Cloud Engineer

• Act as a senior, hands-on engineer in designing, building, and operating systems within the team's scope.
• Design and manage cloud infrastructure in Microsoft Azure, with a strong focus on Landing Zone architecture and governance.
• Build, deploy, and operate containerised applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform to enable consistent, repeatable deployments.
• Implement and support CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub, and manage source code through Git.
• Design and maintain scalable search and analytics solutions using Elasticsearch.
• Develop automation scripts using Bash or PowerShell to streamline operational tasks.
• Contribute to system tooling and automation using a programming language such as Python or Golang.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability using tools such as Prometheus or New Relic.
• Ensure systems meet standards for reliability, performance, security, compliance, and recoverability.
• Take ownership of systems across their lifecycle (build and run), including incident response and root cause analysis.
• Design and maintain reusable infrastructure patterns and self-service modules for development teams.
• Plan and implement system changes using structured change control and deployment practices.
• Maintain and validate backup, recovery, and resilience mechanisms.
• Identify risks, bottlenecks, and technical debt, and drive continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with Software Engineers, QA Engineers, and Platform Engineers to align systems with business and application needs.
• Actively adopt and champion AI-assisted engineering tools (e.g. Claude Code, Cowork) to accelerate delivery and improve quality — reducing instability, errors, and lead times — while helping the wider team upskill.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote best practices in systems engineering and operations.

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