Azure Cloud Engineer

Role: Azure Cloud Engineer

Location: Leeds (hybrid)

Salary: up to £69,500 DOE

Peaple Talent have partnered with a rapidly growing energy company at the heart of the transition to a low carbon future. They are looking for an Azure Cloud Engineer to join the team and lead the design, setup, and day-to-day management of the organisation’s Microsoft Azure environment, with a focus on cloud governance, landing zone architecture, and operational best practice.

The Role:

• Design, implement, and manage the organisation’s Microsoft Azure environment, including landing zones, governance, security, networking, and monitoring standards.
• Manage and optimise Azure services using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Bicep, or ARM, while ensuring performance, reliability, cost control, and compliance.
• Support DevOps and automation initiatives by helping teams adopt CI/CD pipelines, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, and infrastructure automation best practices.
• Lead cloud migration projects, including moving acquired Azure environments and on-prem VMware workloads into Azure with minimal disruption.
• Provide technical leadership and operational support by resolving complex issues, improving processes through automation, maintaining documentation, and delivering infrastructure projects with stakeholders.

The Candidate:

• Strong infrastructure engineering background with a cloud-first mindset and experience designing and managing Azure environments at scale.
• Proven experience delivering cloud migration and transformation projects, including Azure tenant migrations and VMware-to-Azure migrations.
• Hands-on expertise with Azure governance, landing zones, networking, identity, security, and hybrid connectivity.
• Experience using Infrastructure as Code and automation tools such as Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, PowerShell, or Python.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tools such as Azure DevOps or GitHub, with strong Windows Server experience and some Linux exposure desirable.

The Package:

Base salary: up to £69,500

• Performance bonus
• Hybrid working
• Private Medical
• 25 days holiday

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