Cloud/DevOps Engineer
| Posting date: | 25 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £52,000.0 to £55,000.0 per year |
| Additional salary information: | To £55,000 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 August 2025 |
| Location: | Manchester, Greater Manchester, M1 4BT |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | Hays Specialist Recruitment |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 4710953_1753458604 |
Summary
Prestigious opportunity with one of the UK's leading Universities for an experienced Cloud Engineer to join our success story! This is a hybrid role based on campus 2 days a week.
As our Senior Cloud Engineer, you will report to the Cloud Operations Lead and will be responsible for:-
- Providing technical expertise, support, and specialist leadership in managing operational Cloud Operations services.
- Supporting the delivery of projects by taking ownership and leading on Cloud Operations related work packages, tasks, and deliverables.
- Collaborating with authorities and to foster and maintain excellent working relationships with staff at all levels
- Leading on risk and issue management, owning identified risks through mitigation and closure.
If you possess a combination of some of the following skills, then LETS TALK!
- Previous experience in a similar role, championing Cloud Operations, DevOps and SRE principles, approaches, and best practices.
- Experience with Azure DevOps CI/CD Pipelines (or equivalent tooling).
- Experience of working within an Agile working environment.
- Defining Infrastructure as Code with all of, or either, Azure Bicep, ARM or Terraform.
- Excellent experience using Azure in a broad sense i.e:
Designing and developing small infrastructures (limited to single systems)
Networking infrastructure concepts such as Azure DNS, Azure Firewalls, ExpressRoute, Virtual WANs and vNet Peering.
Provisioning of Azure hosted databases
Working with a hybrid Azure tenant with some infrastructure in physical data centres
Active Directory Identity and Access Management
Platform as a Service features
Logging, Monitoring and Alerting, including Monitor, Alerts, Dashboards, Sentinel; Defender
What you'll get in return
In return, you will be rewarded with ongoing career development and training, an industry-leading pension scheme and 35 days holiday plus bank holidays.
What you need to do now
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