Senior Cloud Ops Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Own Azure operational reliability, uptime, and platform readiness.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident remediation.
• Design and enforce Azure governance guardrails (Azure Policy, RBAC, PIM, naming, tagging).
• Own FinOps execution, including rightsizing, reservations, savings plans, and spend accountability.
• Operate AKS with a focus on scaling discipline, node economics, and platform responsibility boundaries.
• Maintain operational runbooks, SOPs, and formal change discipline.
• Governance and Security: Implement and enforce Azure Policy, PIM, tagging, and compliance standards.
• Operational Excellence: Handle incidents, perform root cause analysis, and ensure high availability of platforms.
• Operations Mindset: Clear understanding of operations vs DevOps vs development responsibilities.
• FinOps: Optimise cloud spend through rightsizing, reservations, and savings plans.
• AKS Operations: Operate and scale Kubernetes clusters with a focus on performance and cost.
• Automation and Scripting: Automate routine tasks using PowerShell, Azure CLI, or Python.
• Monitoring and Observability: Configure and use Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Datadog for proactive monitoring.
• Security Posture Management: Work with Defender for Cloud and common compliance frameworks.
• Governance Hygiene: Identify and fix access or configuration drift across environments.
• Change and Process Management: Maintain runbooks and SOPs and follow structured change control.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Work effectively with platform engineering and application teams.

Requirements:

• Azure Core Expertise (6+ years): Strong hands-on experience managing Azure subscriptions, networking, identity, and RBAC.
• Certifications: AZ-305 AZ-104 AZ-900 (or equivalent knowledge).

Skills

Azure, RBAC, operations, ops, role-based access control