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SMG is a UK commerce and retail media group bringing together Threefold, Capture, and Plan-Apps. Threefold helps retailers build and operate retail media networks, while Capture develops retail media strategies for brands. Plan-Apps combines cloud-based technology with consultancy to help consumer packaged goods companies plan, manage, and improve commerce marketing campaigns. Drawing on more than 15 years of experience connecting brands with shoppers, SMG works across consulting, marketing, and logistics and supports teams focused on the growth of retail media.
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Senior Azure Cloud Platform Engineer at SMG (London Hybrid)

Build and run Azure cloud infrastructure for SMG’s connected-commerce marketing platform while migrating workloads from AWS. Lead observability, security, networking, governance, and developer self-service across the platform.

GBUnited KingdomHybridFull-timeSeniorEnglish RequiredCloud Engineer
AWSAzureCloudDNSTerraform

Description

  • Design and operate SMG’s cloud platform.
  • Partner with product squads from discovery through launch.
  • Deliver production infrastructure for engineering teams.
  • Migrate remaining AWS workloads to SMG’s Azure landing zone.
  • Own and advance Azure landing zones and core cloud foundations.
  • Run observability and SRE tooling for metrics, traces, and logs.
  • Integrate Datadog and actionable SLO dashboards into products.
  • Shape the platform roadmap and build shared capabilities.
  • Create Terraform modules and deployment pipelines for reliable provisioning.
  • Apply security, compliance, cost control, tagging, and governance standards.
  • Design and operate private networking and workload identity.
  • Enable developer self-service and coach teams in SRE practices.
  • Write runbooks, incident procedures, and onboarding documentation.
  • Help establish the future dedicated Platform squad.

Requirements

  • Experience running production cloud infrastructure for a SaaS product.
  • Practical Azure landing zone experience covering management groups, hub-and-spoke networking, private endpoints, private DNS, Azure Policy, and Entra ID/RBAC.
  • Sufficient AWS experience to operate current workloads and migrate them away from AWS.
  • Strong infrastructure-as-code skills, with Terraform preferred.
  • Bicep or ARM experience is advantageous.
  • Experience writing pipelines with a mainstream CI tool; Azure DevOps and Bitbucket are used.
  • Experience with observability platforms covering metrics, tracing, logging, and Datadog.
  • Ability to turn observability data into meaningful SLIs and SLOs.
  • Incident management experience, including on-call leadership and blameless postmortems.
  • Strong scripting and automation capability.
  • Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language.
  • Excellent technical documentation skills.
  • AWS and/or Azure certifications are desirable, particularly AZ-305 or AZ-700.
  • Experience with Azure Landing Zones or the Cloud Adoption Framework is desirable.
  • Experience with container platforms such as ACA or AKS is desirable.
  • Practical cloud migration experience is desirable.

Benefits

  • 10% discretionary bonus.
  • £1,800 annual wellbeing fund in addition to salary.
  • Complimentary Headspace subscription.
  • £500 annual Uni Fund for learning.
  • Four additional Wellbeing Days each year.
  • Annual summer conference and celebrations throughout the year.
  • 4pm finishes every Friday.
  • Flexible hybrid working.

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