Azure Cloud Engineer

Overview

Fast-growing travel business in central Bristol with international offices are looking for an Azure Cloud Engineer to help them reach new heights with their multi-award winning service. This BCorp certified market-leader are looking for someone to join their team to support internal employees across the group and be a part of key infrastructure projects as they continue to grow  a business they have a genuine focus on responsible tourism, helping customers to travel as sustainably as possible and supporting international renewable projects to drive down carbon.

• Hands‑on experience designing, deploying, and managing Azure‑only cloud environments across networking, compute, storage, identity, and PaaS services.
• Strong knowledge of Azure networking, including Azure Firewall, WAF, VNets, NSGs, Gateways, Routing, and Private Endpoints.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code, with Terraform as the primary tool and Bicep as an Azure‑native IaC language.
• Ideally, you will have the ability to write and use KQL for dashboards, alerts, investigations, and insights in Log Analytics, Azure Monitor, and Application Insights.
• Experience administering and optimizing Windows Server workloads on Azure Virtual Machines, including patching, configuration, and performance tuning.
• Practical experience supporting and tuning Azure Virtual Desktop environments.
• Experience migrating SQL Server workloads to Azure SQL Managed Instance and supporting Azure SQL operational tasks.
• Experience modernizing applications using Azure App Services or container based platforms.
• Proficiency working with Azure Dev Ops pipelines, automated deployments and integration with IaC workflows.
• Understanding of Azure governance and security controls, including Azure Policy, RBAC, Defender for Cloud, and Sentinel analytics.
• Ability to produce clear and maintainable technical documentation, runbooks, and architecture diagrams.

As Azure Cloud Engineer, your core duties will be to design, implement, optimize, and support our Azure cloud infrastructure so that it remains secure, reliable, scalable, and cost effective. You will lead the expansion of their cloud estate, modernize legacy VM‑based workloads, strengthen monitoring and automation, and uplift cloud engineering practices across the organization. This role focuses on Azure platform engineering and does not have day-to-day responsibility for end-user device management.

You will manage core Azure networking components and firewalls and optimise Azure Virtual Machines including configuration, patching, security hardening and performance tuning. There are plenty of cloud projects where they will look to you to recommend appropriate platform choices and support modernisation initiatives that reduce technical debt and uplift cloud maturity.

Alongside a competitive salary (up to £70K) there’s plenty of great benefits with this one. You’ll be part of a highly collaborative, ambitious and progressive team for a true market-leader. There’s an annual discretionary bonus (possibility of up to 125% of your monthly salary), 26 days holiday + bank holidays, enhanced parental leave, pension, volunteering leave, discounts on products, Perkbox, socials and more.

There’s also dedicated learning and development time and you’ll genuinely feel that you work is supported with a strong collective sense of values and purpose.

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