Cloud Engineer

Datacareers; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 47,000 - 57,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-call allowance

Generous pension

Job summary

Datacareers is seeking an Azure Cloud Engineer to manage and secure a Microsoft Azure environment across multiple subscriptions. The role focuses on governance, automation, and onboarding services with close collaboration with application teams in a hybrid work setup (Home Based / Oxford or Southampton onsite 2-3 days a month).

The successful candidate will bring hands-on Azure experience, strong governance and security skills, and the ability to drive cloud-first delivery and resilient services

Qualifications

• Senior technical role focused on managing, securing and modernising a Microsoft Azure environment across multiple subscriptions.
• Strong hands-on Azure engineering experience with governance, security and automation.
• Experience onboarding services into Azure and working with application teams.
• Experience in disaster recovery, business continuity and service availability improvements.

Responsibilities

• Act as a senior technical specialist across Azure and Microsoft cloud services.
• Manage an Azure estate across multiple subscriptions and implement governance standards.
• Design, implement and support secure, scalable Azure cloud solutions.
• Design and administer Azure Resource Groups, RBAC, Azure Policies and management groups.
• Manage Azure networking including VNets, NSGs, DNS, app gateways, load balancing and VPN connectivity.
• Administer Azure Virtual Machines, Storage Accounts and Key Vault.
• Configure and improve Microsoft Entra ID, hybrid identity and Conditional Access policies.
• Work with application teams to onboard new services into Azure and provide technical guidance.
• Support the modernisation of legacy infrastructure into cloud-first services.
• Provide technical assurance, documentation and best practice guidance.
• Contribute to disaster recovery, business continuity and service availability improvements.
• Mentor and support other engineers, acting as an escalation point for complex technical issues.

Skills

Azure Cloud

Governance

Networking

Azure AD / Entra

Automation

RBAC

Policy Management

VNet / VPN

Key Vault

Documentation

Tools

Azure Resource Manager

Microsoft Entra ID

Azure Policies

Azure Subscriptions

Job description

Contract Location: Home Based / Oxford or Southampton (onsite 2 - 3 days a month)

Salary: up to £52,000 (+ on call, excellent benefits and a very generous pension)

We are looking to recruit an Azure Cloud Engineer for a technology driven public sector organisation.

This is a senior technical role focused on managing, securing and modernising a Microsoft Azure environment across multiple subscriptions. The organisation is looking for someone with strong hands‑on Azure engineering experience who can create and govern new cloud services, act as a technical escalation point, support cloud‑first delivery and work closely with application teams to onboard services into Azure.

This is not a traditional on‑prem infrastructure role with a small amount of cloud. The successful candidate will bring genuine Azure cloud engineering experience, with a strong understanding of governance, networking, identity, automation and secure cloud administration.

Key responsibilities:

• Act as a senior technical specialist across Azure and Microsoft cloud services
• Manage an Azure estate across multiple subscriptions, including the creation of new subscriptions and implementation of governance standards
• Design, implement and support secure, scalable Azure cloud solutions
• Design and administer Azure Resource Groups, RBAC, Azure Policies and management groups
• Manage Azure networking including VNets, NSGs, DNS, app gateways, load balancing and VPN connectivity
• Administer Azure Virtual Machines, Storage Accounts and Key Vault
• Configure and improve Microsoft Entra ID, hybrid identity and Conditional Access policies
• Work closely with application teams to onboard new services into Azure and provide technical guidance
• Support the modernisation of legacy infrastructure into cloud‑first services
• Provide technical assurance, documentation and best practice guidance
• Contribute to disaster recovery, business continuity and service availability improvements
• Work with internal teams, suppliers and stakeholders to deliver secure and resilient technology services
• Mentor and support other engineers, acting as an escalation point for complex technical issues
• Strong hands‑on Azure cloud engineering experience in an enterprise or public sector environment
• Experience managing an Azure estate across multiple subscriptions
• Experience designing and administering Azure Resource Groups, RBAC, Azure Policies and management groups
• Experience creating new Azure subscriptions and implementing governance standards
• Strong understanding of Azure networking including VNets, NSGs, VPN connectivity and DNS
• Experience administering Azure Virtual Machines, Storage Accounts and Key Vault
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID / Azure AD, hybrid identity and Conditional Access
• Ability to produce clear technical documentation and explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Experience working in an operational environment with service improvement, incident/problem management and ITIL-style processes
• Exchange on-prem to Exchange Online / hybrid Exchange
• PKI / certificate services
• Public sector, policing or secure environment experience
• Active Directory, Windows Server and broader Microsoft infrastructure experience