Cloud Engineer

MARS Recruitment; Abingdon; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 61,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life Assurance

Income Protection

Pension contributions

27 days holiday

Profit share scheme

Job summary

MARS Recruitment is partnering with a global consultancy to recruit a Cloud Engineer in Abingdon. The role drives the cloud delivery engine, building, deploying and maintaining infrastructure using a code-first approach with Bicep, PowerShell and Azure CLI.

The ideal candidate will have solid Azure experience, SC-900 certification, IaC with Bicep, and scripting proficiency. The package includes up to £55,000 per year plus a bonus, with 1 day onsite per week and a strong benefits scheme.

Qualifications

• Experience with Microsoft Azure cloud environments.
• Industry-standard security practices and ISO 27001/Cyber Essentials Plus awareness.
• Infrastructure-as-code using Bicep for deploying Azure resources.
• Scripting with PowerShell and Azure CLI for automation and ops tasks.
• Experience deploying and managing compute, storage, and networking in Azure.
• Security vulnerability management and remediation.
• Experience with Windows Server and SQL Server administration.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy and maintain cloud infrastructure following code-first and automation-first principles.
• Ensure reliable, secure cloud operations at scale across internal and client-facing projects.
• Work with Azure, Bicep, PowerShell and Azure CLI to implement and manage resources.
• Collaborate with ITSM and security teams to ensure compliance and incident response.

Skills

Azure

SC-900

Bicep

PowerShell

Azure CLI

Virtualisation

Security

Windows Server

SQL Server

ISO 27001

Cyber Essentials Plus

Communication

Tools

PowerShell

Azure CLI

Bicep

Job description

Cloud Engineer | Abingdon | up to £55,000pa plus bonus | 1 day onsite per week:

MARS has partnered a global consultancy to hire in a permanent Cloud Engineer to join a talented IT function. This strategic delivery partners work, spans both private and public enterprises on a global basis, delivering real impactful change, improvements and transformation for their clients. With an amazing company culture and values, this business really puts its staff at the forefront of what they do.

This Cloud Engineer role is the delivery engine of the organisations Cloud function. Working to designs and standards set by the Cloud Operations Manager, this role is responsible for building, deploying, and maintaining the cloud infrastructure that powers both internal operations and its client-facing project delivery. My client’s cloud function operates with a code-first, automation-first philosophy. That means the Cloud Engineer is expected to build and manage infrastructure through code, using (not limited to) Bicep, PowerShell, and Azure CLI as standard tools of the role. The Cloud Engineer will play a critical role in ensuring consistent, reliable, and secure cloud operations at scale.

Our client is looking for a Cloud Engineer with the following skills:

• Good level of experience working within a Microsoft Azure cloud environment.
• Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals (SC-900)
• Practical experience with infrastructure-as-code: working knowledge of Bicep for deploying and managing Azure resources. This is a core expectation of the role, not a nice-to-have.
• Scripting proficiency: regular use of PowerShell and Azure CLI for automation, configuration, and operational tasks.
• Experienced deploying virtualised infrastructure environments including compute, virtualisation, storage, and security.
• Experience with security vulnerability management and remediation.
• Experience administrating Microsoft environments such as Windows Server and SQL Server. Familiarity with ITSM tooling and service desk processes.
• Experience working within or toward ISO 27001 and/or Cyber Essentials Plus certified environments.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.

Our client is offering a highly competitive salary and generous benefits package includes:

• Life Assurance
• Income Protection
• pension contributions
• 27 days holiday (not including bank holidays)
• profit share scheme (bonus typically paid out in March and September)

Joining this impressive business also brings many social benefits.

• They have a full social calendar with Spring activity days, Christmas events, a 2-day Summer event and 4 sponsored weekends a year.

MARS Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer and positively welcomes applications from suitably qualified applicants regardless of race, colour, sex, marital status, national origin, religion, age, disability, or any other protected status. Suitable candidates for the role will be contacted within 3 working days, unfortunately if you haven’t heard back in this time your application has been unsuccessful at this time.