Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - Azure & Hybrid Automation

Thatcham Research; Cold Ash; Hybrid; GBP 59,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension (10%)

Holiday allowance 29 days

Life Assurance

Job summary

Thatcham Research is seeking an experienced Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to lead cloud platform engineering and modernisation efforts in a hybrid UK environment. You will spearhead complex Azure deployments, drive automated deployments with Terraform/Bicep and CI/CD tooling, and mentor a team of engineers across security, data and product groups.

You will shape cloud architecture and strategy, reduce technical debt, and improve resilience, performance and cost efficiency while collaborating

Qualifications

• Experience with Microsoft Azure including compute, storage, networking, identity and security.
• Experience leading complex Azure implementations and migrations.
• Hands-on with Terraform or Bicep and Infrastructure as Code.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical activity and priorities of the Cloud Platform Engineering function.
• Take the lead on complex Azure implementations from planning to deployment and transition to operations.
• Identify opportunities to modernise Azure environments, reduce debt and improve resilience, security, and cost efficiency.
• Drive infrastructure as code, automated deployment and CI/CD with Terraform, Bicep, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, PowerShell and Python.
• Collaborate across Azure infrastructure, networking, identity, security, governance and hybrid services.
• Establish engineering standards, deployment patterns, and good code review practices.
• Mentor engineers and contribute practical technical guidance.

Skills

Azure

Terraform

Bicep

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

PowerShell

Python

CI/CD

IaC

Tools

AWS

Job description

Thatcham Research is seeking an experienced Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to lead cloud platform engineering and modernisation efforts in a hybrid UK environment. You will spearhead complex Azure deployments, drive automated deployments with Terraform/Bicep and CI/CD tooling, and mentor a team of engineers across security, data and product groups.

You will shape cloud architecture and strategy, reduce technical debt, and improve resilience, performance and cost efficiency while collaborating