Senior Cloud Engineer
Edinburgh or London (Hybrid) | £60,000-£80,000
Drop Table are looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer to join the team.
We've been building a modern Azure envrionments for clients withn the financial services sector, as the programmes continues to scale, we are looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer to join the team and contribute to the ongoing evolution of the platform.
This is a hands-on engineering role within a live, enterprise-scale environment. You will work alongside experienced platform and security engineers to build and refine core Azure capabilities, with a strong emphasis on automation, resilience, and secure-by-design principles.
This is not a greenfield concept piece. The platform is live, in use, and central to how the organisation delivers technology.
Responsibilities- Design and implement robust Azure platform components aligned to enterprise standards
- Enhance CI/CD capabilities to support reliable, repeatable, low-risk deployments
- Embed automation across build, release, and operational workflows
- Contribute to platform governance, standards, and engineering best practices
- Ensure solutions meet expectations for security, resilience, performance, and cost control
- Support the continued modernisation of architecture, tooling, and engineering processes
- Microsoft Azure (including Container Apps, Front Door, API Management)
- Terraform (Infrastructure as Code)
- Azure DevOps (pipelines and release engineering)
- PowerShell
- Proven experience as a hands-on Azure / platform / DevOps engineer
- Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture and CI/CD practices
- Experience working within regulated or complex enterprise environments
- Able to deliver high-quality, supportable solutions without unnecessary complexity
- Comfortable contributing to both technical direction and delivery
Desirable:
- Exposure to C#, SQL Server, Databricks, Azure B2C, or Power Platform
- FTE Permanent role (unfortunately no sponsorship available)
- Hybrid working, with presence in Edinburgh or London
- Role embedded within a strategically important transformation programme
This is suited to engineers who want to work on real platforms at scale, where the work has direct impact and the standards are high.