Azure CloudOps Engineer

Role - Azure CloudOps Engineer

Employment Type - Fixed term contract - 6 months

Mode - Hybrid/ Remote

Role Overview:

We are seeking an Azure CloudOps Engineer to join our cloud operations function and support the delivery of resilient, scalable, and highly automated cloud platforms. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing and operating cloud infrastructure, implementing Infrastructure as Code, enhancing observability and AIOps capabilities, and driving automation across both application and infrastructure lifecycles.

This role combines Cloud Engineering, DevOps, SRE, and AIOps practices, leveraging automation, AI-assisted operations, and self-healing capabilities to improve platform reliability, operational efficiency, and service availability.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Design, deploy, and support scalable, resilient, and self-healing cloud infrastructure across Azure and hybrid cloud environments, with exposure to AWS considered beneficial.

2. Define and manage infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools including Terraform, Helm, CloudFormation, and Ansible.

3. Build, maintain, and optimise CI/CD pipelines supporting both application and infrastructure deployments.

4. Develop and maintain automation scripts, deployment tooling, and operational workflows.

5. Implement and support observability solutions, monitoring platforms, logging frameworks, and telemetry capabilities.

6. Develop AIOps capabilities for anomaly detection, event correlation, alert noise reduction, and proactive issue identification.

7. Create automated remediation processes, runbooks, and self-healing mechanisms to improve operational resilience.

8. Perform troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and incident resolution across platform and application environments.

9. Analyse operational trends, system telemetry, and performance data to drive continuous improvement initiatives.

10. Collaborate with Product, Engineering, CloudOps, and Infrastructure teams to improve reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.

11. Support cloud platform reliability, observability, security, and operational best practices.

12. Contribute to architectural decisions and operational strategy across cloud and hybrid environments.

Essential Skills & Experience

• 3+ years' experience in Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Cloud Operations roles.

• Strong experience with Microsoft Azure services and cloud infrastructure environments.

• Strong experience with Terraform is preferred. Experience with Helm, CloudFormation, or Ansible would be advantageous.

• Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, or similar tooling.

• Strong scripting and automation skills using PowerShell, Bash, Python, or other programming languages.

• Experience administering source control systems such as Git.

• Experience supporting cloud-based applications and infrastructure in production environments.

• Practical experience using AI-assisted engineering, automation, or operational tooling.

• Understanding of AIOps concepts including automated remediation, event correlation, and intelligent monitoring.

• Exposure to AI agents, agentic workflows, AIOps tooling, or robotic process automation (RPA) concepts.

• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, DNS, routing, firewalls, and network connectivity.

• Strong problem-solving, troubleshooting, and analytical skills.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Desirable Experience

1. Experience supporting Kubernetes, Docker, and microservices-based environments.

2. Experience operating hybrid cloud and on-premise infrastructure.

3. Experience implementing observability platforms such as Splunk, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, or similar technologies.

4. Experience with AI-driven operational tooling and automated incident response solutions.

5. Object-oriented programming experience.

6. Experience working within Product Engineering, Software Engineering, or R&D environments.

7. Experience supporting highly available, business-critical systems.

8. Cloud certifications across Azure, AWS, DevOps, or Kubernetes technologies.

How We Work:  

Delta Capita is an equal opportunity employer. We positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of age, colour, disability, national origin, ancestry, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.  
  
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require any reasonable adjustments through your interview process, please use the designated space within the application questionnaire.  

This is a FTC/Contract position located in London with hybrid working. As the selection and interview process is ongoing, please submit your application in English as soon as possible, if your profile is selected, a member of our team will contact you within 4 weeks. For this role, a valid working permit for the UK is mandatory.  

Expectations regarding hybrid working: As we are a Service Provider and Consulting firm servicing clients, our policy for physically working from the office (which may be the clients' offices or our own offices depending on the client) aligns to what our clients' policies and expectations are and these vary. Most of our clients now require a minimum of 3 days per week in the office, 2 days from home, and accordingly this is also the minimum expectation that Delta Capita require. 

Who We Are:  

Delta Capita Group (a member of the Prytek Group) is a global managed services, consulting, and solutions provider with a unique combination of experience in Financial Services and technology innovation capability. Our mission is to reinvent the financial services value chain providing technology based mutualized services for financial institutions for non-differentiating services.  

Our 3 offerings are:  

• Managed Services  

• Consulting & Solutions  

• Technology  

To know more about Delta Capita and our culture click here: Working at DC - Delta Capita.