Azure Cloud Engineer - 6-Month Fixed Term (Hybrid)

Consortium; Manchester, City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 49,000 - 59,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Civil Service Pension scheme

Hybrid working

Flexible working

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

Public Service Ombudsman is seeking a Cloud Systems Engineer to manage and enhance Microsoft Cloud services across Azure, M365, SharePoint, Exchange Online and Power Platform. This fixed-term 6-month contract is based in Manchester or London with hybrid working and a clear focus on security and data quality.

You will collaborate with colleagues and external partners to implement IaC, automation, and robust backup strategies, ensuring resilience and regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering and supporting Microsoft Azure cloud services (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS).
• Strong knowledge of Azure networking, security, storage, compute and identity services.
• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Bicep, ARM templates or Terraform.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines and automation using PowerShell or similar scripting languages
• Knowledge of cloud security, governance, monitoring and compliance best practices.
• Good experience of backup, recovery and DR process, such as Avepoint Cloud backup and Azure Backup.

Responsibilities

• Use your Microsoft Cloud experience to improve the systems that support our work.
• Develop and maintain services across Azure, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Exchange Online and the Power Platform.
• You will work closely with colleagues, suppliers and other technical specialists to keep systems secure and ready for future needs.

Skills

Azure

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

PowerShell

Terraform

Bicep/ARM

Cloud security

Automation

Infrastructure as Code

Backup

AvePoint Cloud Backup

Azure Backup

Tools

AvePoint Cloud Backup

Azure Backup

SharePoint

Exchange Online

Power Platform

Job description

Public Service Ombudsman is seeking a Cloud Systems Engineer to manage and enhance Microsoft Cloud services across Azure, M365, SharePoint, Exchange Online and Power Platform. This fixed-term 6-month contract is based in Manchester or London with hybrid working and a clear focus on security and data quality.

You will collaborate with colleagues and external partners to implement IaC, automation, and robust backup strategies, ensuring resilience and regulatory compliance.