Cloud Engineer

Peaple Talent; Leeds; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonus

Private Medical

25 days holiday

Job summary

Peaple Talent has partnered with a rapidly growing energy company to hire an Azure Cloud Engineer. You will lead the design, setup, and day-to-day management of the Microsoft Azure environment, focusing on landing zones, governance, security, networking, and monitoring standards.

You will use Terraform, Bicep, or ARM for IaC, drive automation, support CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, and lead VMware-to-Azure migrations with minimal disruption.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and managing Azure environments at scale.
• Proven cloud migration and transformation project experience.
• Hands-on with IaC and automation tools.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage the Azure environment including landing zones, governance, security, networking, and monitoring.
• Manage Azure services using IaC tools to ensure performance, reliability, cost control, and compliance.
• Support DevOps initiatives by aiding CI/CD adoption with Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.
• Lead cloud migration projects including VMware-to-Azure with minimal disruption.
• Provide technical leadership and practical automation to improve processes.

Skills

Strong infra engineering

Cloud-first mindset

Azure environments at scale

Cloud migration experience

Hybrid connectivity

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

PowerShell

Python

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Job description

Peaple Talent have partnered with a rapidly growing energy company at the heart of the transition to a low carbon future. They are looking for an Azure Cloud Engineer to join the team and lead the design, setup, and day-to-day management of the organisation’s Microsoft Azure environment, with a focus on cloud governance, landing zone architecture, and operational best practice.

The Role:

• Design, implement, and manage the organisation’s Microsoft Azure environment, including landing zones, governance, security, networking, and monitoring standards.
• Manage and optimise Azure services using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Bicep, or ARM, while ensuring performance, reliability, cost control, and compliance.
• Support DevOps and automation initiatives by helping teams adopt CI/CD pipelines, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, and infrastructure automation best practices.
• Lead cloud migration projects, including moving acquired Azure environments and on-prem VMware workloads into Azure with minimal disruption.
• Provide technical leadership and operational support by resolving complex issues, improving processes through automation, maintaining documentation, and delivering infrastructure projects with stakeholders.

The Candidate:

• Strong infrastructure engineering background with a cloud-first mindset and experience designing and managing Azure environments at scale.
• Proven experience delivering cloud migration and transformation projects, including Azure tenant migrations and VMware-to-Azure migrations.
• Hands-on expertise with Azure governance, landing zones, networking, identity, security, and hybrid connectivity.
• Experience using Infrastructure as Code and automation tools such as Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, PowerShell, or Python.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tools such as Azure DevOps or GitHub, with strong Windows Server experience and some Linux exposure desirable.

The Package:

• Performance bonus
• Private Medical
• 25 days holiday