Cloud Engineer

Cloud Operations Engineer

Contract | London (Hybrid) | £650 p/d - £750 p/d Inside IR35

The Opportunity

A leading global alternative asset manager is looking for an experienced Cloud Operations Engineer to join their London-based technology team on a contract basis. This is a hands-on infrastructure role sitting at the heart of a security-conscious, regulated environment — maintaining, hardening, and automating a mature Azure estate during a period of strategic growth.

You will own the day-to-day health and security of the Azure environment, work closely with the security function, and play a key role in vulnerability management, identity governance, and infrastructure automation. The organisation takes cloud security seriously — Wiz, GitHub Advanced Security, Entra ID, and JIT privilege access are all in active use.

Key Responsibilities

• Day-to-day administration and monitoring of the Azure environment — subscriptions, resource groups, networking, and storage
• Patch management and vulnerability remediation across Azure-hosted workloads, including maintaining and executing the emergency patching runbook for critical CVEs
• Infrastructure automation using PowerShell and Terraform/Bicep
• Support Wiz and GitHub Advanced Security integration for cloud security posture management
• Maintain and improve the Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) environment, including session host management and image updates
• Work with the security team on conditional access policies, Entra ID configuration, and identity hygiene — including service account audits and JIT privilege
• Support DR runbook maintenance and testing

Key Skills Required

• Hands-on Azure administration experience across compute, networking, storage, and IAM
• Strong scripting skills in PowerShell; Bicep or Terraform experience desirable
• Patch and vulnerability management in an Azure environment
• Familiarity with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and alerting
• Solid understanding of network security concepts — segmentation, NSGs, private endpoints
• Entra ID and conditional access configuration experience
• Security-first mindset, comfortable working within structured change management processes
• Financial services or regulated environment experience a plus

This is an excellent opportunity to join a secondary market firm undergoing significant changes, so if you'd like to find out more, please do get in touch.