Infrastructure Engineer

Hanson Lee; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 54,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Hanson Lee is seeking an Infrastructure Cloud Engineer for a London-based insurer with hybrid working. The role focuses on designing, deploying and maintaining secure Azure infrastructure and enabling CI/CD with Azure DevOps.

You will collaborate with data teams on cloud ingestion, storage and analytics while building automation with PowerShell/Python and ensuring security, monitoring and resilience across cloud workloads.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience administering, configuring, and migrating Azure and related applications.
• Insurance or regulated industry background preferred.
• Strong grounding in Azure networking, security, IAM.
• IaC experience with Terraform, Bicep, or ARM.
• Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipeline delivery and support.
• Scripting skills: PowerShell and/or Python.
• Experience with Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Intune and related cloud tooling.
• Experience supporting SQL platforms or cloud data workloads.

Responsibilities

• Designing, deploying and maintaining secure, scalable Azure infrastructure using IaC.
• Enabling CI/CD and release automation with Azure DevOps for cloud workloads.
• Partnering with Data teams on cloud ingestion, storage and analytics while supporting BI infra.
• Building automation with PowerShell/Python to cut manual overhead.
• Implementing monitoring, logging, backup, DR and resilience practices.
• Embedding security-by-design and coordinating with Cyber Security on posture and compliance.

Skills

Azure administration

CI/CD pipelines

PowerShell/Python scripting

Azure DevOps

Security by design

Azure networking

IAM basics

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

Datadog

Docker

Kubernetes

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

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
• 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