Senior Azure Cloud Engineer | Terraform & AKS Expert

Janus Henderson; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid role

Health benefits

Annual bonus

Pension

Professional development

Lunch allowance

Wellbeing programs

Job summary

Janus Henderson is seeking a senior Azure Cloud Engineer in Greater London to lead hands-on cloud delivery within our Cloud COE. You will architect and operate Azure infrastructure, AKS clusters, and enterprise landing zones, while driving automation and governance across hybrid estates.

The role emphasizes strong scripting, CI/CD expertise, and collaboration with Security, Architecture, and Platform Engineering teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on cloud engineering with Microsoft Azure.
• Terraform module design, pipelines, and governance.
• Deep knowledge of core Azure services: compute, storage, networking, identity.
• Hands-on with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Experience with Azure networking (VNet, DNS, Private Endpoints, ExpressRoute/VPN).
• Entra ID and RBAC experience.
• Experience supporting BAU operations, incident management, and troubleshooting.
• Strong scripting in PowerShell, Bash, or Python.
• CI/CD pipelines using GitHub or Azure DevOps.
• Knowledge of cloud security, governance, and enterprise-scale environments.
• Desirable: AVS, Azure Arc, FinOps, and related certifications.

Responsibilities

• Build, configure, and manage Azure infrastructure services (compute, storage, networking, backup).
• Support deployment of enterprise landing zones, shared services, and workloads.
• Implement cloud solutions aligned to architecture patterns and standards.
• Develop and maintain Terraform modules and reusable components.
• Deliver provisioning via CI/CD pipelines using GitHub or Azure DevOps.
• Ensure deployments are version-controlled, policy-compliant, and auditable.
• Manage drift detection, environment consistency, and release governance.
• Work hands-on across Azure subscriptions, RBAC, policy, VMs, storage, DR, Monitor.
• Deploy, configure, and support AKS clusters; manage scaling and upgrades.
• Support container platform operations, monitoring, and reliability.

Skills

Azure

AKS

Networking

RBAC

CI/CD

PowerShell

Python

Automation

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

Azure DevOps

Job description

Janus Henderson is seeking a senior Azure Cloud Engineer in Greater London to lead hands-on cloud delivery within our Cloud COE. You will architect and operate Azure infrastructure, AKS clusters, and enterprise landing zones, while driving automation and governance across hybrid estates.

The role emphasizes strong scripting, CI/CD expertise, and collaboration with Security, Architecture, and Platform Engineering teams.