Senior Azure Cloud Engineer

Senior Cloud Engineer (Azure)
City of London
£70k – £90k

Global client within Financial Services is embarking on their Cloud transformation journey to 0365/ W365, reporting into the Head of IT.  

You will take the lead on driving the transition to Cloud for International working with multiple regions and projects simultaneously. Supported by IT professionals across the organisation, transition in-scope infrastructure and services to the Cloud aligned to global targets, localised / regional timelines.

The successful applicant will:

· Implement, manage and maintain the services used to provide critical systems to using Cloud based services

· Support the development of the existing team as they up-skill to meet current and future demands and needs

· Define robust operating procedures for day-to-day team operations with US

· Work well alone and as part of a team

· Want to get involved with the latest technologies.

Skills & Experience:

Within this role, we are looking for someone who has extensive experience as an Azure administrator with experience of IaaS & PaaS offerings, 3rd party API integrations and data handling.

Skills:

· Web Apps

· Logic Apps

· API Services

· Power Automate

· Azure PaaS

· Azure SQL Server

· Infrastructure as code: Terrarform

· Microsoft 365 components 

· Data integrations

· 3rd Party API integrations

· Configuring a securing Vnet with access control and monitoring

· Data Integration with 3rd party REST/SOAP API services and experience with Postman and Microsoft Graph API

· Cloud Service management

· IT Network management

· Virtualised Server Maintenance

· Windows Virtual Desktop

· IT Systems security awareness

· VMWare VCA (VMWare Certified Associate) Cloud or Virtualisation qualifications or CCNA (Cisco Certified Networking Associate) Routing & Switching

Azure Experience:

· Deployment automation and configuration Terraform & Azure CLI

· Extensive experience of the majority of the following native Azure Features:

· Azure Networking (VPN Gateway, vNet’s, Application Gateway, Peering, Azure Firewall etc)

· Azure Virtual Machines (VM Sizing, Availability, Encryption, Replication, Scale Sets & Migration)

· SQL (Azure SQL Database, SQL Managed Instance)

· Azure Storage Accounts

· Azure Backup

· Azure Availability Services

· Github

· Azure DevOps

· Azure Monitor

· Azure App Service

· Azure Web Apps

· Azure Site Recovery

· Azure File Replica

· Azure Automation

· Experience of the following would be beneficial

· Azure API Management

· Azure Service Bus

· Azure File Sync

· Key Management

Operating Systems:

Experience of Windows Server 2012 R2 to 2019 deployment and management. Scripting & Automation: Powershell, Azure CLI, Azure Powershell (other Azure Supported Shells) Security: Cloud Network and PaaS Security along with key security principles (Confidentiality, Integrity & Availability) Networking: Fundamentals of TCP/IP, networking interfaces and routing.

The following skills and qualifications would be beneficial: On-Premise Virtualisation: Sound understanding of VMWare as a source of virtual machines to migrate to Cloud service. Qualifications: AZ-103 – Microsoft Azure Administrator AZ-203 – Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure AZ-300 – Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies AZ-500 – Microsoft Azure Security Technologies

Contact – avtar.sandhu@lawesgroup.co.uk or 0203 727 2316