Azure Cloud Engineer (Terraform & DevOps)

We're looking for an experienced Azure Cloud Engineer with deep Terraform and DevOps expertise to join our growing Cloud Operations team at a Specialist level. You'll take hands-on ownership of infrastructure engineering - designing, automating and maintaining Azure infrastructure at scale - while acting as a senior technical point of contact for the wider service team. This role suits someone who lives and breathes infrastructure-as-code, treats automation as the default way of working, and wants to deliver resilient, secure and cost-efficient cloud platforms for our customers.

Responsibilities

Design, build and maintain Azure infrastructure using Terraform as the primary IaC tool, working to modular, reusable and version-controlled patterns; Develop and own CI/CD pipelines across Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions for both infrastructure and application deployments; Automate provisioning, configuration and lifecycle management across multiple client environments and subscriptions; Implement and enforce security, governance and compliance baselines, covering Azure Policy, RBAC, Key Vault, networking and landing zones; Monitor, troubleshoot and optimise the performance, reliability and cost of Azure workloads; Act as the senior technical escalation point for Azure, Terraform and DevOps practices; Coordinate workload and prioritisation across the team; Conduct code and architecture reviews; Work closely with Solution Architects and the Head of Cloud Operations on solution design, migrations and customer onboarding; Take part in an on-call / out-of-hours rota

Requirements

Experienced Azure Cloud Engineer with deep Terraform and DevOps expertise; Proven, in-depth experience engineering and operating Microsoft Azure environments in production; Extensive Terraform experience - writing, structuring and maintaining modules, state management, workspaces and remote backends; Strong DevOps background, including CI/CD pipeline design, Git-based workflows and release automation; Demonstrable experience leading or mentoring engineers, setting technical direction and coordinating team delivery; Solid scripting ability in PowerShell, Bash or Python; Sound understanding of Azure networking, identity (Entra ID), security and governance; Experience with monitoring and observability tooling such as Azure Monitor and Log Analytics; Excellent troubleshooting skills and a methodical, root-cause approach to problems

Nice to have

Azure certifications (such as AZ-104, AZ-305 or AZ-400) or a HashiCorp Terraform Associate qualification; Experience with containers and orchestration (AKS, Docker, Kubernetes); Exposure to multi-tenant or MSP environments and client-facing delivery; Familiarity with configuration management and policy-as-code tooling

Benefits

Skilled, collaborative Cloud Operations team; Varied, high-impact projects; Genuine investment in your growth through funded certifications and training; Flexible, fully remote working from anywhere in the UK; Culture that values automation, engineering excellence and continuous improvement