Junior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

BDO; Leeds; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading professional services provider in the United Kingdom is seeking a Junior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to support the cloud engineering team. Key responsibilities include administering Azure cloud services, automating tasks with PowerShell, and participating in various IT projects. The ideal candidate will have more than 4 years of IT experience, strong PowerShell skills, and familiarity with Azure technologies. This position offers opportunities to contribute to significant infrastructure improvements and professional development.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of commercial IT experience in enterprise infrastructure implementation and administration.
• Intermediate to advanced PowerShell knowledge.
• 2+ years of experience with Azure technologies.

Responsibilities

• Assist in administration of core cloud platform services across Azure technologies.
• Automate re-occurring tasks using Azure Automation.
• Participate in projects regarding service changes.

Skills

PowerShell

Azure Automation

Problem solving

Teamwork

Communication

Tools

Azure SQL

Bicep

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Job description

About BDO

BDO is the leading mid-tier professional services provider globally. In 2024, we recorded global revenues of over US$15 billion across our core service lines - Audit & Assurance, Tax, Advisory, and Business Services & Outsourcing. With a worldwide community of over 119k professionals operating in 166 countries and territories, we’re dedicated to helping our clients navigate complex financial and strategic challenges, aligned to our core purpose ‘ People helping people. ’

More information about BDO can be found on www.bdo.global .

Why join us?

A great place to work

Building a thriving global team is an essential pillar of our bold new vision Global solutions. Driven to be the best - so it’s no surprise that our offices around the world are regularly recognised with awards and accolades. We’re a people-powered business, with a diverse, dynamic and inclusive international team who are committed to excellence, innovation, and integrity .

Professional growth

Our collaborative, international environment fosters professional growth and development, to ensure that all our people thrive. We’re committed to transferring and sharing resources, knowledge, skills, and experience across our organisation, and our Global Mobility Programme provides the gateway to a whole world of opportunities.

Make a difference

We believe businesses have both an economic imperative and an ethical responsibility to contribute to a more sustainable and equitable world. In 2021, we committed to achieving net‑zero carbon emissions by 2050 or sooner. As part of our global sustainability efforts, we continue to integrate responsible practices into our operations and work with clients to support their own net‑zero journeys. In addition, we’re proud to support thousands of colleagues around the globe to ‘give back’ in the communities in which we operate.

Position : Junior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

This role is centred on supporting members of the cloud engineering team with process improvements and automation while fostering hands‑on experience with designing, deploying, and automating technical infrastructure for BDO Global IT. Key responsibilities include assisting colleagues with infrastructure as code, system administration, and operations across the application portfolio, while also helping manage applications to maintain data integrity, availability, performance, recoverability, and security in line with established policies and service levels.

Key accountabilities :

• Assist in administration of core cloud platform services across a variety of Microsoft cloud (Azure) technologies.
• Automation of re‑occurring tasks and processes related to the Applications and Cloud Infrastructure, using tools such as Azure Automation and PowerShell.
• Standardisation and documentation of common procedures that cannot be easily automated, for execution by other resources or teams.
• Assisting in the deployment of pipelines and creating infrastructure as code templates to support them.
• Working to resolve tickets as they are escalated to our team. Communicating effectively with both internal and external resources via the helpdesk system, email, voice and Teams. Operating in accordance with ITSM standards.
• Provide customer support in addition to general duties and contribution to team objectives.
• Participate in the projects that change existing services, establish new services or retire services from an operational implementation and support perspective with guidance from the senior engineers.

Qualifications and experience

• 4+ years of commercial IT experience in enterprise infrastructure implementation and administration.
• Intermediate to advanced PowerShell knowledge.
• 2+ years of experience with intermediate level knowledge in the following technologies: Azure Automation, Azure PaaS infrastructure, such as Azure apps, Azure storage, Key Vault, Azure SQL Failover groups, Azure Traffic Manager.
• Tenant, subscription, and resource management in Azure.
• Microsoft Entra ID.
• Exposure to Bicep / Terraform templates would be an advantage.
• Exposure to deployment pipelines in Azure DevOps and / or Octopus Deploy would be an advantage.
• Experience working with custom internally developed applications and interacting with development teams preferred.
• Knowledge of ITIL, or other IT Service Management methodology framework, and 3+ years of experience working in an environment with: adherence to formal change management processes; delivery of services and support to defined service levels; experience using IT Service Management systems; effectively demonstrates teamwork, problem solving, initiative and integrity; strong communication skills, both interpersonal and written; able to properly organise and structure workloads and time management.

This role requires a strong working relationship with both internal and external resources :

Internal

• BDO Global IT Infrastructure team (~20 members).
• BDO Global IT leadership team.
• BDO Global IT development teams.
• BDO Global IT security team.

External

• Member firms (our customers).
• Short and long‑term contractors.

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