Lead Cloud Operations Engineer

Job summary

The Lead Cloud Operations Engineer provides technical leadership for secure, scalable, and resilient Microsoft Azure infrastructure, shaping cloud strategy and ensuring services support business needs. The role leads and mentors cloud engineers, resolves complex incidents, and drives automation and Infrastructure as Code while maintaining security, compliance, high availability, backup, and disaster recovery capabilities.

Qualifications

• Significant cloud engineering experience focused on Microsoft Azure.
• Proven experience designing, deploying, and managing complex cloud environments.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience with ARM, Bicep, Terraform, or similar technologies.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling and deployment platforms such as Octopus Deploy, TeamCity, GitHub, or Azure DevOps.
• Experience with Azure networking, compute, storage, databases, security, and identity services.
• Experience leading and mentoring technical teams.
• Experience implementing Azure security, governance, and compliance controls.
• Strong understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, and backup strategies.
• Advanced PowerShell scripting and automation skills.
• Knowledge of ITIL or similar frameworks is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, deployment, management, and continuous improvement of Microsoft Azure infrastructure and cloud services.
• Provide technical direction, guidance, and mentoring to the Cloud Engineering team.
• Serve as the escalation point for complex incidents, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and problem management.
• Design and implement secure, resilient, and scalable cloud solutions aligned with business and operational requirements.
• Drive automation, Infrastructure as Code, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Ensure Azure environments meet security, governance, compliance, and operational standards.
• Maintain high availability, backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity capabilities.
• Collaborate with development, platform engineering, security, and other stakeholders.
• Maintain technical documentation, standards, runbooks, and operational procedures.

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