Cloud Engineer – 6-month contract – Birmingham
My Customer is looking for an experienced and proactive Cloud Engineer to join their technology team. This role is ideal for someone with strong hybrid infrastructure experience across cloud and on-premise platforms, who can take ownership of platform change initiatives, drive technical improvements, and support critical production environments.
The Cloud Engineer will play a key role in modernising and maintaining the cloud estate, with a particular focus on Azure, infrastructure automation, and migration from legacy landing zone architectures.
Skills required from the Cloud Engineer:
Proven experience supporting and operating enterprise production platforms across Microsoft Azure and some On-premise infrastructure environments.
Strong understanding of hybrid cloud operations and infrastructure management
Managing Azure subscriptions, accounts, networking, identity, security controls and platform services
Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation tooling, particularly Terraform
Experience working within operational support and change management environments
Experience migrating workloads and services from on-premise infrastructure to public cloud platforms.
Experience with Landing zones, DevOps tooling’s would be beneficial
Key Responsibilities of the Cloud Engineer:
Act as the technical lead for platform change initiatives, owning technical designs and driving implementation through to completion
Provide day-to-day operational support for hybrid infrastructure environments across Azure, AWS and on-premise platforms
Ensure platform availability, reliability, performance and operational stability across production environments
Lead the migration away from legacy Azure landing zone architecture to modern cloud platform designs and governance models
Monitor, manage and maintain cloud infrastructure
Support hybrid platform operations including incident management, troubleshooting and root cause analysis
Implement and maintain infrastructure-as-code solutions using Terraform and related automation tooling
Collaborate with engineering, security and operational teams to improve platform resilience, scalability and automation
The Cloud Engineer is required to work 3 days a week onsite (hybrid)
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