Cloud Engineer

Hanson Lee; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 81,000 - 99,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Benefits package

Hybrid working

Job summary

Hanson Lee is seeking an Infrastructure Cloud Engineer to join our London-based team. The role supports a hybrid working pattern and focuses on securing and scaling Microsoft Azure infrastructure using IaC, Azure DevOps, and cloud-native hosting capabilities.

You will collaborate with data teams on ingestion, storage and BI platforms, and develop automation with PowerShell and Python. A strong background in security-by-design and regulatory environments is essential.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience administering and migrating Microsoft Azure platform and apps.
• Regulated industry background preferred (insurance/financial services).
• Strong grounding in Azure networking, security, IAM.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and maintain secure, scalable Azure infrastructure using IaC (Terraform, Bicep or ARM).
• Enable CI/CD and release automation through Azure DevOps for cloud-native hosting, APIs and container workloads.
• Collaborate with Data teams on cloud ingestion, storage, analytics and BI infrastructure (Azure Fabric/Databricks).
• Build automation with PowerShell/Python to reduce manual workload.
• Implement monitoring, backup, DR and resilience practices.
• Embed security-by-design and work with Cyber Security on posture and compliance.

Skills

Azure infra

CI/CD

Scripting (PowerShell/Python)

Cloud security

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

Azure DevOps

Databricks

Job description

Infrastructure Cloud Engineer opportunity, London based insurer, Hybrid working, up to £90k base + bonus & benefits package

What you'll be doing:

• Designing, deploying and maintaining secure, scalable Azure infrastructure, using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep or ARM)
• Enabling CI/CD and release automation through Azure DevOps, supporting Development teams with cloud-native hosting, APIs and containerised workloads
• Partnering with Data teams on cloud ingestion, storage, analytics and BI infrastructure, including Azure Fabric and/or Databricks
• Building automation with PowerShell/Python to cut manual operational overhead
• Implementing monitoring, logging, backup, DR and resilience practices
• Embedding security-by-design and working closely with Cyber Security on posture, vulnerabilities and compliance

What you'll need:

• Extensive, hands-on experience administering, configuring and migrating the Microsoft Azure platform and its associated applications is essential — this is a core requirement, not a nice-to-have
• Insurance, financial services or other regulated-industry background
• Strong grounding in Azure networking, security, identity and access management
• Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform, Bicep, ARM or equivalent)
• Azure DevOps / CI-CD pipeline delivery and support
• Scripting and automation skills (PowerShell and/or Python)
• Working knowledge of Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Intune and related cloud tooling
• Experience supporting SQL platforms or cloud-based data workloads

Nice to have:

• Docker, Kubernetes, Datadog, Microsoft Sentinel or Defender for Cloud
• Data engineering pipelines, analytics platforms or internal developer platform experience