Cloud Engineer

Azure Cloud Engineer

Location: Bristol (City Centre) - Hybrid Working

Salary: £70k + bonus + benefits

We’re working with a global business in Bristol looking to hire an Azure Cloud Engineer to help manage and evolve their Azure cloud platform.

You’ll join a small cloud and infrastructure team, where you’ll have real ownership of the Azure environment and the opportunity to make a meaningful impact across the platform. The role offers strong autonomy and the chance to influence how the cloud estate develops as the business continues to modernise its infrastructure.

Key responsibilities

• Own and manage the organisation’s Azure cloud environment, ensuring it remains secure, reliable and well-optimised
• Lead improvements to the cloud platform, helping modernise legacy workloads and reduce reliance on VM-based infrastructure
• Design and implement automation and infrastructure-as-code to improve consistency and reduce manual deployments
• Work with software engineers to improve deployment processes and hosting environments for cloud-based applications
• Strengthen monitoring, alerting and operational visibility across the Azure environment
• Improve platform resilience, backup and disaster recovery capabilities
• Identify opportunities to optimise Azure usage and reduce cloud costs
• Contribute to the ongoing cloud roadmap and architecture decisions

Skills & experience

• Strong hands-on experience working with Microsoft Azure infrastructure and platform services
• Experience managing Azure networking, including VNets, firewalls, private endpoints and routing
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep or similar)
• Experience supporting CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments in Azure DevOps or similar tooling
• Experience working with monitoring, logging and observability tools such as Azure Monitor, Log Analytics or Application Insights
• Strong troubleshooting skills across cloud infrastructure

Nice to have

• Experience with container platforms (AKS or Docker)
• Exposure to Azure security tooling or governance frameworks
• Azure certifications

Other details & benefits

• Bristol city centre office
• Hybrid working - Ideally 2 days per week onsite, however further flexibility can be discussed
• Annual discretionary bonus
• 25 days holiday (increasing with service) + birthday leave
• Employer pension contribution
• Learning and development support

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If you’re an Azure engineer looking for a role where you can take ownership of a cloud platform and make a real impact, apply today!