Principal Cloud Engineer - Azure - Manchester

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Manchester, United Kingdom

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£78,000 pa

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£78,000 pa

Job Type: Permanent
Work Location: Hybrid
Seniority: Lead
Education: Degree
Posted: 8 May 2026 (Today)

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Education: Degree
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Principal Cloud Engineer - Azure

Manchester (Hybrid - 1 day per week on-site)

Salary up to £78,000 + Bonus

We are supporting a UK-based organisation undertaking a significant, multi-year technology transformation. As part of this, they are investing heavily in their cloud platform and are seeking a Principal Cloud Engineer to play a key role in shaping and delivering their Azure environment.

This position is suited to a hands-on engineer who enjoys building and improving platforms, rather than operating purely at an architectural or strategic level.

Role Overview:

The successful candidate will be responsible for evolving an existing Azure environment from an early-stage setup into a mature, secure, and scalable cloud platform.

Working closely with architecture and infrastructure teams, you will help establish best practice, implement standards, and contribute directly to the ongoing transition from on-premise infrastructure to cloud.

Key Responsibilities:

Mature and enhance Azure landing zones in line with Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) principles

Implement governance, policy, and identity standards (Entra ID)

Develop core platform capabilities, including:

API Management (APIM) and Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Logging, monitoring, and observability

Introduce and scale Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) across the environment

Contribute to the design and implementation of business continuity and disaster recovery strategies

Support the migration of on-premise data platforms into Microsoft Fabric

Work collaboratively with architects and engineering teams to embed best practices and improve overall cloud capabilityEnvironment:

Early-stage Azure environment with low current cloud maturity

Predominantly on-premise infrastructure transitioning to cloud

Developing capabilities across governance, security, FinOps, and platform engineering

Opportunity to influence direction and establish standards within a growing cloud functionCandidate Profile:

Strong hands-on experience in Azure infrastructure and platform engineeringProven track record of working with:

Azure landing zones and governance frameworks

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)

Identity and access management (Entra ID / Azure AD)

Monitoring and observability tooling

Experience working in environments undergoing cloud transformation

Ability to operate across engineering and architecture, with a focus on practical implementation

Strong communication skills and a collaborative approachAdditional Information:

This is not a purely architectural or strategy-led role; a strong emphasis is placed on hands-on engineering capability

The organisation offers a collaborative environment with significant investment in cloud and long-term technology transformation

Hybrid working model with a requirement of one day per week on-site in ManchesterCall Experis IT on (phone number removed) for more Information

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