Cloud Engineer

Arthur Recruitment; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Arthur Recruitment is partnering with a global organisation to recruit a Site Reliability Engineer in London. You will help design, build and evolve enterprise-scale Azure platforms supporting critical services across a global environment.

This is not a traditional operations role, but a platform engineering focus. You will work on Azure infrastructure, networking, API Management, automation, and modern cloud platforms, driving automation and enabling AI-driven services.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in a senior SRE, Platform Engineer, Cloud Engineer or Azure Infrastructure role.
• Strong Azure architecture and engineering expertise.
• Hands-on Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience.
• Experience building and automating cloud platforms at scale.
• Strong understanding of networking, connectivity and cloud security.
• Experience with observability, monitoring and incident management.
• Knowledge of SRE principles including SLIs, SLOs and service reliability.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to engage technical and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Designing and supporting highly available, scalable Azure platforms.
• Driving platform reliability, resilience and operational excellence.
• Building Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform.
• Developing and improving Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines.
• Implementing monitoring, observability and proactive alerting capabilities.
• Supporting Azure networking, security and API Management services.
• Designing disaster recovery, failover and business continuity solutions.
• Reducing operational toil through automation and self-healing capabilities.
• Working closely with Architecture, Security and Engineering teams to define platform standards and best practices.

Skills

Azure architecture

Automation

Platform engineering

SRE principles

Observability

Communication with stakeholders

Tools

Terraform

PowerShell

Python

Bash

AKS

Azure DevOps

Azure Security & Identity

Job description

London | Hybrid

We're partnering with a global organisation investing heavily in cloud transformation, platform engineering and next-generation technology capabilities.

As part of a growing Cloud & Infrastructure team, we're looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to help design, build and evolve enterprise-scale Azure platforms that support critical business services across a global environment.

This is not a traditional operations-focused SRE role. We're particularly interested in candidates with strong experience across Azure infrastructure, networking, API Management, automation and platform engineering. The ideal candidate will enjoy building modern cloud platforms, driving automation and enabling emerging technologies, including AI-driven services.

What You'll Be Doing

• Designing and supporting highly available, scalable Azure platforms
• Driving platform reliability, resilience and operational excellence
• Building Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform
• Developing and improving Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines
• Implementing monitoring, observability and proactive alerting capabilities
• Supporting Azure networking, security and API Management services
• Designing disaster recovery, failover and business continuity solutions
• Reducing operational toil through automation and self-healing capabilities
• Working closely with Architecture, Security and Engineering teams to define platform standards and best practices

Key Technologies

• Terraform
• Azure Security & Identity
• AKS
• PowerShell, Python or Bash

What We're Looking For

• Significant experience in a senior SRE, Platform Engineer, Cloud Engineer or Azure Infrastructure role
• Strong Azure architecture and engineering expertise
• Hands-on Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience
• Experience building and automating cloud platforms at scale
• Strong understanding of networking, connectivity and cloud security
• Experience with observability, monitoring and incident management
• Knowledge of SRE principles including SLIs, SLOs and service reliability
• Strong communication skills and the ability to engage technical and business stakeholders
• Snowflake
• Zero Trust Architecture

Why Join?

This is an opportunity to influence the future direction of a growing Azure estate, working on modern cloud platforms, large-scale automation initiatives and emerging AI technologies. You'll join a collaborative team where engineering quality, innovation and continuous improvement are genuinely valued.

Salary Six Figures + benefits | Hybrid London