Principal Cloud Engineer

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Hours:
35hrs per week, permanent, Hybrid, 1 day a week at the office.

Closing Date:
Sun, 20 Jul 2025

We are recruiting for a Principal Cloud (Azure) Engineer to provide a key role in the development, implementation and optimisation of our Azure Cloud infrastructure. If you are a strategic but hands on technical leader, who thrives working in a fast paced and agile environment where technology is at the centre of our organisational goals, then this may be the job for you!

Who Are We?

Not just another building society. Not just another job.

We're the fourth biggest building society in the UK and what makes us a bit different is that we're a mutual organisation. We don't have shareholders; we're owned by our members.

Our colleagues say Skipton's a great place to work, and you could be one of them, bringing with you new ideas on how we can keep customers at the heart of what we do.

Whatever your background, and whatever your goals, we'll help you take the next step towards a better future.

You will be working within our IT function as part our Cloud Engineering teams on our Azure Platform, ensuring it is fit for purpose, resilient, scalable and provides the capabilities needed to deliver value at pace. The teams consist of around 20 engineers who you will support as overall lead technical authority and decision maker. The teams work very closely with the rest of the IT function and our software and data engineering teams who are building cutting edge solutions within our Azure Platform.

What's In It For You?

Skipton values work/life balance and we are proud to support hybrid and flexible working, where possible. We have a newly refurbished head office which offers a vibrant and collaborative working space.

We have a range of other benefits available to you including;
What Will You Be Doing?

As part of our hybrid cloud strategy we are migrating many services from our data centres into Azure, as well as developing greenfield solutions and products within the Azure platform. We have a large and complex change portfolio with technology related change right at the centre. You will be providing expertise to multiple teams who are involved with the continual evolution of the Azure platform in the following ways:

What Do We Need From You?

You will need to hold an expert level of knowledge in Azure cloud services to be a credible technical decision-making authority across the platform. Your technical skills will cover core Azure services such as Azure networking, integration and data services and you will have a deep proficiency in automation and infrastructure as code using technologies such as Powershell, Terraform, Bicep and Azure Devops pipelines. Hands on experience of Azure cloud security, identity management and access control is expected. You will also need:
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Location:
Skipton, England, United Kingdom
Salary:
£100,000 - £125,000
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
Engineering

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