Azure Cloud Engineer

Azure Cloud Engineer (Contract)

Contract Length: 6 months
Day Rate: 600/day (Inside IR35)
Location: Hybrid (3 days on site – London)

We’re looking for a strong Azure Cloud Engineer to support a busy platform and cloud engineering function while a longer-term permanent hire process is underway. This is a hands-on engineering role suited to someone who can deliver at pace, work across cloud infrastructure and security, and contribute to technical direction without needing to operate as a full-time architect.

The environment is highly regulated, so experience within insurance, financial services, legal, or professional services environments is strongly preferred.

The Role

You’ll join a Platform team responsible for delivering secure, scalable Azure cloud solutions across a modern enterprise estate. The role will focus primarily on engineering and delivery, with some involvement in solution design and technical decision-making where required.

Working closely with platform engineers, security, and architecture teams, you’ll help build, improve, and support Azure infrastructure and cloud-native services using Infrastructure as Code and modern DevOps tooling.

This role would suit a competent senior-level cloud engineer who is comfortable “churning through” delivery work while also contributing to technical improvements and best practice.

Key Responsibilities

• Engineer and support Azure cloud infrastructure and services across PaaS, IaaS, and container-based environments
• Deliver Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
• Support cloud networking, connectivity, and security implementations within Azure
• Work with Azure DevOps pipelines and repositories to support CI/CD delivery
• Collaborate with platform, security, and architecture teams to implement secure and scalable solutions
• Contribute to high-level and low-level technical designs where needed
• Support containerisation and cloud-native deployments
• Help troubleshoot and resolve platform and infrastructure issues
• Ensure solutions align with security standards and operational best practice
• Work closely with stakeholders to deliver pragmatic and scalable solutions in a regulated environment

Required Experience

• Strong hands-on Azure cloud engineering experience
• Experience working in highly regulated environments such as insurance, finance, legal, or professional services
• Strong Terraform experience
• Experience with containerisation technologies (Docker/Kubernetes/AKS)
• Good understanding of Azure networking and cloud security principles
• Experience working with Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
• Strong understanding of Azure infrastructure including PaaS and IaaS services
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced delivery environment
• Comfortable collaborating with architects and senior stakeholders

Nice to Have

• Experience contributing to architecture or solution design
• Azure certifications (AZ-305 / AZ-400 etc.)
• Experience with scripting (PowerShell/Bash)
• Experience supporting cloud transformation or migration programmes

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