Cloud Engineer
Posted Today by Lucid Support Services Ltd
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
Summary: We are looking for a skilled Cloud Engineer to join a growing Cloud Engineering team, focusing on designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable and secure cloud solutions. The ideal candidate will have expertise in Azure, Terraform, and ServiceNow, and will collaborate closely with various teams to deliver reliable cloud services. This role emphasizes automation and performance optimization for applications and databases. Strong communication and problem-solving skills are essential for success in this position.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain cloud-based solutions for applications and databases in Microsoft Azure.
- Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, ensuring consistency, compliance, and scalability.
- Develop and maintain automation workflows to streamline provisioning, monitoring, and incident resolution.
- Integrate and manage ServiceNow workflows for cloud service requests, change management, and incident tracking.
- Work with application owners to migrate and optimise workloads in the cloud, including database deployments (SQL, PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB, etc.).
- Monitor system performance, troubleshoot issues, and implement performance tuning for applications and databases.
- Ensure cloud environments meet security, compliance, and governance standards.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
- Provide documentation, knowledge sharing, and training across teams.
- Participate in on-call rotation and incident response as needed.
Key Skills:
- Proven experience as a Cloud Engineer or similar role, with a focus on applications and databases.
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure services, particularly:
- App Services, AKS, Functions
- Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL, Managed Databases
- Networking, security, monitoring, and cost management
- Proficiency with Terraform for Infrastructure as Code.
- Hands-on experience integrating ServiceNow with cloud operations.
- Solid understanding of cloud security principles and best practices.
- Experience with automation (PowerShell, Python, or similar).
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Nottingham
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
We are seeking a skilled Cloud Engineer with expertise in applications, databases, and automation to join our customers growing Cloud Engineering team. The successful candidate will play a key role in designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud solutions, ensuring all applications and databases are scalable, secure, and resilient. A strong background in Azure, Terraform, and ServiceNow is essential. This role will involve close collaboration with application owners, database administrators, DevOps teams, and service management teams to deliver high-performing, reliable, and cost-optimised cloud services.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain cloud-based solutions for applications and databases in Microsoft Azure.
- Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, ensuring consistency, compliance, and scalability.
- Develop and maintain automation workflows to streamline provisioning, monitoring, and incident resolution.
- Integrate and manage ServiceNow workflows for cloud service requests, change management, and incident tracking.
- Work with application owners to migrate and optimise workloads in the cloud, including database deployments (SQL, PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB, etc.).
- Monitor system performance, troubleshoot issues, and implement performance tuning for applications and databases.
- Ensure cloud environments meet security, compliance, and governance standards.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
- Provide documentation, knowledge sharing, and training across teams.
- Participate in on-call rotation and incident response as needed.
Skills & Experience
- Proven experience as a Cloud Engineer or similar role, with a focus on applications and databases.
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure services, particularly:
- App Services, AKS, Functions
- Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL, Managed Databases
- Networking, security, monitoring, and cost management
- Proficiency with Terraform for Infrastructure as Code.
- Hands-on experience integrating ServiceNow with cloud operations.
- Solid understanding of cloud security principles and best practices.
- Experience with automation (PowerShell, Python, or similar).
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
If you are available and interested in this opportunity, please apply for further information. Please note due to high volumes of applications we are unable to contact every application. If you do not hear back from us within 7 days of sending your application, please assume that you have not been successful on this occasion.
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