Lead Cloud Engineer - Research

Location -Newquay (flexible with minimum of 5 days per month onsite)

Salary - £55,491 plus 10% achievable bonus

We're supporting a respected UK institution with a specialist central IT team focused on enabling secure, compliant cloud deployments for research workloads - primarily on Microsoft Azure (with light AWS exposure). The collaborative team (6 people) is growing its DevOps capability and needs a hands‑on lead engineer to own Azure DevOps practices, mentor colleagues transitioning to cloud, and guide researchers in building robust, governed deployments.

This is a true leadership + technical ownership role: Azure DevOps SME, CI/CD pipeline architect, coaching/mentoring lead, and final escalation point for complex cloud/dev issues in a highly regulated environment.

What you'll be doing

• Act as the go‑to expert for Azure DevOps: pipelines (YAML), repos/branching policies, CI/CD automation, troubleshooting, and resource management ...