Senior Cloud Engineer - Azure DevOps

At UBDS Group, we simplify complexity and deliver innovative, secure solutions  we continue to grow our cloud and engineering capabilities, we're looking for an experienced Senior Azure Dev Ops Engineer to design, build and improve secure, scalable cloud platforms and delivery pipelines for our clients.

This is a hands-on engineering role with a strong focus on Microsoft Azure, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, automation and modern Dev Ops practices.

You'll work across complex client environments, collaborating with Cloud Engineers, Architects, Security specialists and delivery teams to automate infrastructure, improve engineering practices and enable teams to deploy services quickly, consistently and securely.

We're looking for someone with strong Azure and Dev Ops experience who can take ownership of technical challenges, make pragmatic engineering decisions and help establish high-quality engineering practices across delivery teams.

• Design, build and maintain secure and scalable Azure cloud environments.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using technologies such as Terraform and Bicep.
• Design, implement and optimise CI/CD pipelines using Azure Dev Ops.
• Automate the provisioning, configuration and deployment of cloud infrastructure and services.
• Build reusable infrastructure modules, deployment patterns and engineering components.
• Implement automated testing, quality controls and security checks within deployment pipelines.
• Apply Dev Sec Ops  principles, embedding security throughout the development and deployment lifecycle.
• Work with Architects and engineering teams to translate solution designs into deployable cloud platforms and services.
• Support the implementation of Azure networking, identity, security, compute, storage and platform services.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting and observability across cloud environments.
• Troubleshoot complex platform, deployment and infrastructure issues.
• Improve reliability, scalability and operational performance through automation and engineering best practice.
• Support containerised workloads and modern application platforms where appropriate.
• Work within appropriate governance, security and compliance requirements, particularly within regulated and secure environments.
• Contribute to technical documentation, runbooks, design decisions and knowledge sharing.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to engineers within delivery teams.
• Identify opportunities to improve automation, engineering standards and reusable capability across UBDS Group.

• Significant hands-on experience delivering solutions within Microsoft Azure.
• Strong experience with Azure Dev Ops, including CI/CD pipelines, repositories and associated tooling.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform and/or Bicep.
• Experience designing and implementing automated cloud deployment pipelines.
• Strong understanding of Azure services, including networking, identity, compute, storage and security.
• Experience with Git and modern source-control practices.
• Strong understanding of Dev Ops and Dev Sec Ops  principles and practices.
• Experience with scripting and automation using technologies such as Power Shell, Bash or Python.
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging and operational tooling within Azure environments.
• Understanding of cloud security principles, identity and access management, RBAC, secrets management and secure configuration.
• Experience troubleshooting complex infrastructure and deployment issues.
• Strong understanding of resilient, scalable and highly available cloud architecture.
• Experience working within Agile engineering and multidisciplinary delivery teams.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly and work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Microsoft Azure certifications.
• Hashi Corp Terraform certification or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Azure Landing Zones and enterprise-scale Azure environments.
• Experience with Git Ops approaches and tooling.
• Experience with policy-as-code and automated governance.
• Experience with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights or equivalent observability tooling.
• Experience implementing automated security scanning within CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience working with Microsoft Entra .
• Experience with configuration management and automation tooling.
• Experience…