Azure Cloud Engineer

Conrad Energy is seeking an Azure Could Engineer, The Cloud Engineer is responsible for building, securing and operating the Azure infrastructure that underpins a real-time platform for flexible energy assets. This is a hands-on role focused on delivering scalable, reliable and compliant cloud systems to support global deployment.

About Conrad Energy Ltd

Conrad Energy is a fast-growing UK energy company. We're powering the move towards renewables through innovation and technology. We generate power to support the National Grid when renewables can't meet demand and we buy, sell and manage energy for businesses nationally.

With a portfolio including gas, batteries, solar, wind and hydrogen, our 83 sites, operational or in construction, have a potential to generate 983MW of power making us one of the leading flexible energy providers in the country. Optimised and operated using our market-leading software, iON+, we're at the forefront of shaping a more efficient energy sector that is both reliable and sustainable.

Over the last few years, we've planned and developed some of the largest energy infrastructure projects in Europe, as well as rapidly expanding the number of business customers working with us.

We're proud to power a changing world, building a better future for us all.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement Azure infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / Bicep)
• Build and manage core services including IoT Hub, Service Bus, Functions and storage
• Support deployment of time-series data platforms (e.g. QuestDB)
• Deliver and maintain multi-environment setups (dev, test, production)
• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions)
• Operate real-time data pipelines (IoT messaging processing storage)
• Implement retry, dead-letter and idempotent processing patterns
• Monitor and optimise system performance, latency and throughput
• Implement monitoring, alerting and audit logging across the platform
• Support incident response, root cause analysis and post-incident improvements
• Ensure end-to-end data flow reliability from asset to cloud
• Apply secure-by-design principles across all environments
• Implement and manage:
• Managed identities and least-privilege access (RBAC)
• Azure Key Vault for secrets and certificate management
• Secure device onboarding and communication (IoT Hub)
• Support compliance with internal standards and external frameworks (e.g. ISO 27001, NIS-type environments where applicable)
• Contribute to security reviews, vulnerability management and access governance
• Optimise cloud cost and performance (Functions, Service Bus, storage)
• Support efficient scaling for global deployments
• Deploy infrastructure across multiple regions (UK, Europe, Asia, US)
• Work with internal teams and external providers to enable rapid, consistent rollout

About You

Skills & Experience

• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure
• Experience with IoT Hub, Service Bus/Event Hubs, Azure Functions and App Services
• Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or Bicep
• CI/CD pipeline experience (Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions)
• Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging systems
• Understanding of reliability patterns (retry, idempotency, dead-lettering)
• Experience operating production systems with monitoring and alerting
• Strong understanding of cloud security principles:
• RBAC and least privilege
• Managed identities and secret management
• Secure network design and service access
• Awareness of compliance and regulated environments

Desirable

• Experience with time-series databases (QuestDB, InfluxDB or similar)
• Exposure to IoT or industrial systems (Modbus, OPC UA, DNP3)
• Containerisation (Docker) and multi-region deployments
• Experience in energy, infrastructure or regulated industries

Personal Attributes

• Delivery-focused and pragmatic
• Strong ownership of systems, security and reliability
• Operationally aware with a production-first mindset
• Collaborative across engineering, data and operations teams

Certifications (preferred):

• AZ-104 (Azure Administrator) or equivalent experience
• AZ-500 (Azure Security Engineer) highly desirable
• AZ-204, AZ-305 or AZ-400 beneficial

This job description is intended as a basic guide to the responsibilities of the post and is not exhaustive. The post holder may be asked to undertake duties that are in line with the level of the role. The job description will be subject to regular review and amendment as necessary in consultation with the post holder.