Azure Cloud Architect & Infrastructure Engineer

OCU Group; Preston; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

OCU Group in Preston seeks a Cloud and Infrastructure Engineer to design, deploy, and optimise our Microsoft Azure environment. You will lead third-line support, drive automation and IaC, and collaborate across Service Desk, DevOps, Security and Applications teams to maintain high availability.

The role focuses on secure, scalable cloud architectures, disaster recovery, and cost-efficient operations within an enterprise landscape.

Qualifications

• 3-5+ years in Cloud or infrastructure engineering in an enterprise setting.
• Strong hands-on Azure experience including Entra ID, networking, compute and storage.
• Experience handling major incidents, problem management and RCA.
• Knowledge of cloud security, governance, compliance and identity management.
• Experience with backup, monitoring and service management.

Responsibilities

• Provide third-line support for Azure, M365 and infrastructure services.
• Design, build and maintain secure Azure solutions incl networking, compute, storage.
• Manage cloud security, identity controls, compliance and resilience.
• Own backup, recovery and DR services aligned to BC requirements.
• Develop monitoring and observability with Azure Monitor and Log Analytics.
• Drive automation and IaC using Terraform, Bicep, Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.
• Monitor performance, availability and SLAs for cloud services.
• Collaborate with internal teams, vendors and MSPs to support cloud services.
• Produce documentation and training materials for wider teams.

Skills

Azure

Cloud engineering

Incident management

Automation

Terraform

Bicep

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Azure Virtual Desktop

Security & compliance

Python scripting

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

PowerShell

Python

Azure Monitor

Log Analytics

Job description

OCU Group in Preston seeks a Cloud and Infrastructure Engineer to design, deploy, and optimise our Microsoft Azure environment. You will lead third-line support, drive automation and IaC, and collaborate across Service Desk, DevOps, Security and Applications teams to maintain high availability.

The role focuses on secure, scalable cloud architectures, disaster recovery, and cost-efficient operations within an enterprise landscape.