Lead Cloud Engineer

JR United Kingdom; Newtownabbey; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

MCS Group is seeking a Lead Cloud Engineer for a global business establishing a center of excellence in Belfast. This role involves overseeing Azure cloud infrastructure, leading cloud operations, and building a dedicated engineering team. The ideal candidate will bring management experience and deep technical expertise in cloud environments.

Benefits

10% employer contribution pension

Up to 20% bonus

Generous annual leave with the option to buy more

Qualifications

• Strong technical background in cloud engineering/systems engineering.
• Recent management/leadership experience.
• Deep expertise with Azure and optimizing cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Manage cloud infrastructure primarily using Azure.
• Deploy and maintain cloud services.
• Build and lead a team of cloud engineers.

Skills

Azure

Terraform

CI/CD

Powershell

Bash

Cloud Infrastructure Management

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Location:

newtownabbey, United Kingdom

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Other

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Yes

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Posted:

24.06.2025

Expiry Date:

08.08.2025

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Job Description:

MCS Group are excited to be working with a new entrant to the local market in their search for a Lead Cloud Engineer. A thriving global business, our client has earmarked Belfast as a location to create a centre of excellence for Cloud, Data and Security practices. The Lead Cloud Engineer will fulfil a technical leadership role (very much player-coach to begin with) overseeing cloud infrastructure-primarily Microsoft Azure-to ensure high availability, security, performance, and cost-efficiency. You'll get the opportunity to build out and lead a team of cloud operations engineers and coordinate across departments like DevOps, Security, and Development to ensure seamless cloud operations within a global business.

The Lead Cloud Engineer will get heavily involved in:

• Cloud Infrastructure Management - Azure skills are critical for this role
• Cloud Service Deployment and Maintenance
• Security & Compliance
• Performance Monitoring & Cost Control
• Leadership & Collaboration - you'll get the chance to build and scale your own team of cloud engineers and system administrators over time.

The Ideal Candidate

• You'll have a strong technical background in cloud engineering and/or systems engineering with recent management and/or leadership experience.
• You'll have deep hands-on expertise with Azure (including subscriptions, services, networking, and identity management)
• Proven experience managing and optimising cloud environments, not just building them.
• Skilled in Terraform, CI/CD, automation, scripting (Powershell/Bash) and monitoring tools.
• Up to £85,000 with a fantastic benefits package which includes 10% employer contribution pension, up to 20% bonus, generous annual leave with the option to buy more.