Azure / AWS Cloud Project Delivery Engineer – SC Cleared

Whitehall Resources require an Azure / AWS Cloud Project Delivery Engineer – SC Cleared to work with a key client on a 6-month initial contract.

*Candidates are required to hold enhanced active SC clearance.

*Inside IR35.

*This role will involve 90% on site work in London.

An experienced Azure and AWS Cloud Project Delivery Engineer responsible for the successful delivery of secure cloud infrastructure, platform, and application hosting solutions within enterprise and regulated environments. Working across project, engineering, security, and operational teams, the role combines deep technical expertise with strong stakeholder management skills to deliver cloud transformation, migration, and modernisation initiatives. The engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, automating, and transitioning secure cloud services while working in Agile delivery teams and collaborating closely with clients, suppliers, vendors, and internal stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver secure Azure and AWS cloud hosting solutions from design through to operational handover.
• Work within Agile project teams, participating in sprint planning, delivery, reviews, and continuous improvement activities.
• Engage effectively with customer stakeholders, project managers, architects, security teams, third-party suppliers, and service delivery teams.
• Design and implement secure cloud networking architectures, including hub-and-spoke and hybrid connectivity patterns.
• Deploy and manage cloud-native, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and containerised workloads.
• Implement cloud identity, authentication, and authorisation solutions while ensuring appropriate separation of management and data plane access for sensitive environments.
• Support application deployment and operational readiness activities with a strong understanding of underlying infrastructure components.
• Deliver monitoring, alerting, observability, and operational insights using enterprise monitoring platforms.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation solutions, and CI/CD pipelines to enable repeatable and secure deployments.
• Provide technical leadership, mentor team members, and contribute to knowledge sharing across the wider delivery organisation.

Technical Experience

Cloud Platforms

Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Secure cloud hosting and regulated environments

Networking & Infrastructure

Hub-and-spoke architectures

Virtual networking, routing, segmentation, and hybrid connectivity

Strong infrastructure and networking background

Compute & Hosting

Azure Virtual Machines (VMs)

Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)

AWS EC2

Container platforms including AKS, EKS, and Kubernetes

Identity & Security

Microsoft Entra ID

AWS Identity Center

Okta

ManageEngine and other enterprise identity solutions

Privileged access management and secure access controls

Governance and guardrails protecting management and data planes

Observability & Operations

Azure Monitor

Splunk

Logging, monitoring, alerting, and operational dashboards

Automation & DevOps

Terraform

Azure DevOps

GitLab

Python

CI/CD pipeline design and implementation

Infrastructure as Code and deployment automation

Personal Attributes

Strong team player with a collaborative approach to delivery.

Comfortable working across multidisciplinary engineering, project, and operational teams.

Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Proactive in sharing knowledge, mentoring colleagues, and promoting engineering best practices.

Able to balance strategic objectives with hands-on technical delivery in complex cloud environments.

All of our opportunities require that applicants are eligible to work in the specified country/location, unless otherwise stated in the job description.

Whitehall Resources are an equal opportunities employer who value a diverse and inclusive working environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.