Cloud Engineer (Azure & Bicep)
Are you an Azure Cloud Engineer with genuine, hands-on Bicep experience and a passion for Infrastructure as Code?
A well-established UK financial services organisation is seeking an experienced Cloud Engineer to join its growing Platform Engineering function as part of a major cloud transformation programme.
This is an opportunity to work within a large-scale enterprise Azure environment, helping to design, build and optimise cloud infrastructure through Infrastructure as Code, automation and cloud governance. The team is specifically looking for someone with strong, hands-on Bicep experience who can hit the ground running from day one.
What you'll be doing:
- Designing and deploying Azure infrastructure using Bicep
- Delivering scalable, secure and highly available cloud solutions
- Supporting cloud platform engineering and transformation initiatives
- Building and maintaining Infrastructure as Code solutions
- Working closely with Platform Engineering, Architecture, Security and Development teams
- Driving automation, standardisation and cloud best practices
What they're looking for:
- Proven commercial experience developing and maintaining Bicep templates in production environments (essencial)
- Deep Azure expertise across IaaS, PaaS and cloud-native services
- Strong Infrastructure as Code background, ideally including Terraform
- Experience delivering Azure Landing Zones and enterprise-scale cloud platforms
- Strong understanding of Azure networking, security, RBAC, governance and access controls
- Azure DevOps and CI/CD experience
- Azure certifications (AZ-104, AZ-305, AZ-400 or similar) highly desirable
Contract Details
- Initial 6-month contract
- Likely programme duration of 12 months+
- Up to £600 per day Inside IR35
- 1-2 days per week in Crawley
- ASAP start