Azure Cloud Platform Engineer

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