Azure Cloud Engineer 12 Month Fixed Term
Contract Location: Home Based / Oxford or Southampton (onsite 2 - 3 days a month)
Salary: up to £52,000 (+ on call, excellent benefits and a very generous pension)
Security Clearance required: Please only apply if you have been a resident of the UK for over 5 years
We are looking to recruit an Azure Cloud Engineer for a technology driven public sector organisation.
This is a senior technical role focused on managing, securing and modernising a Microsoft Azure environment across multiple subscriptions. The organisation is looking for someone with strong hands-on Azure engineering experience who can create and govern new cloud services, act as a technical escalation point, support cloud-first delivery and work closely with application teams to onboard services into Azure.
This is not a traditional on-prem infrastructure role with a small amount of cloud. The successful candidate will bring genuine Azure cloud engineering experience, with a strong understanding of governance, networking, identity, automation and secure cloud administration.
Key responsibilities:
· Act as a senior technical specialist across Azure and Microsoft cloud services
· Manage an Azure estate across multiple subscriptions, including the creation of new subscriptions and implementation of governance standards
· Design, implement and support secure, scalable Azure cloud solutions
· Design and administer Azure Resource Groups, RBAC, Azure Policies and management groups
· Manage Azure networking including VNets, NSGs, DNS, app gateways, load balancing and VPN connectivity
· Administer Azure Virtual Machines, Storage Accounts and Key Vault
· Configure and improve Microsoft Entra ID, hybrid identity and Conditional Access policies
· Automate Azure administration using PowerShell, Azure CLI and Azure Automation Runbooks
· Work closely with application teams to onboard new services into Azure and provide technical guidance
· Support the modernisation of legacy infrastructure into cloud-first services
· Provide technical assurance, documentation and best practice guidance
· Contribute to disaster recovery, business continuity and service availability improvements
· Work with internal teams, suppliers and stakeholders to deliver secure and resilient technology services
· Mentor and support other en...
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