Senior Cloud Engineer - Microsoft Azure

As a Senior Cloud Engineer specializing in Microsoft Azure at UBDS, you will be a critical player in empowering our clients through innovative cloud solutions. You will leverage your expertise to build, manage, and optimize cloud infrastructure while enabling businesses to achieve their strategic goals. In this role, you will be responsible for deploying new services, troubleshooting issues, and ensuring high-performance and scalable solutions within Azure.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage highly available and secure cloud infrastructure solutions on Microsoft Azure.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and develop scalable cloud solutions that meet business needs.
• Support migration of existing applications and infrastructure to Azure, ensuring minimal disruption to business operations.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using tools such as ARM templates, Terraform, or Bicep.
• Monitor and optimize cloud services performance, security, and cost effectiveness.
• Provide technical support and expertise to clients, solving complex problems swiftly and effectively.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest Azure features and services, and proactively integrate relevant enhancements into client architectures.
• Document architecture solutions, best practices, and standards for cloud infrastructure.

About You

• Proven experience in cloud engineering or cloud architecture, with a focus on Microsoft Azure.
• Strong knowledge of Azure services, including compute, storage, networking, and security.
• Experience in managing cloud environment resilience and disaster recovery strategies.
• Hands-on experience implementing and managing security best practices in Azure.
• Familiarity with DevOps principles, CI/CD pipelines, and related tools such as Azure DevOps.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex issues in cloud environments.
• Excellent communication skills, capable of conveying technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• A desire to stay current with emerging cloud technologies and innovations.
• Relevant certifications such as Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate are a plus.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure and cloud engineering principles.
• In-depth knowledge of Azure services including compute, storage, networking, and security.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like ARM templates, Terraform, or Bicep.
• Outstanding communication and problem-solving skills.

Benefits

People are the most important aspect of our business, so adding the right people to the team and helping them grow is critical. This is why we have invested in a people-focused team to look after the entire employee experience. With an impressive portfolio of customers in both the public and private sectors, we have a variety of exciting projects to be involved in. As a technology agnostic organisation, you will gain exposure to the world’s leading and latest technology.

• Training - All team members are offered a number of options in terms of personal development, whether it is technical led, business acumen or methodologies. We want you to grow with us and to help us achieve more.
• Private medical cover for you and your spouse/partner, offered via Vitality.
• Discretionary bonus based on a blend of personal and company performance.
• Holiday - You will receive 25 Days holiday, plus 1 day for Birthday and 1 day for your work anniversary in addition to UK bank holidays.
• Electric Vehicle leasing with salary sacrifice.
• Contributed Pension Scheme.
• Death in service cover.
• Hybrid Working - UBDS offers a flexible working environment to help enable you to operate at your maximum regardless of your location. With offices in London & Manchester we offer a culture that is focused on outcomes and giving you a work life balance but at the same time creating and driving a culture of inclusivity and togetherness.

About UBDS

UBDS was born out of a vision to build lasting relationships by delivering digital transformation solutions with unrivalled speed and efficiency. We have taken complex organisations to the frontier of innovation, transforming enterprise and public sector to be faster, leaner and more competitive. Organisations turn to us for deep knowledge, specialist skills, years of on-the-job experience and our can-do and get-it-done culture. We exist to deliver significant, measurable and sustainable digital transformation, and we achieve this by delivering value to our customers in the following ways:

• Accelerating change.
• Ensuring frictionless high performance.
• Mitigating risk and ensuring security.

From advisory, to design and execution, we implement the technology that aligns with our clients’ goals - to help them innovate and thrive. We have four key values that guide the way we work together, engage with our customers, make decisions, and ultimately succeed:

• Our reputation is everything.
• We are passionate about technology and innovation.
• We deliver value and make an impact.
• We keep it simple and make it happen.

Interested in joining our innovative team? Get in touch. To find out more about this role, one of our other vacancies or to just talk about UBDS and where you might fit into one of our free thinking and ever-advancing teams, please head to this link or send your CV to Recruitment@UBDS.com.

Equal Opportunities

We are an equal opportunities employer and do not discriminate on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age.