Senior Cloud Platform Engineer: Azure & IaC Expert

Moneycorp; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Moneycorp in London is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to own day-to-day operations of Azure-based IaaS and Windows/Linux workloads, build landing zones, and drive automation across the cloud platform.

You will collaborate with DevOps and SRE teams to deliver secure, scalable, and cost-efficient solutions, mentor engineers, and help modernise from IaaS to cloud-native architectures while aligning with governance and FinOps practices.

Qualifications

• Azure platform operations across enterprise IaaS and PaaS.
• Strong Windows Server administration with practical Linux experience.
• Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform and/or Bicep.
• Configuration-as-Code with Ansible and/or DSC.
• CI/CD using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions; SBOM generation.
• Security and governance awareness in cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Operate and improve Azure platform services and IaaS workloads across Windows and Linux for stability, performance, and compliance.
• Implement hardening baselines and patch orchestration, and maintain desired state with DSC or Ansible.
• Enforce secure RBAC, Azure Policy, and identity patterns with AAD and PIM across subscriptions and management groups.
• Own observability runbooks and baselines, including alerting, metrics, logs, dashboards, backups, and DR drills to reduce MTTR.
• Administer Windows Server (AD, GPO, IIS) and provide Linux support including systemd, patching, and log management.
• Contribute to landing zones and reusable platform modules using Bicep and Terraform.
• Deliver CI/CD pipeline templates in Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions with policy gates, secrets scanning, and SBOM generation.
• Enable the Internal Developer Platform to support IaC/CaC-based self-service environment provisioning.
• Embed secure-by-default patterns, integrate Defender and Conditional Access, and shift-left security for images and IaC in pipelines.
• Mentor and coach platform engineers through pairing, PR reviews, runbook creation, and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Azure

Windows Server

Linux Admin

Terraform

Bicep

Ansible

DSC

PowerShell

Bash

DevOps Tools

CI/CD

SRE Concepts

FinOps

Zero Trust

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Azure certifications (AZ-104/AZ-305/AZ-500)

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

Ansible

DSC

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Job description

Moneycorp in London is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to own day-to-day operations of Azure-based IaaS and Windows/Linux workloads, build landing zones, and drive automation across the cloud platform.

You will collaborate with DevOps and SRE teams to deliver secure, scalable, and cost-efficient solutions, mentor engineers, and help modernise from IaaS to cloud-native architectures while aligning with governance and FinOps practices.