Azure Cloud Engineer
Rugby - Hybrid
Up to £70,000 per annum
We are working with a market leading and nationwide group that is actively recruiting for an Azure Cloud Engineer to join on a permanent basis. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a business that is known for developing people and promoting from within.
This is a vital role for the business, with the key purpose of the role being to drive forward the company’s work or migrating their remaining on prem infrastructure into a fully Azure based cloud environment. You will act as a subject matter expert and technical lead regarding Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform, DevOps and App modernisation. They are keen to find a strong hands on engineer who is also interested in contributing designs for new Azure services.
This is a hybrid position based in Rugby, initially a couple of days per week on-site which is then likely to reduce to 2-3 days per month.
Responsibilities:
- Promote Azure DevOps to the teams through mentoring teams, training sessions and workshops
- Develop a long-term strategy for cloud and IaC technologies across the business
- Lead the design and deployment of IaaS and PaaS
- Build CI/CD pipelines with Terraform in Azure
- Create Terraform templates and modules
- Work to Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)
- Lead the migration of the services from VMware into Azure
- Use PaaS and Automate as much as possible
- Develop stakeholder relationships, provide insight and foster engagement
Key skills required:
- Strong professional experience in Azure Cloud Engineering, DevOps & Platform Engineering
- Strong CI/CD pipelines & Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience with Terraform
- Strong Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to Platform as a Service (PaaS) experience of app modernisation
- Migrating from on-prem/hybrid to fully Azure cloud – re-hosted & re-platform
- Experienced with Windows Server, SQL Server and VMware
- Scripting & automation experience - PowerShell
- Mentor and knowledge transfer to colleagues
- Strong stakeholder management skills
- Azure certification
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