Cloud Engineer

Cloud Engineer – Azure

Rate: £500 per day Inside IR35

Location: Fully Remote

Contract: Initial 3 months

Start: ASAP

We’re currently working on a Cloud Engineer requirement with a strong focus on Microsoft Azure and cloud migration .

The role is supporting an ongoing programme of work, with the immediate priority being the migration of workloads from on-premises environments into Azure . The client is looking for someone who can hit the ground running and support the remaining migration activity across the portfolio.

Key Experience Required

• Strong hands-on Azure Cloud Engineering experience
• Essential – experience migrating workloads from on-premises environments into Azure
• Strong experience across Azure IaaS and PaaS
• Experience with virtualised networking and Azure networking
• Strong understanding of DNS
• Experience with Active Directory and Entra ID
• Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform and/or Bicep
• Experience designing, deploying and supporting Azure infrastructure
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex cloud/infrastructure issues
• Comfortable working independently within an established engineering team

What They’re Looking For

The key thing is someone with recent, practical experience of on-prem to Azure migrations who can come into an existing programme and contribute immediately.

You should be comfortable working across the infrastructure and cloud environment, understanding existing workloads and dependencies, and supporting the delivery of migrations into Azure.

The strongest candidates will have a good balance of Azure engineering, migration and IaC experience rather than being purely architecture-focused.