Senior Cloud Engineer (Azure)

Akkodis; Birmingham; Remote; GBP 75,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Akkodis is seeking an experienced Senior Cloud Engineer (Azure) to join their team, focusing on cloud infrastructure and automation within a leading global brand. This role, primarily remote with some travel required, offers an attractive salary and extensive benefits while contributing to innovative cloud solutions and practices in the enterprise environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience in a large enterprise organization as a Senior or Lead Cloud Engineer.
• Expert knowledge and experience of Azure and other Cloud software products.
• Strong skills in communication with technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Develop automation and orchestration solutions for CI/CD pipeline.
• Design and implement cloud architectures meeting business needs.
• Collaborate with IT teams for alignment on cloud initiatives.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Automation

Cloud Architecture

Azure

Education

Professional certifications in Azure

Job description

Senior Cloud Engineer (Azure)

£75,000 - £85,000 + bonus + extensive benefits

Full Time / Permanent

Remote with regular travel Birmingham head office and other European offices

The Role

I am looking for an experienced Senior Cloud Engineer to join a large global brand head quartered in the West Midlands.

This role can be primarily remote based however would involve with monthly travel Birmingham head office and other offices throughout Europe.

As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will be responsible for setting up and maintaining tools, testing environments, and infrastructure. This role involves building and deploying code for the automation of servers and services into production environments. The Senior Cloud Engineer will play a crucial role in developing cloud templates, ensuring industry-standard cloud performance and compliance, and removing manual build processes for infrastructure services.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop automation and orchestration solutions, such as maintaining CI / CD pipeline and infrastructure as code templates.
• Establish and evolve a set of modern architecture principles for the Cloud environment.
• Design and implement cloud architectures that meet business needs and objectives.
• Develop a baseline monitoring and tooling concept for cloud to address the need for compliance infrastructure reporting within agile deliveries as part of the observability strategy.
• Implement and mature a cloud forecasting and capacity management solution for the enterprise.
• Collaborate with other IT teams and stakeholders to ensure alignment and support for cloud initiatives.
• Develop Cloud infrastructure templates and support migrations to ensure a standardised Cloud environment across the organisation.
• Participate in platform modernisation across a broad and diverse set of operating companies and technologies.
• Document designs as part of sprints, easing up transition into operations.

Skills and Experience

• Extensive hands-on experience of working as a Senior or Lead Cloud Engineer in a large enterprise organisation.
• Expert level knowledge and experience of Azure plus other Cloud software products, platforms and vendors.
• Professional certifications in Azure are preferred but not essential.
• Must have strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to communicate complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.

Please apply via this advert or contact [e-mail] for more information

Modis International Ltd acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers in the UK. Modis Europe Ltd provide a variety of international solutions that connect clients to the best talent in the world. For all positions based in Switzerland, Modis Europe Ltd works with its licensed Swiss partner Accurity GmbH to ensure that candidate applications are handled in accordance with Swiss law.

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