Infrastructure & Cloud Engineer

Salary: £Please confirm competitive rate / contact us to discuss further

Location: United Kingdom (Remote) with hybrid working as required

Contract Length: PERM ROLE

Clearance: SC

• Customer-focused and committed to delivering high-quality support and service outcomes.
• Collaborative and proactive in sharing knowledge with colleagues across support and project teams.
• Able to remain calm and professional when working through high-pressure operational issues.
• Strong sense of ownership, accountability and personal integrity.
• Continuously seeks opportunities to improve processes, documentation and the way services are supported.

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure IaaS, PaaS, networking, storage and platform services including:
  Azure VMs, Azure Firewall, Entra , Application Gateway & WAF, SIEM (Azure Sentinel), Defender for Cloud, Azure Fabric, AI Foundry, Azure Functions, Logic Apps, Front Door, App Service, Dev Box, Azure Data Factory, Virtual Network Gateways (VPN).
• Experience supporting Microsoft Entra , Conditional Access and identity governance concepts.
• Awareness of cloud governance, cost optimisation and Microsoft Azure operational best practice.

• Experience supporting Windows Server environments, including DNS, DHCP, IIS, NPS, RDS, DFS and Group Policy.
• Experience administering Active Directory across multi-domain and multi-forest environments.
• Experience with virtualization technologies including VMware and Hyper‑V.
• Understanding of storage, clustering and resilient infrastructure designs across local and geographically distributed environments.

• Working knowledge of cloud security principles, including least privilege access, secure configuration and security‑by‑design practices.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Defender, vulnerability remediation processes and secure platform operations.
• Understanding of Cyber Essentials Plus aligned technical controls and security best practice.
• Experience supporting resilient cloud platforms and disaster recovery solutions across hybrid infrastructure environments.
• Experience supporting network security technologies, including Azure App Gateway/Firewalls and Sophos firewall platforms.

• Experience implementing and supporting Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform and Bicep.
• Experience with scripting and automation technologies including Power Shell to improve service reliability and operational efficiency.
• Understanding of CI/CD concepts and the interaction between infrastructure platforms and cloud delivery pipelines.
• Experience supporting Azure Dev Ops, source control management, CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure delivery processes would be advantageous.
• Experience with configuration management tools, such as Ansible or Puppet, would be desirable.

• Experience supporting Microsoft 365 tenant configuration, administration and service integration.
• Experience with observability tools (PRTG, Grafana, Azure Monitor, Data Dog, New Relic) for SRE.
• Experience supporting monitoring, alerting and observability platforms to proactively identify and remediate service issues.
• Experience with backup technologies such as Veeam, Azure Backup, Commvault or similar enterprise backup platforms.
• Ability to assess technical risk and implement solutions in accordance with organisational security and governance requirements.

Our dedicated team would be pleased to discuss in more detail how we may be able to help