Azure Cloud Engineer - Remote - £80,0000

Azure Cloud Engineer – Remote - £80,0000

A highly successful, growing business based in Kingston, Surrey are looking for an experienced Azure Cloud Engineer to join their tech team.

Please note – this role is remote - with the expectation that you attend the Kingston office in Surrey once per month.

As the Azure Cloud Engineer, you will work with the in house Cloud and IT teams on a number of projects and BAU initiatives. You will follow good practice deploying, optimising, securing, testing an transitioning new services into production as well as auditing and providing recommendations for improvements to existing. Working closely with the wider team you will share your skills and experience to support the embedding of Azure Cloud best practices.

Key responsibilities of this Cloud Engineer role are:

Work with the estate managers to audit the Azure set up – comparing Azure best practice and service availability, security and scalability.

Develop and execute and action plan to mature the Azure Cloud environment

Support the evolution of IT practices to more DevOps orientated equivalent including infrastructure provisioning, domain management, approaches to security, back ups and upgrades

Support the upskilling of the existing team through mentoring

Preparing and updating technical documentation

The ideal candidate for this Azure Cloud Engineer role will have five years plus Azure experience within a production environment. You will have experience of transforming traditional on premise VM based services into Azure; taking advantage of native PaaS features; databases, app services, autoscaling.

You will have a strong working knowledge of the following:

Azure architecture

Networking (TCP/IP, VPNs, DNS, load balancing)

Bash, Powershell, JavaScript, Python scripting

The salary on offer for this role is £80,000 plus benefits.