Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 8 May 2026
LOCATION
London
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
CATEGORY
Technology
This employer holds a UK Home Office sponsor license — sponsorship for this specific role is at the employer’s discretion

SKILLS

Azure Terraform Bicep PowerShell CI/CD Windows Server Administration Linux Administration Kubernetes

FULL DESCRIPTION

Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is hiring a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer in London, United Kingdom. Apply now to join our team.

Welcome to [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]

We're delighted you're interested in being a part of [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]. In the last decade, [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] has transformed from a largely domestic, consumer-focused provider of foreign exchange to an end-to-end global payments' ecosystem. [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is a place where energy, commitment to our shared success and collaboration are core to our DNA. Find out more about [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]'s offering, global footprint and capabilities here.

Your Next Challenge

As a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer, you'll take ownership of day-to-day operations, and deliver impactful projects across Azure and IaaS (Windows and Linux). You'll enhance landing zones, build reusable modules, and drive automation to strengthen our cloud platform.

Key Responsibilities

  • Operate and improve Azure platform services and IaaS workloads across Windows and Linux.
  • Implement hardening baselines and patch orchestration, maintain desired state with DSC or Ansible.
  • Enforce secure RBAC, Azure Policy, and identity patterns with AAD and PIM.
  • Own observability runbooks and baselines including alerting, metrics, logs, dashboards, backups, and DR drills.
  • Administer Windows Server (AD, GPO, IIS) and provide Linux support.
  • Contribute to landing zones and reusable platform modules using Bicep and Terraform.
  • Implement secure connectivity: hub-and-spoke, vWAN, Private Endpoints, DNS, hybrid links.
  • Support VMware-to-Azure migrations.
  • Deliver CI/CD pipeline templates in Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
  • Enable the Internal Developer Platform for IaC/CaC self-service provisioning.
  • Embed secure-by-default patterns and SRE practices.
  • Support FinOps guardrails with tagging, budgets, and alerts.
  • Mentor and coach platform engineers.
  • Partner with DevOps and SRE to standardize container and registry patterns.
  • Contribute to technical governance forums.

Skills, Qualifications and Experience Required

  • Azure platform operations across enterprise IaaS and PaaS.
  • Strong Windows Server administration with practical Linux experience.
  • Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform and/or Bicep.
  • Configuration-as-Code with Ansible and/or DSC.
  • Automation and scripting with PowerShell and Bash.
  • CI/CD using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
  • Azure networking fundamentals.
  • Containers and Kubernetes exposure (AKS or ARO).
  • Observability and reliability concepts.
  • Security and compliance: Zero Trust, IAM, Defender.
  • Cost optimisation using FinOps practices.

Fostering a Culture of Belonging and Inclusivity

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is committed to creating a workplace where every individual feels valued, respected, and included. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we actively cultivate an inclusive culture. You can also find [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] on Facebook, Twitter UK, Twitter Americas, Instagram, LinkedIn.

Sign up free — access 45,000+ UK sponsor-licensed jobs