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Cloud Ops Manager (Azure/Terraform) - Glasgow/Edinburgh - 75K

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Cloud Operations Manager (Azure, Terraform) - Glasgow / Edinburgh Hybrid - up to 75K

Hybrid - 2 days per week in office - 3 days from home

Lorien's client, a fast-growing, global-reaching SAAS company with a great reputation in their domain, is currently looking to hire a skilled Cloud Operations Manager to lead and manage their Cloud Operations team, and play a key role in the next stages of the company's evolution including a new version of their core platform and offerings.

This role offers a great opportunity to be a hands-on leader, responsible for overseeing the architecture, deployment, and ongoing maintenance of the infrastructure supporting the central SaaS platform, and in this key leadership position, you'll guide a talented team, ensuring smooth operations, driving automation initiatives, and contributing to strategic decisions around cloud infrastructure.

The ideal candidate will bring strong expertise in Azure, a passion for mentoring teams, and a collaborative approach to working with both internal and external stakeholders. This is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in a rapidly growing company while also advancing your own career.

Key Responsibilities:

Leadership & Mentoring: Lead, mentor, and develop a small team of 4 engineers, fostering a culture of growth and innovation.
Cloud Expertise: Drive the management and improvement of cloud operations using Azure, ensuring infrastructure is optimised for performance, scalability, and security.
Collaboration: Build and maintain effective working relationships with key stakeholders across business units, cloud providers, and other internal teams to ensure smooth operations.
Automation & Tooling: Use tools such as Terraform, Azure DevOps, and Git to improve infrastructure automation and streamline platform deployment and maintenance processes.
Operational & Strategic Balance: Allocate time effectively between operational support, strategic development of automation tools, and leading your team toward continued success.What We're Looking For:

Demonstrable track record of managerial experience in a technical or cloud-focused environment
Significant expertise in Azure, with proven skills across Azure-based infrastructure and cloud services
Strong system administration skills, including EntraID, Windows Server, and Linux (CentOS, AlmaLinux)
Hands-on Terraform, Azure DevOps, and Git skills covering cloud infrastructure automation/management
Familiarity with service management tools and ITIL frameworks
Excellent communication skills with a proven ability to collaborate with internal teams, external providers, and other key stakeholders.
Ideally Azure SQL/MS-SQL Database admin skills as well as familiarity with PowerShell/Bash scriptingIf you're looking to join a great firm with major expansion and evolution on the horizon, offering a host of benefits with staff at the centre such as remote working, bonuses and recognition rewards, healthcare, progression and more, apply now with your latest CV and let's have a chat.

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy

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