Cloud Engineer - Azure

Transport for London; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 68,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Final salary pension

Free travel on TfL network

Rail ticket discounts

30 days annual leave

Private healthcare

Cycle-to-work scheme

Job summary

Transport for London (TfL) is hiring an Infrastructure Engineer in London. The role focuses on cloud platforms to deliver new projects, ensure secure links between data centres and supplier sites, and modernise infrastructure with the latest products.

The engineer will script, build, and automate infrastructure as code, collaborate with stakeholders, and follow security standards to keep TfL safe. Hybrid work with strong cloud focus.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of Azure network infrastructure (Azure firewall, NSGs, expressroute, etc.)
• Demonstrable ability to automate Azure infrastructure
• Demonstrable ARM scripting
• Azure Policy creation to ISO2701O security standard
• Write and peer review PowerShell scripting
• Identify and write auto-remediation scripts
• Demonstrate optimisation and cost saving techniques to company strategy
• Create and edit YAML pipelines
• Deploying code using Azure DevOps

Responsibilities

• Understand cloud platforms and deliver new projects and designs.
• Write code to enable infrastructure as code through pipelines and assist teams with scripting.

Skills

Azure networking

Automate Azure infra

ARM scripting

Azure Policy

PowerShell

Auto-remediation scripts

YAML pipelines

Azure DevOps

Tools

AWS

CloudFormation

Python

Azure DevOps

Job description

Location

Hybrid - North Greenwich, London, 50% office attendance Model

Salary

£65,000 - £68,000 Plus Fantastic Benefits

Ad closes

Sunday 18th October at 23.59

This role is not eligible for UK Sponsorship

About us

The vacancy is within the cloud infrastructure team that manages hybrid cloud platforms across Azure and AWS (Amazon Web Services) for TfL (Transport for London). We are delivering capital projects that enable capability for our travelling public in London, and data analysis that informs decisions and opportunities. The key is optimally running infrastructure that performs to expectations that is cost efficient. As a team we must move fast in keeping pace with the rapidly released vendor innovations.

About the role

The infrastructure engineer will technically understand cloud platforms to be able to help and deliver new projects and designs. The engineer must understand how cloud platforms link between data centres and supplier sites securely. When onboarding Cloud accounts, a technical understanding on how to apply design standards, recommend, and apply security best practice, cost optimise, and modernise using latest products.

As a proficient scripter, the engineer will write code. Utilising scripting skills to help DevOps teams deliver infrastructure as a code through pipelines. Importantly assisting other tech teams write code that builds infrastructure and extract data from the cloud platforms.

The engineer will join conversations with our stakeholders. Collaborating with the team to ensure correct decisions are made when using public Cloud. Following standards from security and architect team, to define and write policies that keep TfL safe.

Skills Required:

• Knowledge of Azure network infrastructure (Azure firewall, NSGs, expressroute, etc.)


• Demonstrable ability to automate Azure infrastructure


• Demonstrable ARM (Azure Resource Manager) Scripting


• Azure Policy creation to ISO2701O security standard


• Write and peer review PowerShell scripting


• Identify and write auto-remediation scripts


• Demonstrate optimisation and cost saving techniques to company strategy


• Create and edit YAML pipelines


• Deploying code using Azure DevOps

Skills Desirable:

• Experience with AWS cloud


• Able to create infrastructure using CloudFormation


• Python


• Troubleshoot Azure Kubernetes Service, Windows Server 2025 or Red Hat Enterprise 9

Excellent Benefits include:

• Final salary pension scheme


• Free travel for you on the TfL network


• Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home or 75% reimbursement on a 28-day flexi ticket


• 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays


• TfL is committed to work-life balance, operating a hybrid working approach where business and role requirements allow


• Private healthcare discounted scheme (optional)


• Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme


• Retail, health, leisure and travel offers


• Discounted Eurostar travel and much more!

Equality, diversity and inclusion

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and aim to reflect the diverse communities we serve. We believe that a diverse workforce enables us to deliver better services and outcomes. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible. As a Disability Confident Leader, we actively encourage applications from disabled people. As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we aim to offer an assessment or interview to candidates who apply via the scheme where the minimum essential criteria for skills, knowledge and experience has been met. In some circumstances, it may not be practical to offer an interview or assessment to every candidate who applies through the scheme and meet the minimum essential criteria; in these situations, we select candidates who best meet the minimum criteria for the job rather than interviewing all who meet them.

Across all recruitment activity, we recognise that selection methods may vary depending on the nature and scale of the campaign and will be applied fairly, consistently and proportionately in line with our Disability Confident commitments.

Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need. We'll see what we can do.

We understand a confidence gap can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. So please don't hesitate to apply if you think you have what it takes even if you feel you don't meet all the criteria. We'd love to hear from you.

At Transport for London, safety, trust and fairness sit at the heart of how we recruit. Our Vetting Charter (https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/careers/our-vetting-process) explains the checks we carry out before you join us, helping ensure we create a safe, inclusive and reliable network for everyone who depends on our services. We simply ask that the information you provide is honest and accurate so we can progress your application smoothly. If something doesn't match or can't be verified, we may not be able to move forward with your application but we'll always treat you with transparency, respect and clear communication throughout.