Hays

Hays

Manchester, North West

Infrastructure Cloud Engineer

Full-Time£50,000 - 70,000 per yearпозавчераUnited Kingdom
IT

Job Description

Salary: £50,000 - 70,000 per year

Requirements:
  • Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure
  • Experience supporting enterprise infrastructure environments
  • Knowledge of cloud security and governance best practices
  • Experience with infrastructure automation and scripting
  • Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
  • Good understanding of networking principles including DNS, VPNs and virtual networking
  • Experience supporting Windows and/or Linux server environments
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Experience with Azure Landing Zones would be advantageous
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code would be advantageous
  • Experience with Fortinet technologies would be advantageous
  • Experience with PowerShell, Python or Bash scripting would be advantageous
  • Experience with Azure Monitor and cloud monitoring tools would be advantageous
  • Experience in multi-site or international enterprise environments would be advantageous
Responsibilities:
  • Design and support Microsoft Azure cloud environments
  • Build highly available, scalable and secure infrastructure platforms
  • Implement Infrastructure as Code and automation solutions
  • Manage cloud networking, security, identity and access management
  • Monitor system performance, availability and reliability
  • Support disaster recovery, backup and business continuity planning
  • Drive security improvements and cloud governance initiatives
  • Optimise cloud spend and infrastructure performance
  • Produce technical documentation, standards and operational procedures
  • Collaborate with infrastructure, operations and security teams on strategic projects
Technologies:
  • Azure
  • Bash
  • Cloud
  • Support
  • Linux
  • PowerShell
  • Python
  • Security
  • Windows
  • DevOps

More:

We are a large international organisation undergoing significant investment in our cloud and infrastructure platforms. Based in Manchester, we offer a permanent full-time opportunity for an experienced Infrastructure Cloud Engineer to work in a complex, multi-site environment supporting critical business operations running 24/7. This role gives you the chance to help shape our cloud strategy, improve our security posture and drive infrastructure automation while collaborating across operations, security and technical teams. We also offer ongoing career development and training in an enviable working environment.

last updated 36 week of 2026

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About Hays

Hays

Hays

Manchester

IT

Skills & Technologies

PythonGoScalaAzureLinuxAIDevOpsUXUI

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