Cloud Engineer in Leeds

Cloud Engineer in Leeds

Leeds Full-Time 63000 - 77000 £ / year (est.) Home office (partial)
Peaple Talent

At a Glance

  • Tasks: Design and manage Azure environments, optimise services, and lead cloud migration projects.
  • Company: Rapidly growing energy company focused on a low carbon future.
  • Benefits: Performance bonus, private medical, and 25 days holiday.
  • Other info: Opportunity to work on innovative projects and enhance your skills in a dynamic environment.
  • Why this job: Join a team making a real impact in the energy transition with cutting-edge cloud technology.
  • Qualifications: Strong infrastructure engineering background and experience with Azure environments.

The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.

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 (Ia C) tools such as Terraform, Bicep, or ARM, while ensuring performance, reliability, cost control, and compliance.
  • Support Dev Ops and automation initiatives by helping teams adopt CI/CD pipelines, Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub 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, Power Shell, or Python.
  • Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and Dev Ops tools such as Azure Dev Ops or Git Hub, with strong Windows Server experience and some Linux exposure desirable.

The Package

  • Performance bonus
  • Private Medical
  • 25 days holiday
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Cloud Engineer in Leeds employer: Peaple Talent

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Peaple Talent

Contact Details:

Peaple Talent Recruitment Team

We think you need these skills to ace Cloud Engineer in Leeds

Microsoft Azure
Cloud Governance
Landing Zone Architecture
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Terraform
Bicep
ARM Templates