Azure Cloud Engineer - Production Ops & Automation

Speria; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Speria is seeking a hands-on Cloud Engineer to support customer-facing Microsoft Azure environments across EMEA. You will build and maintain live Azure infrastructure, troubleshoot issues, and improve reliability with automation and monitoring.

This role blends infrastructure engineering with production operations, not a pure help desk or purely architectural position. Strong customer communication in English is essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in cloud infrastructure engineering, systems engineering, or related role.
• Strong hands-on Microsoft Azure experience in production environments.
• Experience with Azure networking, compute, storage, identity, monitoring, and security.
• PowerShell scripting and automation experience with practical examples.
• Windows Server and systems administration background.
• Experience supporting production systems or B2B SaaS.</n>

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, and support Microsoft Azure infrastructure for customer environments.
• Manage Azure networking, compute, storage, identity, monitoring, security, databases, and hosting components.
• Support onboarding, provisioning, go-lives, production cutovers, and stabilization.
• Monitor health, availability, performance, capacity, and cloud cost signals; drive improvements.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, connectivity, database, performance, and Azure issues for live environments.
• Review logs, identify root causes, and escalate when needed.
• Automate repetitive ops with PowerShell.
• Improve alerts, runbooks, and documentation.
• Collaborate with customer IT teams and internal groups.
• Occasional after-hours or weekend work for go-lives or cutovers.

Skills

Azure experience

PowerShell scripting

Windows Server

Customer-facing comms

Troubleshooting

English proficiency

Automation

Tools

Terraform

Azure Monitor

CI/CD

Job description

Speria is seeking a hands-on Cloud Engineer to support customer-facing Microsoft Azure environments across EMEA. You will build and maintain live Azure infrastructure, troubleshoot issues, and improve reliability with automation and monitoring.

This role blends infrastructure engineering with production operations, not a pure help desk or purely architectural position. Strong customer communication in English is essential.