integration, security and service management colleagues.
- Challenge proposed approaches constructively where there is evidence of material risk or a better alternative.
- Work independently without requiring detailed task-level supervision.
- Share knowledge through documentation, walkthroughs, peer reviews and structured knowledge transfer.

Essential Knowledge and Experience





- Significant hands-on experience implementing and operating production environments within Microsoft Azure.
- Strong practical experience across Azure compute, storage, networking and App Services.
- Strong understanding of Azure identity and security, including Microsoft Entra ID, RBAC, managed identities and privileged access.
- Strong Infrastructure as Code experience using Azure Bicep and Terraform.
- Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.
- Experience implementing monitoring, logging and alerting using Azure Monitor or comparable technologies.
- Experience supporting production services and troubleshooting complex cloud infrastructure issues.
- Sound understanding of cloud security, resilience, operational readiness and FinOps principles.
- Strong understanding of DevOps practices, version control, peer review, testing and automated deployment.
- Demonstrable ability to analyse complex technical problems, evaluate alternative approaches and make evidence-based engineering recommendations.
- Ability to take ownership of complex engineering work without detailed task-level direction.
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills, including the ability to explain technical issues clearly to non-technical audiences.
- A proactive approach to communicating progress, risks and blockers, with the confidence to challenge constructively and escalate issues early.
- Experience working effectively as part of a cooperative, multi-disciplinary engineering team.

Desirable Knowledge and Experience

- Experience supporting Azure Databricks and Azure-based data platforms.
- Experience with Azure landing zones, management groups, subscriptions and Azure Policy.
- Experience with automated infrastructure testing or GitOps practices.
- Experience supporting disaster recovery and business continuity exercises.
- Experience mentoring engineers, providing technical guidance or conducting code reviews.
- Experience working across cloud, software, data and integration engineering.
- Understanding of ITIL-based change, incident and problem management.
- Understanding of AI-assisted software and infrastructure engineering approaches.

Qualifications

Practical engineering capability is more important than certification. Relevant certifications would be advantageous, including:

- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate.
- Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert.
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
- Relevant Microsoft Azure networking or security certifications.

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