Senior Cloud Engineer
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Job Summary
Job Description
Senior Cloud Engineer
Permanent
Home Based
Salary: 70000 - 75000 ( benefits)
Skills: Azure Terraform Windows Server SC Clearance
Are you a seasoned infrastructure professional with deep technical skills across cloud and on-prem environments Join a leading UK IT consultancy delivering complex infrastructure support and solutions for central government clients.
We are looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer to play a hands-on role supporting internal customer and developer-facing systems across private public and hybrid cloud environments. Youll take ownership of escalated incidents help resolve major issues and work closely with both project and support teams to maintain high availability and integrity of critical services.
What Youll Be Doing
- Diagnosing and resolving complex infrastructure incidents escalated from the Service Desk
- Collaborating with Problem Managers to investigate and permanently resolve recurring issues
- Ensuring requests for support are handled within agreed SLAs
- Delivering expert hands-on support across a range of hosting environments from traditional on-premise infrastructure to Microsoft Azure
- Creating and maintaining support documentation including knowledge base articles
- Supporting project handovers and ensuring new solutions are support-ready
- Helping maintain secure resilient and well-documented systems across enterprise-scale environments
- Assisting in physical infrastructure tasks when required (e.g. hardware swaps cabling)
Technical Skills Required
- Microsoft Azure: Strong experience across IaaS PaaS and Entra ID (Azure AD)
- Windows Server: 2012 R2 through to 2022 including core services (DNS DHCP IIS RDS DFS GPO)
- Active Directory: Complex environments with multiple forests/domains
- Office 365: Tenant setup and configuration to best practice
- Virtualisation: VMware Hyper-V
- Storage & Resilience: Dell/HP SANs clustering geographically redundant setups
- Monitoring & Backup: Microsoft System Center (SCOM) Veeam DPM Commvault
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform Bicep
- Firewall Basics: Fortigate Sophos
- Automation: PowerShell scripting for task automation
- Security & Compliance: Familiarity with common standards and frameworks
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- APIs
- C/C++
- Computer Graphics
- Go
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- AWS
- Library Services
- Assembly
- GraphQL
- High Voltage
