Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities

Platform Architecture

• Design and implement scalable cloud infrastructure for data lakes and analytics platforms using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Define reusable, modular infrastructure patterns for repeatable deployments across environments

Security & Governance

• Implement identity and access management (IAM / Microsoft Entra ID) with least-privilege principles
• Design secure network architectures using VPC/VNet, Private Link, and endpoint-based access
• Enforce data governance standards using tools such as Unity Catalog

Automation & Delivery

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and data platform components
• Automate provisioning of compute, workspaces, and platform services
• Enable policy-as-code and automated compliance checks within deployment workflows

Observability & Cost Management

• Implement monitoring and alerting for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency of data workloads
• Establish dashboards and controls for usage optimisation and capacity planning

Data Platform Enablement

• Create self-service infrastructure capabilities for Data Engineering teams
• Enable seamless deployment of pipelines without direct infrastructure dependency
• Support standardised patterns for scalable data product delivery

Requirements

• Minimum 5+ years of professional cloud engineering experience
• Strong exposure to data engineering environments and platforms (Databricks highly desirable)