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Senior Cloud Engineer

Drop Table
Edinburgh, Alba / Scotland, United Kingdom
2 months ago
£60,000 – £80,000 pa

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£60,000 – £80,000 pa

Job Type
Permanent
Work Location
Hybrid
Seniority
Senior
Education
Degree
Posted
5 Aug 2026 (2 months ago)
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Cloud Engineer (Azure)

Edinburgh or London (Hybrid) | £60,000-£80,000

Drop Table are looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer to join the team.

We've been building a modern Azure envrionments for clients withn the financial services sector, as the programmes continues to scale, we are looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer to join the team and contribute to the ongoing evolution of the platform.

This is a hands-on engineering role within a live, enterprise-scale environment. You will work alongside experienced platform and security engineers to build and refine core Azure capabilities, with a strong emphasis on automation, resilience, and secure-by-design principles.

This is not a greenfield concept piece. The platform is live, in use, and central to how the organisation delivers technology.

Responsibilities
  • Design and implement robust Azure platform components aligned to enterprise standards
  • Enhance CI/CD capabilities to support reliable, repeatable, low-risk deployments
  • Embed automation across build, release, and operational workflows
  • Contribute to platform governance, standards, and engineering best practices
  • Ensure solutions meet expectations for security, resilience, performance, and cost control
  • Support the continued modernisation of architecture, tooling, and engineering processes
Technology Environment
  • Microsoft Azure (including Container Apps, Front Door, API Management)
  • Terraform (Infrastructure as Code)
  • Azure DevOps (pipelines and release engineering)
  • PowerShell
Profile
  • Proven experience as a hands-on Azure / platform / DevOps engineer
  • Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture and CI/CD practices
  • Experience working within regulated or complex enterprise environments
  • Able to deliver high-quality, supportable solutions without unnecessary complexity
  • Comfortable contributing to both technical direction and delivery

Desirable:

  • Exposure to C#, SQL Server, Databricks, Azure B2C, or Power Platform
Engagement
  • FTE Permanent role (unfortunately no sponsorship available)
  • Hybrid working, with presence in Edinburgh or London
  • Role embedded within a strategically important transformation programme

This is suited to engineers who want to work on real platforms at scale, where the work has direct impact and the standards are high.

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