Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Our Milton Keynes based client has a permanent opportunity for a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer. Hybrid working with 2 days on-site per week. You will be responsible for the deployment and support of of in-house developed application to Azure using DevOps tools and methodologies for production, staging, and development environments. Responsibilities: • Deploy and support of in-house developed application to Azure using DevOps tools and methodologies. • Provide advice and recommendations on Infrastructure and Security and proactively collaborate with architecture and application development teams to ensure the infrastructure meets current and future business objectives. • Implement system monitoring and alerting to ensure application health state is maintained. • Provide technical support for all infrastructure, both in Azure and on premise. • Ensure correct security controls are in place on all environments and assist in providing recommendations on additional security improvements. • Implement and maintain performance monitoring of all infrastructure and provide recommendations on improvements. • Be part of the out of hours incident support rota covering nights and weekends (typically around 4-6 weeks per year). • Report upward to the Platform Services & Support Manager as required. Experience: • Have a minimum of 1 years’ experience in an Azure infrastructure engineer. Qualifications: • AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator or comparable certification (essential). • AZ-400 or AZ-305 (desirable). Skills: • Strong knowledge of IAAS, PAAS and SAAS mainly in Azure. • Good knowledge of PowerShell, T-SQL, and other scripting languages. • Good knowledge of IaC, e.g. Bicep, Terraform and ARM. • Strong knowledge of modern application deployments and configuration techniques via CI/CD pipelines, in particular Azure DevOp’s YAML and classic pipelines. • Knowledge and experience of troubleshooting automated and manual application deployments and configuration pipelines. • Knowledge about agile development and modern development tools such as Git would be an advantage