# Senior Cloud Engineer

**Company**: NEXT
**Location**: Leicester, Leicestershire
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £63,000 - £70,200
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Senior Cloud Engineer at NEXT, you will be a vital contributor to the creation and enhancement of their technology landscape, ensuring systems are scalable, reliable, and secure.

You will collaborate closely with architects and key stakeholders to design and deploy robust platforms across both Microsoft Azure and GCP.

Your day-to-day focus will be on driving technical excellence and platform stability through:

- Developing IaC Solutions: Leading the creation and maintenance of Infrastructure-as-Code solutions and centralised modules using Terraform.

- Automating Provisioning: Streamlining the management of platform resources and ensuring consistent deployment of PaaS-based tools like serverless functions, databases, and containers.

- Infrastructure Governance: Utilising Azure Policy and internal standards to maintain high levels of configuration integrity and security.

- Monitoring & Reliability: Implementing proactive alerting and monitoring to resolve issues early, while participating in incident response and disaster recovery.

- Cross-Team Collaboration: Working with wider technology teams to ensure seamless integration across IT infrastructure.

As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will also be responsible for:

- Coaching junior team members through code reviews, leading technical workshops, and translating complex business needs into high-level architectural designs.

- Leading technical workshops, developing engineering standards, and endorsing cloud best practices across the organisation.

- Translating complex business requirements into high-level architectural designs, ensuring long-term scalability and alignment with the broader IT strategy.

To succeed in this role, you should have:

- Proven experience with Azure Foundations (governance and scaffolding) and a working knowledge of GCP.

- A strong understanding of networking architecture (Express Route, Virtual Networks, Firewalls) and identity management via EntraID and RBAC.

- Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, Ansible, and PowerShell.

- Familiarity with Azure SQL, AKS, and observability tools like Log Analytics and App Insights.

Benefits include:

- 25% off most NEXT, MADE, Lipsy, Gap, and Victoria's Secret products

- Company performance-based bonus

- Sharesave scheme

- On-site Nursery available

- 10% off most partner brands & up to 15% off Branded Beauty

- Early VIP access to sale stock

- Access to fantastic discounts at Staff Shops

- Restaurants with great food at amazing prices

- Access to a digital GP and other free health and wellbeing services

- Free on-site parking

- Financial Wellbeing - Save, track, and enhance financial wellbeing

- Apprenticeship - Grow and develop on the job whilst gaining a qualification

- Direct to Work - Discount online and in-store, collect items the next day for free from work or local store

- Support Networks - Access to Network Groups to empower and celebrate each other

- Wellhub - Discounted flexible monthly gym memberships, with apps, PT sessions, and more

## Skills

### Required
- Azure
- GCP
- Terraform
- Azure DevOps
- PowerShell
- Ansible
- Azure SQL
- AKS
- Log Analytics
- App Insights

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