Azure Cloud Engineer

Senior Azure Cloud Platform Engineer Contract | Outside IR35 | Hybrid (2 days per week on-site in Yorkshire Area) Long-term contract opportunity Participation in an on-call support rota Seeking an experienced Azure Cloud Platform Enginee r to join our client. This is an exciting opportunity to work within a large-scale Azure environment, helping to build, automate and evolve a modern cloud platform that supports critical business services. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on platform engineering, automation, security, networking and cloud operations The Role You'll play a key role in designing, building and supporting enterprise Azure platform services while driving automation, governance and operational excellence across a complex cloud estate. Key responsibilities include: Building, maintaining and enhancing Azure platform services Developing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform Improving Azure Landing Zones, governance and security controls Automating cloud deployments and operational processes Managing Azure networking, connectivity and platform resilience Enhancing monitoring, logging and observability across the platform Collaborating with engineering teams to deliver scalable cloud capabilities Supporting cloud modernisation initiatives and adoption of emerging Azure technologies, including AI services where appropriate Skills & Experience Essential Strong commercial experience with Microsoft Azure in large enterprise environments Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Azure Landing Zones, Policy and Governance Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), RBAC and Privileged Identity Management (PIM) Azure Networking including Virtual WAN, ExpressRoute, Private Endpoints and DNS Azure Firewall, Web Application Firewall (WAF) and Azure Front Door Azure Monitor, Log Analytics and observability tooling GitHub and/or Azure DevOps Strong platform engineering and automation experience Desirable FinOps or Azure cost optimisation Azure Container Apps or container technologies Azure AI services, Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI or GitHub Copilot Experience working within large, complex enterprise environ ments