At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and build secure Azure cloud infrastructure while automating deployments.
- Company: Join Willis Re, a forward-thinking company expanding globally in 2026.
- Benefits: Flexible work environment with equal opportunities for all.
- Other info: Collaborative team culture with opportunities for personal and professional growth.
- Why this job: Make an impact by supporting innovative cloud solutions and enhancing security.
- Qualifications: Strong Azure networking skills and experience with infrastructure automation.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
The Role
Willis Re is expanding it’s Global business in 2026 and the Cloud and Infrastructure team will need to support this growth by designing, provisioning, and supporting the platforms to enable this.
We’re looking for someone to design, build, and operate secure, resilient Azure cloud infrastructure with a strong focus on networking, deployment automation, and adherence to enterprise standards.
6 month FTC
Key Responsibilities
- Azure
- Networking
Architecture: Develop and maintain virtual networks, routing, firewalls, private endpoints, load balancers, and API Gateways.
Produce and review low‑level designs (LLDs) for new and existing services.
- Deployment & Automation: Deliver repeatable, compliant infrastructure using Terraform, Azure Dev Ops pipelines, and Git-based workflows.
Support blue/green and canary deployment patterns.
- Connectivity
Troubleshooting: Diagnose and resolve complex network and service‑to‑service connectivity issues across Iaa S, Paa S, and hybrid environments using tools such as Network Watcher, NSG flow logs, packet capture, and log analytics.
- Security & Compliance: Implement and enforce Azure security best practices including identity and access management, network segmentation, encryption, policy governance, and threat protection.
Ensure solutions align with organisational standards and regulatory requirements.
- Operational
Excellence: Monitor, optimise, and support cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability and performance.
Contribute to incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
- Collaboration & Documentation: Work closely with architects, developers, and security teams to deliver integrated solutions.
Produce clear technical documentation, including LLDs, runbooks, and standards to be handed over to the BAU Support teams.
- Core Skills & Experience
- Strong expertise in Azure networking (VNets, routing, firewalls, private links, load balancing).
- Proven experience producing low‑level designs and implementing enterprise‑grade architectures.
- Hands‑on proficiency with infrastructure‑as‑code and automated deployments. (Ideally Terraform and Azure Dev Ops)
- Deep troubleshooting capability for network and connectivity issues across cloud environments.
- Understanding of building, deploying and managing API Gateways.
- Strong understanding of Azure security controls, governance, and compliance frameworks.
- Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and diagnostic tooling.
- Solid scripting skills (Power Shell, Bash, or Python).
- Nice to have
- Experience with Observability tools like Data Dog.
- Understanding of Zero Trust Architecture.
- Snowflake experience.
Willis Re is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive, and flexible work environment.
We provide equal opportunity to all qualified individuals regardless of race, colour, religion, age, gender, gender expression, national origin, veteran status, disability, orientation, or any other legally protected categories.
If you have a need that requires accommodation, please email us at .
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