Senior Azure Cloud Engineer—Platform Foundations (Contract)

Flagstone; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Flagstone is seeking a senior cloud/infrastructure engineer to own Azure platform delivery, network design, and infrastructure-as-code improvements. You’ll migrate live services, maintain robust CI/CD pipelines, and build scalable golden paths for engineering squads.

The role emphasizes visible impact, independent work, and collaboration across a fintech environment. Experience with migration, security gating, and AI hosting is highly valued.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Azure experience across landing zones, networking, identity, and storage.
• IaC in production using Terraform and/or Bicep; migration experience.
• Experience building end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with security gates.

Responsibilities

• Migrate live services onto the new Azure cloud with no production disruption.
• Absorb daily operational support and incident response during migration.
• Develop and maintain production-grade Terraform/Bicep modules with drift detection.
• Design landing zones and hub‑and‑spoke networks, including private endpoints and hybrid connectivity.
• Build shared integration front doors to enable rapid partner and AI tooling integration.
• Define and roll out golden paths to reduce delivery cost and speed up squads.
• Set up AI platform foundations: AI gateway, observability, and hosting for AI tools (Flagstone Concierge) via AWS Bedrock.
• Develop infrastructure pipelines with security scanning, plan validation, and approval gates.

Skills

Azure platform

Terraform

Bicep

Networking (hub-and-spoke)

CI/CD pipelines

RBAC / Entra ID

Migration delivery

Hybrid connectivity

Azure security tooling

AI/ML infra experience

Education

Azure certifications (AZ-104, AZ-305)

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ExpressRoute

VPN gateways

Azure

AWS Bedrock

Job description

Flagstone is seeking a senior cloud/infrastructure engineer to own Azure platform delivery, network design, and infrastructure-as-code improvements. You’ll migrate live services, maintain robust CI/CD pipelines, and build scalable golden paths for engineering squads.

The role emphasizes visible impact, independent work, and collaboration across a fintech environment. Experience with migration, security gating, and AI hosting is highly valued.