Azure & Infra Ops Engineer - Hybrid (6-Month)

MCS Group | Your Specialist Recruitment Consultancy; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 92,000 - 129,000; Full time

Job summary

MCS Group is seeking an experienced Infrastructure & Cloud Operations Engineer for a six-month day-rate contract in Dublin. The role covers on-prem and cloud infrastructure, Azure services, Microsoft 365, and security controls within a modern enterprise environment.

You will collaborate with cloud, security, service desk and applications teams to deliver secure, scalable services. The successful candidate will maintain and modernise infrastructure across virtualization, storage, networking and

Qualifications

• Broad hands-on infrastructure operations in a complex enterprise environment.
• Strong knowledge of Windows Server, AD, DNS and DHCP.
• Hands-on Microsoft 365 across Teams, Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive, Intune and Entra ID.

Responsibilities

• Support and maintain on-prem and cloud infrastructure across servers, storage, virtualization and networks.
• Administer and improve Azure services including VMs, storage, networking, identity, RBAC and security controls.
• Support Microsoft 365 services including Teams, SharePoint, Exchange Online, OneDrive and Intune.
• Manage Conditional Access, MFA, device compliance and modern workplace services.
• Monitor performance, capacity and availability; drive resilience improvements.
• Complete patching, upgrades and configuration changes per change management.
• Escalate complex Tier 1/2 infrastructure issues as needed.
• Support cloud migration and technology transformation initiatives.
• Collaborate with third-party providers as required.
• Support vulnerability remediation and Zero Trust initiatives.
• Maintain technical documentation and runbooks.

Skills

Infrastructure engineering

Windows Server

Active Directory

DNS & DHCP

Microsoft 365

Azure infrastructure

VMware

Networking

ITIL processes

Problem-solving

Tools

PowerShell

Job description

MCS Group is seeking an experienced Infrastructure & Cloud Operations Engineer for a six-month day-rate contract in Dublin. The role covers on-prem and cloud infrastructure, Azure services, Microsoft 365, and security controls within a modern enterprise environment.

You will collaborate with cloud, security, service desk and applications teams to deliver secure, scalable services. The successful candidate will maintain and modernise infrastructure across virtualization, storage, networking and