Sr. Azure Cloud Engineer

We are partnered with a leading organisation in the Financial Services sector that is looking to engage a Senior Azure Cloud Engineer on a contract basis. This role will play a key part in shaping and operating enterprise-scale cloud environments while supporting ongoing platform transformation initiatives.

Mission

The assignment is designed to drive improvements across cloud engineering practices, with emphasis on deployment optimisation, automation maturity, and observability, enabling tighter integration across engineering, testing, and operational disciplines.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and evolve Azure-based cloud architectures
• Act as a senior escalation point for Azure platform support, including the delivery and expansion of Azure Landing Zone capabilities
• Lead the implementation of cloud solutions across areas such as:
  • Infrastructure and platform design
  • Containerised and serverless workloads
  • Data services and storage
  • Networking, identity, security, and regulatory compliance
• Ensure cloud environments are maintained using repeatable, automated, and standardised approaches
• Take ownership of monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to ensure platform reliability and performance
• Provide second-line technical support to internal teams when required

Required experience

• Extensive hands‑on experience (5 + years) working with Microsoft Azure
• Strong background in CI/CD and infrastructure automation (e.g. GitLab, Jenkins, Terraform, ARM templates or Bicep)
• Proven experience (5+ years) operating in a DevOps-focused environment
• Demonstrated capability delivering and scaling new Azure-based platforms and projects
• Previous experience within Financial Services or regulated environments is essential

If you are interested please apply directly for the position. Alternatively please send me an email at