Senior Cloud Engineer

Senior Cloud Engineer | Azure | Abingdon | £62,000pa to £72,000pa plus bonus | 1 day onsite per week:

MARS has partnered a global consultancy to hire in a permanent Senior Cloud Engineer to join a talented IT function. This strategic delivery partners work, spans both private and public enterprises on a global basis, delivering real impactful change, improvements and transformation for their clients. With an amazing company culture and values, this business really puts its staff at the forefront of what they do.

Due to growth, they now seek a Senior Cloud Engineer who lives and breathes the Azure stack. This Azure Cloud Engineer role is incredibly varied, there is the standard Azure DevOps & GitHub, working pipelines etc, but you will also use Bicep for Infrastructure-as-a-code. The Cloud Engineer will help their external consultancy teams define technical requirements with their clients. On top of that, there is a lot of standard existing Azure Cloud support for clients and acting as a technical escalation point for internal service desks.

Our client is looking for an Azure Cloud Engineer with the following skills:

SME-level experience working within a Microsoft Azure cloud environment.

o Microsoft Azure Certifications:

o Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)

o Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)

o Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500) — or demonstrable equivalent security engineering experience with a commitment to achieve this certification.

Infrastructure-as-Code: strong, hands-on proficiency in Bicep for provisioning and managing Azure resources. IaC must be the default approach, not an occasional tool.

CI/CD pipeline expertise: proven experience building and maintaining pipelines in Azure DevOps and/or GitHub Actions, ensuring automated, repeatable infrastructure deployment.

Scripting proficiency: PowerShell and Azure CLI used regularly for automation, operational tasks, and reducing manual intervention.

Azure Integration Services: proficient in Logic Apps, Service Bus, Event Grid, and API Management for integration design and implementation.

API Development: solid experience with SOAP and REST APIs, including design, development, and secure management.

Experience with GitHub version control, including branching strategies and code review practices.

Experienced in designing virtualised infrastructure environments including compute, virtualisation, storage, and security.

Experience with security vulnerability management and remediation. Our client is offering a highly competitive salary and generous benefits package includes: Life Assurance, Income Protection, pension contributions and 27 days holiday (not including bank holidays). They also operate a profit share scheme so that our people share in the success of the business. The profit share bonus is based on company performance and typically paid out in March and September.

Joining this impressive business also brings many social benefits. They have a full social calendar with Spring activity days, Christmas events, a 2-day Summer event and 4 sponsored weekends a year.

If you’re an Azure Cloud Engineer looking for a career defining opportunity with progression and development, then please drop Lee at MARS an application.

MARS Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer and positively welcomes applications from suitably qualified applicants regardless of race, colour, sex, marital status, national origin, religion, age, disability, or any other protected status. Suitable candidates for the role will be contacted within 3 working days, unfortunately if you haven’t heard back in this time your application has been unsuccessful at this time.

MARS Recruitment is a specialist Engineering & IT recruiter working in partnership with companies across the UK and offers services of both an Employment Business (for Temporary/Contract roles) and an Employment Agency (for Permanent roles)