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Senior Azure Engineer @ Colossus Recruitment Ltd

Birmingham, England, GBOnsiteFull-time
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About this role

Salary: £82,000 - 82,000 per year

Requirements

  • Strong experience designing and supporting enterprise cloud infrastructure in Azure
  • Hands-on experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Strong DevOps and Infrastructure as Code expertise
  • Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
  • Strong understanding of networking, security, identity and access management principles
  • Experience working with database and messaging technologies in cloud environments
  • Knowledge of containerisation technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes
  • Strong troubleshooting and diagnostic skills
  • Experience producing high-quality technical documentation
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Ability to prioritise effectively and manage multiple project deliverables
  • Desirable: experience in complex SaaS environments, large-scale cloud transformation programmes, and highly available, business-critical platforms
  • Desirable: previous mentoring or technical leadership experience
  • Desirable: knowledge of security, monitoring and compliance frameworks

Responsibilities

  • Design, build and deploy cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code
  • Develop and maintain automated deployment pipelines for infrastructure and applications
  • Deploy new platforms, services and environments
  • Ensure infrastructure aligns with architectural standards and engineering best practices
  • Support project delivery with high-quality, scalable and resilient infrastructure solutions
  • Improve deployment processes and engineering efficiency
  • Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management
  • Promote standardisation and repeatability across deployment processes
  • Support cloud-native applications and containerised workloads
  • Provide fourth-line technical support and infrastructure escalation when required
  • Participate in an on-call rota supporting critical systems and services
  • Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, networking and platform issues
  • Produce and maintain technical documentation
  • Mentor and support Infrastructure Engineering team members, share best practices and promote engineering excellence
  • Collaborate with architects, developers and project teams to deliver successful outcomes
  • Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives across the wider technology function

Technologies

  • API
  • Ansible
  • Azure
  • Bash
  • CI/CD
  • Cloud
  • DevOps
  • Docker
  • Helm
  • Support
  • Kubernetes
  • PostgreSQL
  • SQL
  • Security
  • Terraform

More

We deliver large-scale, business-critical SaaS solutions to customers across the UK and internationally. Were growing our project-focused engineering team, which designs, automates and deploys highly available cloud infrastructure and application delivery pipelines. The role works alongside architects, developers and infrastructure engineers throughout the project lifecycle, combining project delivery, infrastructure engineering, automation, mentoring and operational support. Our technical environment includes Microsoft Azure services such as AKS, Application Gateway, API Management, Service Bus, Azure SQL Server, Azure PostgreSQL, and Azure monitoring and diagnostic services, alongside Azure DevOps, Terraform, Docker, Helm, Packer, Ansible and Bash.

This is a UK-based role with hybrid and flexible working arrangements. We offer a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, private medical cover, enhanced pension options, life assurance, an additional holiday purchase scheme, and opportunities for learning, certification and career progression.

last updated 45 week of 2026

Skills

AzureKubernetesDockerTerraformAnsibleCI/CDDevOpsInfrastructure as CodeNetworkingSecurityidentity and access managementPostgreSQL

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