Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Proactive Appointments
London, United Kingdom
6 months ago
£80,000 – £90,000 pa

Salary

£80,000 – £90,000 pa

Job Type
Permanent
Work Location
Hybrid
Seniority
Senior
Education
Degree
Posted
5 Dec 2026 (6 months ago)

Benefits

Discretionary bonus Pension scheme (3% from you, 5% from the company) Medical insurance Hybrid working

Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer – Hybrid

Our client is urgently looking for an experienced Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join their team on a permanent basis.

Please note, the role is hybrid with 3 days on-site each week.

You will assume day-to-day ownership of the firm’s infrastructure estate. With a clear mandate to migrate from on-premise legacy systems to a cloud-first model, this role demands both the practical expertise to manage existing environments and the vision to drive a modern, secure, and scalable infrastructure forward.

You will be rewarded with an excellent salary, as well as a brilliant benefits package including discretionary bonus, pension scheme (3% from you, 5% from the company), medical insurance, hybrid working and many, many more perks!

Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer – Key Skills:

  • A minimum of 10 years’ experience in an infrastructure engineering or senior systems administration role, ideally within professional services i.e. legal services
  • Demonstrated experience with Broadcom VMware Cloud Foundation and vSphere, including the ability to manage, optimise, and troubleshoot on-premise virtualised environments
  • Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Azure, including IaaS, PaaS, Azure networking, and Azure-based storage, with hands-on experience planning and executing cloud migration programmes from on-premise infrastructure
  • Extensive experience with Microsoft 365, Exchange Online, and Entra ID, including hybrid identity, conditional access, and single sign-on, with familiarity in transitioning from legacy identity platforms such as Workspace One Access
  • Solid understanding of on-premise Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, and DHCP, and the ability to manage hybrid environments during the transition to cloud-native services
  • Experience with Cisco, Meraki, and Ubiquiti UniFi networking environments, including switching, routing, wireless, and site-to-site connectivity
  • Experience configuring and managing Sophos firewalls, including SD-WAN, intrusion prevention, and web filtering policies
  • Familiarity with Microsoft Sentinel (SIEM) and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint for security monitoring, threat detection, and incident response
  • Familiarity with infrastructure and application monitoring tools, such as Auvik or WhatsUp Gold for network monitoring and Datadog for cloud application performance
  • Hands-on experience with Veeam backup and replication, including the design and management of backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions
  • Experience with storage migration, including transitioning from on-premise SAN solutions (e.g. Dell EMC) to Azure-based storage services
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for non-technical audiences and collaborate effectively across a multi-site, international organisation
  • A proactive, solutions-oriented mindset with a strong sense of ownership and accountability, comfortable operating both independently and as part of a distributed team

Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer - Hybrid

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