Senior Cloud Platform Engineer (Azure) NEW

City, London
Pioneer Search Ltd

Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

City of London (hybrid)
£100,000 – £110,000

We are working with a London Market insurer investing heavily in its cloud platform capability following a recent acquisition and wider technology evolution.

This role sits within a lean platform team responsible for a central Azure environment supporting multiple business-critical systems. The focus is on delivering, stabilising, and improving a modern cloud platform, working closely with architecture and DevOps to ensure services are secure, scalable, and built to a high standard.

This is a hands-on engineering role with real visibility across the platform. You will play a key part in how services are delivered and supported, contributing to the ongoing evolution of a cloud environment that is actively being developed and refined.

The role

You will work across the full life cycle of the Azure platform, from building and configuring services through to supporting live environments and improving performance and resilience.

Operating in a lean team, you will collaborate closely with architecture, DevOps, and application teams, helping translate design into well-engineered, reliable solutions and contributing to how the platform continues to evolve over time.

Key responsibilities

• Build and deliver Azure-based solutions in line with defined architectural patterns
• Configure and support cloud platform services across IaaS, PaaS, and serverless environments
• Troubleshoot platform issues, identifying root causes and driving long-term improvements
• Support the migration and optimisation of services within Azure
• Work closely with DevOps teams on infrastructure as code and deployment processes
• Monitor platform performance, stability, and security using Azure-native tooling
• Collaborate with development and security teams to ensure services are delivered effectively
• Contribute to documentation, operational standards, and continuous improvement across the platform

Experience required

• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure across core platform services
• Experience delivering and supporting cloud environments in production
• Solid understanding of Azure networking (VNets, NSGs, private endpoints, routing)
• Experience working with infrastructure as code (Terraform or similar)
• Familiarity with CI/CD tooling (Azure DevOps or similar)
• Exposure to containerised environments (AKS or similar)
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving capability
• Comfortable working in a collaborative, cross-functional environment

Environment

• Azure cloud platform (IaaS, PaaS, serverless)
• Terraform/infrastructure as code
• Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
• Containerised services (AKS)
• Modern cloud security and monitoring tooling

Why apply

• Join a platform team at the centre of a growing cloud environment supporting critical systems
• Work in a lean, collaborative setup with real exposure across architecture, DevOps, and engineering
• Opportunity to contribute to how a modern Azure platform is delivered, supported, and improved
• Strong investment in cloud and ongoing technology development

Please apply following the link with interviews commencing next week