Cloud Engineer - Azure (Analyst/Sr Analyst)

About the role

Accenture's Avanade practice is hiring a Cloud Engineer (Analyst or Senior Analyst) to support the delivery of modern cloud solutions using Microsoft Azure and the broader Microsoft technology stack. You will work alongside experienced consultants and architects to help clients adopt and optimise cloud and DevOps practices, growing your hands-on skills across build, release and operational support.

Key responsibilities

• Support the build, maintenance and execution of DevOps CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement Azure cloud solutions using Microsoft technologies under the guidance of senior team members.
• Contribute to Azure standards, patterns and best practices such as documentation, reusable templates and consistent configuration.
• Take part in project delivery: requirements analysis, implementation, testing and documentation.
• Implement and support Azure infrastructure and platform services to meet security, reliability and business needs.
• Help assess customer workloads for suitability to move to Azure.
• Support troubleshooting and operations (monitoring, logging, alerting) to keep solutions stable.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in a relevant field and/or 1-3 years of experience in the IT sector.
• Preferred: Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (or within 1 year of hire).
• Analytical, curious and agile, with a problem-solving, quality-driven approach and good communication skills.

Required skills

• CI/CD concepts with Azure DevOps or GitHub.
• Foundational knowledge or hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (ARM, Bicep, Terraform or similar).
• Working knowledge of Azure core services: compute, storage, networking, identity.
• Experience supporting or implementing Azure IaaS and/or PaaS solutions.
• Familiarity with monitoring/logging/alerting tools such as Azure Monitor and Log Analytics.
• Basic Azure networking (VNets, subnets, NSGs, peering) and awareness of high availability, backup and disaster recovery.
• Entra ID (Azure AD), RBAC and MFA concepts; AKS exposure is a plus.

What we offer

• Training of at least 80 hours per year and paid certifications.
• Access to technical and skilled resources globally and a dedicated career advisor.