Cloud Platform Engineer: Terraform, Azure & Self‑Service

NECSWS; Tees Valley; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical cover

25 days holiday

Life assurance

Pension contributions

Flexible benefits

LinkedIn Learning access

Job summary

NEC Software Solutions seeks a Cloud Platform Engineer to build and operate the core public cloud platform foundations used by all application workloads. The role emphasizes landing zones, identity integration, networking, and IaC frameworks, working closely with senior platform engineers and platform services teams.

You will contribute to automation, CI/CD, and self-service capabilities while supporting day-to-day platform operations, patches, and governance with Security and FinOps.

Qualifications

• Experience with Azure.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform).
• Understanding of cloud networking and identity fundamentals.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools.
• Experience working in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering environments.
• Working within ITIL frameworks.
• Ability to automate repetitive tasks using scripting (Bash, Python, PowerShell).
• Understanding of cloud governance basics.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain cloud landing zones, account/subscription structures, and baseline configurations.
• Provision and manage shared platform services (network hubs, identity integrations, management groups).
• Implement cloud IAM policies, RBAC, and federated identity integration.
• Automate identity provisioning and access workflows where possible.
• Build and maintain cloud networking components (VNets/VPCs, routing, DNS, gateways, private endpoints).
• Support connectivity patterns such as hub-and-spoke and private connectivity to on-premises.
• Develop and maintain Terraform templates and modules.
• Support CI/CD pipelines for platform provisioning and automation.
• Ensure environments are built consistently using code-driven approaches.
• Contribute to automation tooling, scripts, and internal platform tooling.
• Support self-service capabilities for application and product teams.
• Support day-to-day platform operations and incident response.
• Apply patches, upgrades, and maintenance to platform components.
• Assist with onboarding new cloud environments and subscriptions/accounts.
• Maintain engineering documentation, runbooks, and platform patterns.
• Collaborate with Security, FinOps, and Platform Services teams to embed operational and governance controls.

Skills

Azure

Terraform

Networking

CI/CD

DevOps

ITIL

Scripting

Governance

Education

Cloud certifications (AWS/Azure/OCI)

UK Security Clearance eligibility

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

NEC Software Solutions seeks a Cloud Platform Engineer to build and operate the core public cloud platform foundations used by all application workloads. The role emphasizes landing zones, identity integration, networking, and IaC frameworks, working closely with senior platform engineers and platform services teams.

You will contribute to automation, CI/CD, and self-service capabilities while supporting day-to-day platform operations, patches, and governance with Security and FinOps.