Cloud Engineer (Azure & Bicep)

Are you an Azure Cloud Engineer with genuine, hands-on Bicep experience and a passion for Infrastructure as Code?

Check out the role overview below If you are confident you have got the right skills and experience, apply today.

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 xwzovoh
• 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