Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Job Title Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Ref # 59439 Date posted Thursday, September 10, 2026 Country United Kingdom Location Woking Business area IT Department IT Position level 5 - Supervisory / Professional​ - (L-16) Working time Full Time Contract type Permanent Working pattern 9am - 6pm Monday to Friday What to Expect The Cloud Infrastructure Engineer designs, builds, automates and operates McLaren’s Azure, Microsoft 365 and hybrid-cloud platforms, keeping them secure, resilient, well-governed and cost-efficient, providing deep hands-on capability across Azure infrastructure, identity, automation and platform engineering to accelerate delivery for the business while protecting production.  What You'll Do Build, automate and operate Azure landing zones, virtual networks, AVD/VDI session hosts and platform services using Infrastructure-as-Code, ensuring secure-by-default, supportable and scalable outcomes. Administer Entra ID, Microsoft 365 and hybrid identity, including RBAC, PIM, Conditional Access, group management and privileged account governance to reduce attack surface and enforce least privilege. Own Azure DevOps and GitHub pipelines, repositories, automation and certificate provisioning to deliver repeatable, auditable change and eliminate manual toil. Deliver and govern platform changes through the Technical CAB, producing designs, risk assessments and operational documentation for safe implementation. Integrate and operate cloud security tooling and act on posture, vulnerability and guardrail findings to maintain a strong security baseline. Drive FinOps and cost discipline across the cloud estate, identifying waste, right-sizing workloads and improving spend visibility. Provide third-line troubleshooting, transition BAU tasks to NTT, and author SOPs, knowledge articles and run-books to reduce key-person dependency.  What You'll Bring Understanding of how secure, resilient cloud platforms enable engineering, manufacturing and commercial in a high-performance environment.Awareness of cloud governance, FinOps, ITIL change/incident/problem management and data classification.Strong hands-on Azure engineering across compute, networking (vNET/gateways), storage, AVD and platform services.Entra ID / Microsoft 365 administration, hybrid identity, RBAC, PIM and Conditional Access.Infrastructure-as-Code and automation (Azure DevOps, PowerShell, Bicep/Terraform, CI/CD pipelines).Cloud security tooling, vulnerability remediation and secure configuration; exposure to containers/Kubernetes and multi-cloud (AWS/GCP) an advantage.Automation-first engineer who protects production and challenges the status quo with forward-thinking solutions.Collaborative, clear communicator able to explain cloud risk and options to technical and non-technical stakeholders.Curious, delivery-focused and comfortable operating in a fast-changing, integrating organisation. What We'll Do for You We offer a wide – ranging benefits package, which includes:Structured career development framework25 days’ holiday, plus bank holiday. Annual buy & sell up to five daysEnhanced company pension schemeDiscretionary annual bonus awardPrivate medical insurance and health cash planLife assurance benefitAbility to apply for a sabbatical of up to one year after only two years’ serviceBenefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shoppingGenerous parental leave policiesA range of wellbeing initiatives, such as employee assistance programme and free financial & mortgage advice Who Are We? No restraints. No limitations. We don’t simply push boundaries. We completely rethink them. McLaren Automotive exists to create breath-taking performance road cars.It takes a community to do what we do. A diverse group of people with many areas of expertise, united by their passion to deliver visionary products and set new benchmarks. McLaren Automotive commits to equal opportunity for all. Diversity, Equality and Inclusion is at the heart of our impact, it drives our innovation and enables us to truly create something special. Join us on our journey.