Senior Cloud Engineer

📍 Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire (Hybrid)

🕒 Employment Type: Permanent

💼 Status: Actively Hiring

💡 Package up to £75,000

WRK digital are delighted to be partnered exclusively with a highly respected, UK‐based organisation, shortlisting for a Senior Cloud Engineer on a permanent basis.

We are looking for an accomplished and innovative Senior Cloud Engineer to join a collaborative Cloud Platform team, helping to manage, develop, and optimise a large Azure cloud environment. You will play a key role in delivering secure, scalable and resilient infrastructure that underpins the organisation’s cloud strategy.

The ideal candidate will bring expertise across Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform (IaC), CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar), and cloud automation. You will provide technical leadership, support operational excellence, mentor junior engineers, and drive continuous service improvements. A proactive mindset, strong troubleshooting capability, and the ability to draw insights from performance data will be essential.

This opportunity suits someone who thrives in a modern cloud environment, enjoys solving complex engineering challenges, and values cross‐team collaboration.

Core Responsibilities include:

• Manage and optimise Azure cloud infrastructure, ensuring stability, performance, and reliability
• Provide L2/L3 support for incidents, troubleshooting cloud‐related issues
• Lead Kubernetes cluster operations and support containerised workloads
• Maintain and enhance Terraform Infrastructure as Code modules
• Participate in CI/CD automation using GitHub Actions or similar tooling
• Analyse observability data to produce insights and recommendations
• Ensure effective monitoring using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, AppDynamics or Splunk
• Drive automation across cloud operations following SRE and DevOps principles
• Support junior engineers through mentoring and knowledge sharing
• Collaborate with cross‐functional teams to implement platform improvements
• Maintain clear documentation for procedures, configuration and operational readiness

Minimum Requirements:

• 24/7 on‐call L2/L3 support experience
• Experience with a major cloud platform (Azure preferred)
• Familiarity with monitoring tools for troubleshooting and insight gathering
• Hands‐on experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar)
• Strong experience with Terraform or similar IaC tooling

If you’d like to discuss this role further or explore next steps, please get in contact with Charlie at WRK digital, comment below, or apply via the job post in the comments.