Lead Cloud Engineer

JR United Kingdom; Gloucester; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking an Azure Cloud Engineer Lead to join their growing engineering team. This role offers a greenfield opportunity to work on innovative solutions and enhance existing systems. As a remote-first company, they value personal growth through training and provide a supportive environment with excellent benefits, including generous holidays and private healthcare.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowances

Bonus scheme

Private healthcare

Qualifications

• Significant experience with Azure cloud infrastructure.
• Lead experience in designing and deploying cloud solutions, ideally in a SaaS environment.
• Hands-on role with leadership responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy a new Azure cloud platform.
• Lead and mentor a team of engineers.
• Remain hands-on while developing cloud solutions.

Skills

Azure cloud infrastructure

Pipeline creation

GitHub Actions

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Container orchestration

Job description

Westbrook Recruitment is looking for an Azure Cloud Engineer Lead to join a talented and growing engineering team to build a new Azure cloud platform.

This role is suitable for an Azure Cloud Engineer with some previous lead experience seeking a greenfield opportunity involving cutting-edge solutions designed to enhance and integrate with clients' existing data and management systems.

Technical Skills include:

• Significant experience with Azure cloud infrastructure, including design, build, deployment, and continuous integration.
• Pipeline creation, ideally with Azure DevOps (ADO).
• Experience with GitHub Actions and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
• Container orchestration with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

The role focuses on design, build, and deployment, remaining hands-on, with a leadership component for a team of engineers tasked with building a new SaaS platform.

The organization encourages personal growth through training and accreditation, valuing real-world experience over purely theoretical qualifications.

They are a remote-first company but would appreciate the ability to visit the Bucks office once a month.

The client offers generous holiday allowances, a bonus scheme, private healthcare, and more.

If you are interested, please apply for a qualifying conversation.