Cloud Engineer - Azure

Cloud Engineer (Azure) – 6 Month Contract - Leeds
Inside IR35 - Hybrid (2- 3 days per week onsite)
  
We’re looking for an experienced Cloud Engineer to join a critical enterprise Cloud Platform team supporting a large-scale Azure environment. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on platform support, cloud operations, infrastructure reliability, and ongoing Azure platform improvements.
You’ll be joining a team responsible for core cloud services, so we’re looking for someone who is technically strong, security-focused, and comfortable operating in a highly available enterprise environment.
  
What you’ll be doing

• Azure platform engineering and operational support
• Solution design and cloud infrastructure support
• Monitoring cloud services and resolving incidents
• Managing Azure landing zones and platform governance
• Supporting networking, security, and major platform upgrades
• Participating in an on-call support rota (less than 1 in 4)

  
What we’re looking for

• Strong Microsoft Azure experience
• Excellent Terraform skills
• Experienced coder(Cloud)  
• Experience with GitHub and Azure DevOps
• Azure Policy expertise
• Solid understanding of cloud security
• Networking and troubleshooting experience
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale cloud platforms
• Familiarity with tools such as Jira

  
Nice to have

• Azure Firewall
• New Relic or other observability tools
• FinOps exposure
• Containerisation experience
• Azure AI Foundry or AI-related cloud services

  
This is an excellent opportunity for a senior Azure engineer who enjoys solving complex infrastructure problems and working within a highly critical cloud environment.
  
If you’re an Azure Cloud Engineer with strong Terraform expertise and experience in enterprise cloud operations, I’d love to hear from you.