Azure Cloud Engineer at Levy Global, Leeds, £Contract Rate

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 Engineer 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 environments