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Azure Cloud Engineer

Permanent

Up to £70,000 + benefits

Cheltenham - Hybrid working (2 days per week)

We're working with an established global organisation looking to add an experienced Azure Cloud Engineer to its technology team.

This is a hands-on engineering position for someone who enjoys getting under the bonnet of Azure environments: troubleshooting complex issues, improving existing infrastructure and making cloud services more secure, resilient and manageable.

We're particularly interested in people who started their careers in infrastructure, systems or technical support and have subsequently specialised in Microsoft Azure.

What you'll be doing

You'll work across an established Azure environment, taking responsibility for a mixture of operational engineering, technical improvement and cloud transformation.

Your work will include supporting and improving Azure infrastructure; troubleshooting complex cloud and connectivity issues; working across Azure networking, compute, storage and identity; strengthening security and governance; supporting migration and modernisation activity; improving monitoring, resilience, backup and recovery; and identifying opportunities to improve performance and cloud expenditure.

You'll also help the organisation continue developing its use of Infrastructure as Code and automation, using technologies such as Terraform, Bicep and PowerShell.

This isn't a role focused purely on building pipelines or deploying infrastructure through code. We're looking for somebody with strong underlying infrastructure and cloud engineering fundamentals who is equally comfortable diagnosing an existing environment when something isn't working.

What we're looking for

You'll ideally bring strong commercial experience supporting Microsoft Azure in an enterprise environment, backed by solid infrastructure engineering knowledge.

We'd be particularly interested in experience across:

• Azure infrastructure and platform services
• Azure networking - VNets, routing, connectivity, firewalls or similar
• Entra ID / identity and access
• Cloud security and governance
• Troubleshooting and root-cause analysis
• Azure Monitor or equivalent monitoring tooling
• Backup, recovery and resilience
• Cloud migrations and modernisation
• PowerShell and automation
• Terraform and/or Bicep
• Cloud cost optimisation / FinOps

What's more important is that you're a genuine hands-on engineer who can investigate unfamiliar technology, work logically through complex problems and take ownership through to resolution.

Azure certifications would be welcomed, as would experience working within an ITIL/service-management environment.

The opportunity

This is a good opportunity for an Azure engineer who wants more ownership than simply delivering predefined cloud projects.

You'll join an organisation investing in its cloud engineering capability and have the opportunity to influence how its Azure environment develops, while remaining close to the technology and continuing to engineer solutions yourself.

We are representing a leading organisation in the technology and manufacturing sector in a search for a dedicated DevOps professional. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work on mission-critical platforms within a vibrant and innovative environment focused on health and well-being solutions. The position combines remote working options with a base in Limerick, Ireland, providing flexibility and a chance to make a significant impact in a dynamic industry.

This role involves designing, developing, and maintaining robust infrastructure tools and services. The person will work on automation, optimisation of deployment processes, and integrating multiple services to ensure high system performance and reliability. Emphasis is placed on creating scalable, cloud-native solutions and actively participating in architecture discussions, code reviews, and infrastructure best practices. Typical responsibilities include implementing comprehensive monitoring and alerting systems, managing infrastructure through Infrastructure-as-Code methods, and supporting security and compliance standards.

The environment promotes a collaborative culture that values innovation, continuous improvement, and inclusion. Employees are encouraged to share ideas, influence technical strategy, and develop their skills within a supportive team committed to excellence and diversity.

To succeed in this role, candidates should demonstrate a solid foundation in software development and cloud technologies, with particular experience in infrastructure management and modern DevOps practices. The ideal candidate will be proactive, detail-oriented, and comfortable working in Linux-based environments, with scripting skills in languages like Bash or Python. Familiarity with CI/CD tools, messaging systems, and Infrastructure-as-Code is essential, as is experience working within regulated GxP environments.

Key skills and experience include:

• Proven experience in automating and optimising deployment pipelines
• Hands-on knowledge of cloud platforms, especially Microsoft Azure and relevant services like AKS
• Strong scripting and programming skills, particularly in Bash or Python
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi
• Understanding of modern CI/CD workflows and messaging systems like RabbitMQ

This is a great opportunity for a committed professional to advance their career within a forward-thinking organisation dedicated to innovation and improving lives. Interested candidates are encouraged to submit their applications for consideration.

• Build, implement, and refine CI/CD pipelines for consistent, dependable deployments across dev, test, and production
• Take ownership of the DevOps toolchain and environment lifecycle: source control, infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, release management, monitoring, and observability
• Provision and manage secure, resilient, scalable infrastructure underpinning MES platforms, keeping availability and performance high
• Manage MES platforms (Emerson Syncade experience preferred) — deployments, configuration, patching, upgrades, and day-to-day operational support
• Set and enforce development standards, branching strategy, code review practice, release governance, and change control suited to a regulated manufacturing setting
• Work alongside software engineering, QA, MES vendors, system integrators, and business stakeholders to deliver automated deployments and infrastructure-as-code
• Build automated testing and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines with QA, pushing shift-left testing and stronger release quality
• Stand up monitoring, logging, and alerting to stay ahead of platform health and performance issues
• Underpin CSV, audit readiness, disaster recovery, and business continuity with compliant documentation and deployment records
• Drive ongoing improvement across the delivery lifecycle, clearing deployment bottlenecks and tracking progress via metrics
• Serve as technical authority and escalation point for complex infrastructure, deployment, and operational issues

• Demonstrated experience as a DevOps Lead or Senior DevOps Engineer on complex enterprise programmes
• Hands-on development background with a strong grasp of the SDLC and modern DevOps practice
• Solid CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, automation, and scripting skills
• Experience managing enterprise application environments — release management, configuration management, infrastructure provisioning
• Strong background supporting MES platforms, ideally Emerson Syncade, across deployment, configuration, upgrades, and operational support
• Experience in regulated pharma/life sciences environments preferred, with working knowledge of GxP, CSV, and GAMP 5
• Familiarity with MES integrations into SAP, LIMS, and historian systems, plus containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills
• Hybrid working: 3-4 days on-site