Cloud Infrastructure Engineer - Azure

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

• Annual Salary: £43,130 - £44,000

• Location: Swindon (hybrid working)

• Job Type: Full-time, 36 hours per week, Monday to Friday This role is pivotal in building, operating, and enhancing the Azure-based infrastructure that supports our web and digital platforms. You will work closely with the Digital Engagement team to ensure platform reliability, performance, and security.

Day-to-day of the role:

• Azure Infrastructure Design and Operations:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable and highly available environments on Microsoft Azure.

• Manage App Services, networking, and load balancing for .NET web applications.

• Handle DNS, CDN, WAF, and edge configurations via Cloudflare.

• Implement autoscaling, health checks, disaster recovery strategies, and failover to improve reliability.

• Optimize caching and session management for horizontally-scaled architectures.

• DevOps, Automation, and Deployment:

• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using ARM, Bicep, or Terraform.

• Implement deployment strategies such as blue/green and zero-downtime deployment slots.

• Manage secure handling of client keys and support rollback automation.

• Monitoring, Logging, and Observability:

• Configure monitoring, dashboards, tracing, and alerting using Azure Monitor and Application Insights.

• Track and remediate application errors and manage server performance analysis.

• Security and Compliance:

• Implement IAM, secrets management, TLS, and other security controls.

• Manage firewall rules, private endpoints, WAF, IP allow/deny lists, and bot protection.

• Documentation and Collaboration:

• Produce and maintain architecture documentation and operational runbooks.

• Collaborate with software developers and third-party suppliers to align infrastructure with application needs.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience with Azure App Services, virtual machines, subnets, load balancing, and scaling.

• Expertise in networking, CDN strategies, and traffic flow management.

• Familiarity with Cloudflare, including caching rules, headers, and bot protection.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps automation, and collaboration workflows.

• Strong understanding of disaster recovery, backup, failover, and load testing practices.

• Ideally, experience within an Agile project management structure.

• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to diagnose complex infrastructure issues quickly.