Senior Azure Cloud Engineer

Senior Azure Cloud Engineer
• Abingdon
• Excellent salary plus bonus
• 1 day onsite per week

MARS has partnered a global consultancy to hire in a permanent Senior Azure Cloud Engineer to join a talented IT function. This strategic delivery partner works across both private and public enterprises on a global basis, delivering real impactful change, improvements and transformation for their clients. The company culture and values place its staff at the forefront of what they do.

Due to growth, they now seek a Senior Azure Cloud Engineer who lives and breathes the Azure stack. This role is incredibly varied: standard Azure Dev Ops & Git Hub pipelines, and using Bicep for Infrastructure‑as‑code. The engineer will help external consultancy teams define technical requirements with clients, provide standard Azure Cloud support, and serve as a technical escalation point for internal service desks.

Our client is looking for an Azure Cloud Engineer with the following skills:

• SME-level experience working within a Microsoft Azure cloud environment.
  • Microsoft Azure
    
    Certifications:
    • Microsoft Certified:
      Azure Administrator Associate (AZ‑104)
    • Microsoft Certified:
      Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ‑305)
    • Microsoft Certified:
      Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ‑500) or demonstrable equivalent security engineering experience
• Infrastructure-as-Code: strong, hands‑on proficiency in Bicep for provisioning and managing Azure resources. IaC must be the default approach.
• CI/CD pipeline expertise: proven experience building and maintaining pipelines in Azure Dev Ops and/or Git Hub Actions, ensuring automated, repeatable infrastructure deployment.
• Scripting proficiency:
  Power Shell and Azure CLI used regularly for automation, operational tasks, and reducing manual intervention.
• Azure Integration Services: proficient in Logic Apps, Service Bus, Event Grid, and API Management for integration design and implementation.
• API Development: solid experience with SOAP and REST APIs, including design, development, and secure management.
• Experience with Git Hub version control, including branching strategies and code review practices.
• Experienced in designing virtualised infrastructure environments including compute, virtualization, storage, and security.
• Experience with security vulnerability management and remediation.

The role offers a highly competitive salary and generous benefits package that includes Life Assurance, Income Protection, pension contributions, and 27 days holiday (not including bank holidays). A profit‑share scheme provides an additional bonus based on company performance, typically paid out in March and September.

Social benefits include a full social calendar:
Spring activity days, Christmas events, a 2‑day summer event, and 4 sponsored weekends a year.

We encourage you to communicate with Lee at MARS for an application.

MARS Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer and positively welcomes applications from suitably qualified applicants regardless of race, colour, sex, marital status, national origin, religion, age, disability, or any other protected status.