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

Ashdown Group; Kingston upon Thames; Hybrid; GBP 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A reputable business in Kingston is seeking an experienced Azure Cloud Engineer to enhance their cloud operations. The role involves auditing Azure services, implementing improvements, and mentoring the existing team. Candidates should have over five years of experience in Azure within a production setting, along with strong networking and scripting skills.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Azure experience in a production environment.
• Experience in transforming traditional VM services into Azure.
• Strong working knowledge of networking and scripting.

Responsibilities

• Audit the Azure setup against best practices.
• Develop an action plan to improve the Azure Cloud environment.
• Support the team in adopting DevOps practices.

Skills

Azure architecture

Networking

Bash scripting

Powershell scripting

JavaScript

Python scripting

Job description

Azure 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 native 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.