Azure Cloud Engineer
UBDSBuild Azure infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines and storage solutions for UBDS Group. Help deliver secure, scalable cloud services for client projects.
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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.
Senior Cloud Platform Engineer | Azure, AWS | London Hybrid
Senior Cloud Platform Engineer responsible for Azure infrastructure supporting SMG’s connected commerce marketing platform. The role covers AWS migration, observability, and enablement for product squads.
Description
- Design, build, and operate the cloud platform that supports SMG’s products
- Partner with product squads from discovery through go-live, delivering production infrastructure
- Migrate remaining AWS workloads into the Azure landing zone
- Own and continuously improve the Azure landing zone and underlying cloud foundations
- Operate SRE and observability tooling for metrics, traces, and logs
- Integrate Datadog observability and well-defined SLO dashboards into products
- Help shape the platform roadmap and create shared platform capabilities
- Develop Terraform modules and deployment pipelines for safe provisioning
- Implement security, compliance, cost optimization, tagging, and governance practices
- Design and operate private networking and workload identity systems
- Coach engineering teams in SRE practices and developer self-service
- Create runbooks, incident playbooks, 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, including management groups, hub-and-spoke networking, private endpoints and DNS, Azure Policy, and Entra ID/RBAC
- Enough hands-on AWS experience to operate existing workloads and migrate them away from AWS
- Infrastructure-as-code expertise; Terraform is strongly preferred, with Bicep or ARM experience advantageous
- Experience authoring pipelines in a mainstream CI tool; Azure DevOps and Bitbucket are used
- Observability experience across metrics, tracing, and logging, including translating them into SLIs and SLOs with Datadog
- Incident management experience, including on-call operations and blameless postmortems
- Strong scripting and automation capability with proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language
- Strong technical documentation skills
- AWS and/or Azure certifications, particularly AZ-305 or AZ-700, are desirable
- Knowledge of Azure Landing Zones or the Cloud Adoption Framework is desirable
- Experience with container platforms such as ACA or AKS is desirable
- Hands-on 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
- Workplace culture focused on equity, inclusion, and growth
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