Azure Cloud Platform Engineer - Automation & Security

McLaren Automotive Limited; Woking; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Enhanced pension scheme

Discretionary annual bonus

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Sabbatical after two years’ service

Wellbeing initiatives

Job summary

McLaren Automotive is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, automate and operate Azure, M365 and hybrid-cloud platforms. You will implement landing zones, networks and platform services using IaC, while enforcing security, cost discipline and governance.

You will manage Entra ID and hybrid identity, oversee pipelines in Azure DevOps and GitHub, and produce designs and runbooks for safe implementations. A strong emphasis on security and FinOps is essential.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Azure engineering across compute, networking, storage and platform services.
• Experience with Entra ID, Microsoft 365 and hybrid identity management.
• Ability to design secure, scalable cloud solutions with IaC tooling.
• Familiarity with FinOps and cost governance in a cloud estate.

Responsibilities

• Build, automate and operate Azure landing zones and VNETs using IaC.
• Administer Entra ID, RBAC, PIM and Conditional Access to reduce risk.
• Own Azure DevOps and GitHub pipelines and automate provisioning.
• Deliver platform changes with risk assessments and docs for safe rollout.
• Integrate cloud security tooling and respond to posture findings.
• Drive FinOps and cost visibility across the cloud estate.
• Provide third-line support and author SOPs/runbooks.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to explain cloud risks and options.

Skills

Azure engineering

IaC automation

Entra ID admin

DevOps pipelines

Cloud security tooling

FinOps

Multi-cloud awareness

Stakeholder communications

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub

PowerShell

Bicep

Terraform

Job description

McLaren Automotive is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, automate and operate Azure, M365 and hybrid-cloud platforms. You will implement landing zones, networks and platform services using IaC, while enforcing security, cost discipline and governance.

You will manage Entra ID and hybrid identity, oversee pipelines in Azure DevOps and GitHub, and produce designs and runbooks for safe implementations. A strong emphasis on security and FinOps is essential.