Cloud Platform Engineer

Job Description

At abrdn, enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. By combining expertise, insight, and innovative technology, we deliver solutions that empower our clients to achieve their goals. Beyond financial outcomes, we invest responsibly to build a better world.

About the Department

The Cloud Capability Centre, part of abrdn’s Group Technology division, leads the way in cloud adoption and innovation. The team works closely with product, project, and operational teams to create a robust Azure cloud platform that supports fast and effective delivery. Collaborating with enterprise IT, security, and digital teams, the Centre provides technical direction, ensures governance alignment, and drives cloud adoption across the organisation.

About the Role

As a Cloud Platform Engineer, you will play a key role in the development, automation, and operational management of abrdn’s Azure cloud platform. Working as part of a dynamic team, you will focus on building a resilient, secure, and scalable platform that enables workloads to operate effectively. You will engage with multiple stakeholders, contribute to platform development roadmaps, and support engineering teams in adopting best practices aligned with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption and Well-Architected frameworks.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and manage the cloud platform structure, including management groups, subscriptions, resource groups, tagging, and RBAC.

• Implement and manage platform services such as logging, monitoring, and guardrails to support workload teams.

• Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices across workloads, using tools like Terraform and Azure DevOps.

• Collaborate with workload infrastructure teams to ensure compliance with core platform standards.

• Support operational activities, including image management and deployment of patches to IaaS resources.

• Contribute to the platform development roadmap and manage associated backlogs.

• Automate processes to enhance security, resilience, and resource standardisation.

• Engage with teams across the organisation to align platform design with workload requirements and governance standards.

About the Candidate

The ideal candidate will possess the following:

Experience

• Proven track record in working with cloud technologies, with a focus on Microsoft Azure.

• Hands-on experience in platform development, operations, and automation.

• Familiarity with infrastructure resilience, security practices, and governance in cloud environments.

Skills and Knowledge

• Strong knowledge of Azure services and the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework.

• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform, Packer, Azure Compute Gallery).

• Expertise in Azure DevOps or GitHub for automated deployments.

• Experience in Azure administration, including identity, governance, networking, and resource management.

• Knowledge of image management approaches and AWS administration practices is a plus.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, please notify us by completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire. One of our team will reach out to support you through your application process.

Our benefits

There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.

When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days’ annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits – including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. You can read more about our benefits here.

Our business

Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas – our vectors of growth – focused on our clients’ changing needs. You can find out more about what we do here.

An inclusive way of working

Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, we’d like to hear from you.

At abrdn we’ve adopted a ‘blended working’ approach. This approach combines the benefits of face-to-face collaboration, coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. It enables colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, their teams, our clients and our business.

An inclusive culture, where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are and what we do. If you need assistance with your application, or a reasonable adjustment to your interview arrangements – for example, because you are neurodivergent, or have a physical, sensory, cognitive, mental, visible or invisible disability – please let us know and we’ll be happy to help.

We’re committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment.  We define diversity in its broadest sense – this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance.  We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone.If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.