Senior Cloud Engineer

DataCareers; London; Remote; GBP 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK IT consultancy is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to support complex infrastructure for government clients. The role requires SC Clearance and involves resolving incidents, collaborating on issues, and maintaining high availability across cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Must hold SC Clearance.
• Experience across cloud and on-prem environments.

Responsibilities

• Diagnosing and resolving complex infrastructure incidents.
• Collaborating with Problem Managers to resolve recurring issues.
• Delivering expert hands-on support across hosting environments.

Skills

Microsoft Azure

Windows Server

Active Directory

Office 365

Virtualisation

Storage & Resilience

Monitoring & Backup

Infrastructure as Code

Firewall Basics

Automation

Security & Compliance

Job description

This range is provided by DataCareers. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

Permanent

Home Based

Are you a seasoned infrastructure professional with deep technical skills across cloud and on-prem environments? Join a leading UK IT consultancy delivering complex infrastructure support and solutions for central government clients.

We are looking for an SC Cleared Senior Cloud Engineer to play a hands-on role supporting internal, customer, and developer-facing systems across private, public, and hybrid cloud environments. You'll take ownership of escalated incidents, help resolve major issues, and work closely with both project and support teams to maintain high availability and integrity of critical services.

To be considered for this role you must hold SC Clearance.

What You'll Be Doing

• Diagnosing and resolving complex infrastructure incidents escalated from the Service Desk
• Collaborating with Problem Managers to investigate and permanently resolve recurring issues
• Ensuring requests for support are handled within agreed SLAs
• Delivering expert hands-on support across a range of hosting environments - from traditional on-premise infrastructure to Microsoft Azure
• Creating and maintaining support documentation, including knowledge base articles
• Supporting project handovers and ensuring new solutions are support-ready
• Helping maintain secure, resilient, and well-documented systems across enterprise-scale environments
• Assisting in physical infrastructure tasks when required (e.g., hardware swaps, cabling)

Technical Skills Required

• Microsoft Azure: Strong experience across IaaS, PaaS, and Entra ID (Azure AD)
• Windows Server: 2012 R2 through to 2022, including core services (DNS, DHCP, IIS, RDS, DFS, GPO)
• Active Directory: Complex environments with multiple forests/domains
• Office 365: Tenant setup and configuration to best practice
• Virtualisation: VMware, Hyper-V
• Storage & Resilience: Dell/HP SANs, clustering, geographically redundant setups
• Monitoring & Backup: Microsoft System Center (SCOM), Veeam, DPM, Commvault
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Bicep
• Firewall Basics: Fortigate, Sophos
• Automation: PowerShell scripting for task automation
• Security & Compliance: Familiarity with common standards and frameworks

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Internet

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