The role combines deep technical expertise in cloud engineering, server and policy configuration, virtualisation and infrastructure-as-code with strong operating discipline across FinOps, software asset management, backup / disaster recovery and supplier relationships. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable designing landing zones, hardening Windows and Linux servers, authoring Terraform / Bicep modules, optimising cloud spend and managing vendors — while automating repetitive work wherever possible.
Responsibilities
- Act as the lead cloud engineer for the estate — architect, deploy and manage cloud infrastructure across Azure (primary), AWS and / or GCP, covering compute, storage,
- Design and manage cloud networking — virtual networks, subnets, load balancers, VPN / ExpressRoute, DNS, and firewall / NSG rules.networking and identity integration.
- Define landing zones, resource governance, tagging, RBAC and Azure Policy / guardrails for secure and consistent provisioning.
- Engineer scalability, resilience and high availability — auto-scaling, redundancy and multi-region / availability-zone design.
- Operate cloud-native services (containers, serverless, PaaS data services) in line with reference architectures and well-architected principles.
Qualifications
- Minimum 8–10 years of hands‑on IT infrastructure experience across servers, virtualisation and cloud in an enterprise environment.
- Proven, deep expertise in Azure (primary) with working expertise in at least one of AWS or GCP; experience operating multi‑cloud estates at scale.
- Strong track record of landing‑zone design, cloud networking and governance (RBAC, tagging, Azure Policy / Service Control Policies).
- Hands‑on experience configuring server, group and security policies and creating and governing virtual machines at scale across VMware / Hyper‑V and cloud.
- Demonstrable experience managing cloud spend / FinOps — rightsizing, commitments, idle‑resource elimination and chargeback / showback reporting.
- Experience owning backup, DR and business‑continuity for mixed on‑prem and cloud workloads with defined RPO / RTO.
- Experience managing infrastructure suppliers and cloud partners within ITIL‑aligned operations.