Senior Cloud Engineer
Remote
United Kingdom
Full Time
27-03-2025
Job Specifications
About Smartwyre
Founded in 2018, Smartwyre is a venture-financed SaaS business delivering enterprise software to large agricultural businesses, operating in a $400 billion global industry. With an estimated 5 million farmers and over 5,000 distributors globally, Smartwyre works across the agricultural supply chain, from large corporations to local farms. Presently, we work from the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, and South America.
We are building a B2B SaaS platform to network together the commercial operations of the companies that supply the world’s farmers with seeds, fertilizer, chemicals, and services, with their target markets being the United States, Europe, and Latin America. We aim to first offer SaaS applications to solve key commercial pain points (pricing, costing, quoting), then network these companies using a common data platform (transactional data exchange, product information publication, people networking, and user analytics), and finally empower the network to facilitate new business model amongst network participants.
About The Role
We are seeking an experienced Senior Cloud Engineer to lead and guide our Cloud Engineering team. The ideal candidate will combine technical expertise with effective management to drive the continuous improvement of our Azure infrastructure, improve developer productivity, and align engineering efforts with business goals.
What You'll Do
Lead and mentor a globally distributed team, promoting a collaborative environment.
Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and support career development plans.
Collaborate with product managers, software engineering teams, and engineering leadership to align engineering initiatives with business objectives.
Act as a subject matter expert for Azure and DevOps
Define the team roadmap, aligning initiatives with organisational goals and priorities.
Promote a self-service culture by developing reusable patterns for infrastructure and pipelines.
Develop and implement build and deployment pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.
Ensure cloud spend is optimised by effectively managing Azure services like Azure App Service, Azure Cosmos DB, and Postgres.
Champion the use of reusable assets such as Terraform modules and Azure Pipelines YAML to improve deployment success rates and reduce code duplication.
Advocate for best practices in security, adopting measures like Azure Privileged Identity Management (PIM), RBAC, and Managed Identities.
Drive the adoption of automation across engineering teams to reduce manual tasks and increase efficiency.
Experience
Proven experience leading cloud or platform engineering teams.
Strong technical background in Azure services such as Azure Container Apps, Azure Functions, Azure DevOps, App Service, and Postgres.
Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Bicep (or similar).
Excellent communication skills, with experience presenting technical concepts to senior leadership.
Demonstrated success in driving cost efficiencies, improving security posture, and streamlining infrastructure deployment.
Knowledge of Snowflake, PowerBi & Grafana desirable.
Benefits
Competitive salary
Private Health (UK - BUPA) / Competitive Health Insurance (US)
Short Term / Long Term Disability Cover (US)
Critical Illness and Income Protection (UK)
Self-directed PTO
Flexible Work Location
Flexible Hours
Pension (UK) / 401k (US)
About the Company
Smartwyre helps farm input supply organizations become more profitable in the areas of incentives, price, and cost management. We provide software, data, and services that, securely connects the industry with accurate, instantly available information. The Smartwyre platform now catalogs data on more than 90,000 products, as well as 1 million+ trackable rebate and pricing combinations. Smartwyre processes more than 10 million transactions annually with an uptime of 99.99%. Know more
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