Senior Cloud Engineer (Azure Platform & Infrastructure)

Your Responsibilities

Cloud Infrastructure Delivery

• Own cloud engineering activities required to deliver and operationalize solutions within Microsoft Azure environments.
• Design, provision, configure and maintain cloud environments across development, testing and production stages.

Cloud Architecture Implementation

• Convert approved solution architectures into deployable cloud designs covering: Subscriptions, Resource groups, Identity and access management, Networking, Compute services, Containers, Storage, Databases, Integration services, Monitoring, Backup and recovery.

Infrastructure as Code

• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or approved automation tools.
• Ensure environments remain version-controlled, repeatable, recoverable and traceable.

Networking & Connectivity

• Implement and manage: Virtual networks, Subnets, Routing, Private endpoints, DNS, Firewalls, Application gateways, Hub-and-spoke connectivity patterns.

Security & Access Management

• Configure: Role-based access control (RBAC), Managed identities, Service principals, Certificates, Secrets management.
• Apply least-privilege security principles.

Deployment & Project Support

• Collaborate with engineering and DevSecOps teams.
• Support environment setup, deployment, testing, release readiness and production cutover activities.

Operational Support

• Perform first-level troubleshooting across: Cloud infrastructure, Networking, Identity services, Deployment platforms.
• Coordinate with relevant teams when escalations are required.

Governance & Vendor Review

• Review cloud designs and configurations to ensure alignment with architecture, security and operational standards.
• Identify risks and support corrective actions.

Monitoring & Reliability

• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, backup, recovery, resilience, capacity planning and cost management controls.

Compliance & Security

• Support audits, vulnerability remediation, disaster recovery exercises and operational readiness activities.

Required Qualifications

Experience

• 3–5+ years of hands-on Azure infrastructure, cloud engineering, platform engineering or cloud operations experience.
• Proven experience delivering cloud-native solutions from provisioning through production handover.

Azure Expertise

• Strong practical experience with: Networking, Identity and access management, Compute services, Containers, Storage, Databases, Monitoring, Security controls, Backup and recovery, Production troubleshooting.

Infrastructure Automation

• Experience with Terraform or equivalent IaC tools.
• Experience with CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps or Jenkins.

Kubernetes & Containers

• Experience supporting containerized platforms and Kubernetes environments.
• Understanding of ingress, scalability, observability and deployment troubleshooting.

Governance & Security

• Knowledge of: Resource policies, Tagging strategies, Cost management, Least-privilege access, Secrets management, Certificates, Audit compliance.

Risk Assessment

• Ability to review vendor-delivered solutions and identify infrastructure or operational risks while maintaining proper accountability boundaries.

Scripting & Automation

• Proficiency in at least one scripting/programming language such as: PowerShell, Python, Go, Bash

Communication

• Ability to communicate technical risks and trade-offs effectively to engineers, security teams, infrastructure teams and business stakeholders.