Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Click Recruitment; Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Click Recruitment in Milton Keynes is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer for a permanent, hybrid role with 2 days on-site weekly.

You will deploy and support Azure-based applications using DevOps practices for production, staging, and development environments, with monitoring, security controls, and incident support.

The role involves on-premise and cloud workloads and requires 1+ year of Azure infrastructure experience, collaborating with architecture and development teams.

Qualifications

• 1+ year experience as an Azure infrastructure engineer.
• Experience deploying and supporting Azure-based applications using DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and support in-house applications to Azure.
• Provide security and infrastructure recommendations.
• Implement system monitoring and alerting for application health.
• Provide technical support for Azure and on-premise infrastructure.
• Maintain security controls across environments and advise on improvements.
• Monitor infrastructure performance and propose optimizations.
• Participate in out-of-hours incident support rota (4–6 weeks/year).
• Report to Platform Services & Support Manager as required.

Skills

Azure IAAS/PAAS/SAAS

PowerShell

T-SQL

IaC (Bicep, Terraform, ARM)

Azure DevOps YAML

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

Git

Job description

Our Milton Keynes based client has a permanent opportunity for a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer. Hybrid working with 2 days on-site per week.

You will be responsible for the deployment and support of of in-house developed application to Azure using DevOps tools and methodologies for production, staging, and development environments.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and support of in-house developed application to Azure using DevOps tools and methodologies.
• Provide advice and recommendations on Infrastructure and Security and proactively collaborate with architecture and application development teams to ensure the infrastructure meets current and future business objectives.
• Implement system monitoring and alerting to ensure application health state is maintained.
• Provide technical support for all infrastructure, both in Azure and on premise.
• Ensure correct security controls are in place on all environments and assist in providing recommendations on additional security improvements.
• Implement and maintain performance monitoring of all infrastructure and provide recommendations on improvements.
• Be part of the out of hours incident support rota covering nights and weekends (typically around 4-6 weeks per year).
• Report upward to the Platform Services & Support Manager as required.

Experience

• Have a minimum of 1 years’ experience in an Azure infrastructure engineer.

Qualifications

• AZ-400 or AZ-305 (desirable).

Skills

• Strong knowledge of IAAS, PAAS and SAAS mainly in Azure.
• Good knowledge of PowerShell, T-SQL, and other scripting languages.
• Good knowledge of IaC, e.g. Bicep, Terraform and ARM.
• Strong knowledge of modern application deployments and configuration techniques via CI/CD pipelines, in particular Azure DevOp’s YAML and classic pipelines.
• Knowledge and experience of troubleshooting automated and manual application deployments and configuration pipelines.
• Knowledge about agile development and modern development tools such as Git would be an advantage