About the job

We are looking for a hands-on Senior Cloud Operations Engineer to join a large and well-established organisation and play a key role in the operation, security and continuous improvement of its cloud environment.

This is not a pure DevOps or Kubernetes role. We are looking for someone with a strong Cloud Operations mindset who is comfortable operating production environments and brings experience across ITSM, security operations and cloud cost optimisation.

• What you'll be doingOperate and support a large-scale Microsoft Azure environment, ensuring performance, availability, reliability and security.
• Take ownership of day-to-day Cloud Operations, including monitoring, incident response, problem resolution, patching and continuous improvement.
• Work within established ITSM processes, including incident, problem and change management.
• Support and improve cloud monitoring, observability and operational alerting.
• Partner with security teams to strengthen cloud security operations, including identity, access, vulnerability remediation and security monitoring.
• Drive FinOps and cloud cost optimisation initiatives, including identifying opportunities for rightsizing, improving cost visibility and optimising cloud consumption.
• Automate operational tasks and improve the reliability and efficiency of the cloud platform.
• Develop and maintain operational documentation, runbooks and support procedures.
• Support the organisation's evolving use of AI-enabled workloads and AIOps, including intelligent monitoring, automation and AI-assisted operational processes.

• What we're looking forStrong hands-on experience in Microsoft Azure Cloud Operations.
• A genuine operational background supporting production cloud environments, rather than purely project or platform build experience.
• Experience with ITSM / ITIL, including incident, problem and change management.
• Strong SecOps / cloud security experience, ideally across areas such as Microsoft Defender, Sentinel, Entra ID, RBAC, Conditional Access, vulnerability management or security monitoring.
• Demonstrated FinOps or cloud cost optimisation experience, including Azure Cost Management, rightsizing, tagging, reserved capacity or improving cloud cost visibility.
• Experience with cloud monitoring and observability tools such as Azure Monitor, Log Analytics and Application Insights.
• Exposure to automation and Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform, Bicep or PowerShell.
• Experience supporting hybrid cloud and enterprise infrastructure environments will be highly regarded.
• Exposure to AIOps or AI-enabled cloud workloads would be advantageous, but you do not need to be an AI specialist.