Azure Cloud Engineer - Kingston, Surrey - Hybrid - £80,000

ZipRecruiter; England; Hybrid; GBP 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading business in Kingston is seeking an Azure Cloud Engineer to join their team, focusing on enhancing cloud systems and practices. The role requires significant expertise in Azure and networking, with opportunities for mentoring and direct impact on the company's IT operations. Hybrid work is offered, requiring two office days per week.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Azure experience in a production environment.
• Experience transforming on-premise VM services to Azure.
• Strong knowledge of PaaS features and services.

Responsibilities

• Audit the Azure setup comparing best practices and service availability.
• Develop and execute action plans to enhance the Azure environment.
• Mentor existing team members and prepare technical documentation.

Skills

Azure architecture

Networking (TCP/IP, VPNs, DNS, load balancing)

Scripting (Bash, Powershell, JavaScript, Python)

Job description

Job DescriptionAzure Cloud Engineer – Kingston, Surrey – Hybrid - £80,000

A highly successful, growing business based in Kingston, Surrey are looking for an experienced Azure Cloud Engineer to join their tech team.

Please note – this role offers hybrid working – you are required to work 2 days per week from the office.

As the Azure Cloud Engineer, you will work with the in house Cloud and IT teams on a number of projects and BAU initiatives. You will follow good practice deploying, optimising, securing, testing an transitioning new services into production as well as auditing and providing recommendations for improvements to existing. Working closely with the wider team you will share your skills and experience to support the embedding of Azure Cloud best practices.

Key responsibilities of this Cloud Engineer role are:

Work with the estate managers to audit the Azure set up – comparing Azure best practice and service availability, security and scalability.

Develop and execute and action plan to mature the Azure Cloud environment

Support the evolution of IT practices to more DevOps orientated equivalent including infrastructure provisioning, domain management, approaches to security, back ups and upgrades

Support the upskilling of the existing team through mentoring

Preparing and updating technical documentation

The ideal candidate for this Azure Cloud Engineer role will have five years plus Azure experience within a production environment. You will have experience of transforming traditional on premise VM based services into Azure; taking advantage of PaaS features; databases, app services, autoscaling.

You will have a strong working knowledge of the following:

Azure architecture

Networking (TCP/IP, VPNs, DNS, load balancing)

Bash, Powershell, JavaScript, Python scripting

The salary on offer for this role is £80,000 plus benefits.