Remote Azure Cloud Engineer – SC Cleared

Data Careers Ltd; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Data Careers Ltd is seeking an Azure Cloud Engineer for a permanent, home-based role in the UK. The position requires active SC clearance and offers a £55,000–£65,000 salary plus benefits.

You will work on secure enterprise infrastructure across Azure, hybrid cloud and on-prem environments, delivering reliable cloud services, resolving incidents, and driving improvements with project, operations and service desk teams.

Qualifications

• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Azure, incl. IaaS, networking, storage, platform services.
• Experience with Azure VMs, Entra ID, CA, Azure Firewall, App Gateway/WAF, Monitor and Defender for Cloud.
• M365 tenant administration and service integration experience.
• Good knowledge of Windows Server, AD, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy and IIS.
• VMware or Hyper-V virtualization experience.
• Understanding of cloud security, least privilege access and remediation.
• PowerShell scripting and automation experience.
• IaC: Terraform or Bicep familiarity.
• Azure DevOps, CI/CD concepts and monitoring/backup tools advantageous.
• Active SC Clearance.

Responsibilities

• Support Azure cloud and hybrid infrastructure across customer and internal environments.
• Diagnose and resolve incidents, major incidents, problems and service requests per SLAs.
• Assist changes in line with change control procedures.
• Collaborate with project, operations and service desk teams for transition and BAU handover.
• Monitor platforms and contribute to service improvements.
• Maintain technical documentation, support notes and runbooks.
• Support secure, resilient and well-governed cloud platforms.

Skills

Azure IaaS

Entra ID

Conditional Access

Azure Firewall

App Gateway

Azure Monitor

M365 Admin

Windows Server

Active Directory

DNS/DHCP

Group Policy

IIS

VMware/Hyper-V

Cloud Security

PowerShell

Terraform

Bicep

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

Runbooks

Backup Tech

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

PowerShell

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

Job description

Data Careers Ltd is seeking an Azure Cloud Engineer for a permanent, home-based role in the UK. The position requires active SC clearance and offers a £55,000–£65,000 salary plus benefits.

You will work on secure enterprise infrastructure across Azure, hybrid cloud and on-prem environments, delivering reliable cloud services, resolving incidents, and driving improvements with project, operations and service desk teams.