Cloud Engineer

Speria; Chesterfield; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Speria is seeking a hands-on Cloud Engineer to support customer-facing Microsoft Azure environments across EMEA from the United Kingdom. This role blends cloud infrastructure engineering, systems administration, production operations, deployment support, and direct customer interaction.

You will help build new environments, keep live platforms healthy, troubleshoot customer-impacting issues, and improve reliability through monitoring, automation, documentation, and repeatable operating

Qualifications

• 5+ years in cloud infrastructure or related role.
• Hands-on Azure production experience.
• Proficiency with PowerShell and automation.
• Windows Server administration.
• Strong troubleshooting and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, and support Azure infrastructure for customer environments.
• Manage Azure networking, compute, storage, identity, monitoring, security, and databases.
• Support onboarding, provisioning, go-lives, cutovers, and post-deployment stabilization.
• Monitor health, performance, capacity, and cloud cost signals.
• Troubleshoot issues affecting live customer environments.
• Review logs, identify root causes, and escalate as needed.
• Automate operations with PowerShell.
• Improve alerts, runbooks, and documentation.
• Collaborate with customer IT teams and internal groups.
• Occasional after-hours for go-lives.

Skills

Microsoft Azure

PowerShell

Windows Server

Incident response

Automation

Tools

Terraform

Azure Monitor

Git

CI/CD

Job description

About The Opportunity

Speria is looking for a hands-on Cloud Engineer to support customer-facing Microsoft Azure environments across EMEA. This role combines cloud infrastructure engineering, systems administration, production operations, deployment support, and direct customer interaction. You will help build new environments, keep live platforms healthy, troubleshoot customer-impacting issues, and improve reliability through monitoring, automation, documentation, and repeatable operating practices.

This is not a traditional help desk role or a purely architectural position. It is designed for an engineer who enjoys both creating infrastructure and owning what happens after it goes live.

Speria provides enterprise technology that helps the live animal protein industry use real-time information to improve operational insight and responsible production across the supply chain.

What You Will Do

• Design, deploy, configure, and support Microsoft Azure infrastructure for customer environments.
• Manage Azure networking, compute, storage, identity, monitoring, security, databases, and application-hosting components within the scope of the role.
• Support customer onboarding, environment provisioning, implementations, go-lives, production cutovers, and post-deployment stabilization.
• Monitor environment health, availability, performance, capacity, and cloud cost signals; identify and drive improvement opportunities.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, connectivity, database, performance, and Azure platform issues affecting live customer environments.
• Review logs and monitoring data, identify root causes, resolve issues independently where possible, and escalation effectively when development or other specialists are needed.
• Automate repetitive operational and administrative work with PowerShell.
• Improve alerts, monitoring coverage, runbooks, standards, documentation, and repeatable operating procedures.
• Work directly with customer IT teams on Azure, networking, security, connectivity, deployment, and incident-related needs.
• Partner across Engineering, Infrastructure, Projects, Product, Development, and customer-facing teams.
• Participate in occasional after-hours or weekend work when required for approved customer go-lives or production cutovers.

What You Bring

• 5+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure engineering, systems engineering, infrastructure operations, or a related technical role.
• Strong hands‑on Microsoft Azure experience in production environments.
• Experience with Azure networking, compute, storage, identity, monitoring, and security.
• Proficiency with PowerShell scripting and automation, supported by practical examples.
• Windows Server and systems administration experience.
• Experience supporting production systems, customer-facing applications, hosted cloud environments, or B2B SaaS platforms.
• Strong troubleshooting, incident‑response, root‑cause analysis, documentation, and continuous‑improvement skills.
• Confidence communicating in English with internal stakeholders and external customer IT teams.
• A proactive operating mindset focused on preventing incidents, not only reacting to them.

Helpful, But Not Required

• Terraform or another Infrastructure as Code platform.
• Azure App Insights, Stackify, Redgate, SQL Monitor, or comparable monitoring and observability tools.
• Azure SQL, SQL Server, Cosmos DB, Databricks, Git, or CI/CD pipeline exposure.
• Microsoft Azure certifications such as Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or similar.
• Experience in an MSP, consulting, implementation, or multi‑customer cloud environment.
• Python or Bash scripting; cloud cost optimization; SOC 2 or ISO 27001 familiarity.
• Experience working with globally distributed teams. German language capability is a plus if aligned to the final market strategy.

How Success Will Be Measured

• Reliable deployment and support of customer Azure environments.
• Successful customer onboarding, go‑live, and post‑deployment stabilization.
• Stronger EMEA cloud support coverage during European business hours.
• Timely, well‑communicated resolution of infrastructure, networking, connectivity, and platform issues.
• Improved monitoring, automation, documentation, and operational repeatability.
• Strong collaboration with internal teams and customer IT stakeholders.

EEO Statement

Integrated into our shared values is Speria MTech’s commitment to diversity and equal employment opportunity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, age, race, color, creed, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, military service, genetic information, or any other characteristic or conduct protected by law. Speria MTech is committed to being a globally inclusive company where all people are treated fairly, recognized for their individuality, promoted based on performance, and encouraged to strive to reach their full potential. We believe in understanding and respecting differences among all people. Every individual at Speria MTech has an ongoing responsibility to respect and support a globally diverse environment.

Speria delivers operational intelligence solutions for food systems, helping producers and integrators improve efficiency, build predictability and enable greater productivity. This means improving feed conversion, reducing waste and emissions, and supporting animal health and welfare.