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Senior Cloud Engineer
- Job ID
- Job ID 77877
- Team
- Team Tech
- Location
- Location Leicester
- Contract Type
- Contract Type Perm
- Job Schedule
- Job Schedule Full time
- Salary
- Salary £63,000 - £70,200
- Posting Date
- Posting Date 26/10/2026
- Apply Before
- Apply Before 09/11/2026
Summary
The Role
As a Cloud Engineer or Senior Cloud Engineer, you will be a vital contributor to the creation and enhancement of our technology landscape, ensuring our systems are scalable, reliable, and secure. You will collaborate closely with architects and key stakeholders to design and deploy robust platforms across both Microsoft Azure and GCP. Whether you are joining us at an engineer or senior level, you will play a transformative role in shaping our infrastructure through automation and modern engineering standards.
What You’ll Take On:
In this role, your day-to-day focus will be on driving technical excellence and platform stability through the following activities:
- Developing IaC Solutions: Leading the creation and maintenance of Infrastructure-as-Code solutions and centralised modules using Terraform.
- Automating Provisioning: Streamlining the management of platform resources and ensuring consistent deployment of PaaS-based tools like serverless functions, databases, and containers.
- Infrastructure Governance: Utilising Azure Policy and internal standards to maintain high levels of configuration integrity and security.
- Monitoring & Reliability: Implementing proactive alerting and monitoring to resolve issues early, while participating in incident response and disaster recovery.
- Cross-Team Collaboration: Working with wider technology teams to ensure seamless integration across our IT infrastructure.
- Senior Leadership (for Senior level): Coaching junior team members through code reviews, leading technical workshops, and translating complex business needs into high-level architectural designs.
What You’ll Bring:
We are looking for a proactive engineer who combines deep technical knowledge with the ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders. To succeed in this role, you should offer:
- Proven experience with Azure Foundations (governance and scaffolding) and a working knowledge of GCP.
- A strong understanding of networking architecture (Express Route, Virtual Networks, Firewalls) and identity management via EntraID and RBAC.
- Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, Ansible, and PowerShell.
- Familiarity with Azure SQL, AKS, and observability tools like Log Analytics and App Insights.
- The confidence to scope and plan complex projects, translating requirements into pragmatic solutions.
- Act as a natural mentor, coaching junior team members through code reviews and technical guidance to foster professional growth.
- Lead technical workshops, develop engineering standards, and endorse cloud best practices across the organisation.
- Take the lead in translating complex business requirements into high-level architectural designs, ensuring long-term scalability and alignment with the broader IT strategy.
- Serve as a crucial point of escalation and take a lead role in coordinating the resolution of major technical issues and incidents.
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Benefits
- 25% off most NEXT, MADE*, Lipsy*, Gap* and Victoria's Secret* products (*when purchased through NEXT)
- Company performance based bonus
- Sharesave scheme
- On-site Nursery available; OFSTED outstanding in all areas
- 10% off most partner brands & up to 15% off Branded Beauty
- Early VIP access to sale stock
- Access to fantastic discounts at our Staff Shops
- Restaurants with great food at amazing prices
- Access a digital GP and other free health and wellbeing services
- Free on-site parking
- Financial Wellbeing - Save, track and enhance your financial wellbeing
- Apprenticeship - Grow and develop on the job whilst gaining a qualification
- Direct to Work - Discount online and instore, collect your items the next day for free from your place of work or local store
- Support Networks - Access to Network Groups to empower and celebrate each other
- Wellhub - Discounted flexible monthly gym memberships, with apps, PT sessions and more
Conditions apply to all benefits. These benefits are discretionary and subject to change.
We aim to support all candidates during the application process and are happy to provide workplace adjustments when necessary. Should you need support with your application due to a disability or long-term condition, feel free to get in touch with us by email [email protected] (please include 'Workplace Adjustments' in the subject line), or call us on 0116 284 2486 and leave a voicemail.
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