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