Principal Cloud Engineer - Azure
Posted 1 week ago by 1770274350
£750 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
London
Summary: The Principal Cloud Engineer (Azure) role involves leading the design and delivery of Azure infrastructure for a leading Specialty Insurer. This senior technical position requires deep expertise in Azure infrastructure and focuses on creating secure and scalable environments for various workloads. The role is hybrid, requiring three days a week on-site in London, and emphasizes collaboration across multiple teams to ensure best practices in cloud engineering.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, deliver, & support Azure infrastructure for a broad variety of deployments including:
- Web applications
- Containerised workloads
- PaaS services
- 3rd-party & vendor-hosted applications
- Monolithic IaaS applications
- Assess incoming technical requests & define the most appropriate Azure implementation approach for each use case.
- Build & maintain secure, scalable, resilient Azure environments aligned to cloud best practice & enterprise landing zone standards.
- Engineer infrastructure using Terraform, creating reusable modules & automation patterns.
- Use Azure DevOps for repositories, branching, pipelines, & release orchestration.
- Support engineering teams with environment setup, deployment approaches, cloud adoption, & design interpretation.
- Collaborate closely with architecture & security teams to ensure alignment with organisational standards.
- Provide senior technical leadership & help uplift cloud engineering capability across the team.
Key Skills:
- Deep hands-on Azure infrastructure engineering across networking, identity, compute, storage, security, & governance.
- Broad experience deploying & supporting diverse workload types (PaaS, containers, 3rd-party apps, monolithic IaaS, web applications, etc.).
- Ability to understand application requirements from an infrastructure perspective & design the right Azure platform components to support them.
- Expert Terraform experience (module development, IaC patterns, automation).
- Practical experience with Azure DevOps pipelines & repos.
- Excellent communication, architectural thinking, & stakeholder engagement skills.
- Proven experience operating at a senior or principal engineering level.
- Experience with on-prem to cloud migration (beneficial but not required).
- Azure certifications (AZ-305, AZ-104, AZ-700, AZ-400).
- Broader architecture frameworks such as TOGAF.
Salary (Rate): £750 per day
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Principal Cloud Engineer (Azure) - Contract - Inside IR35
A leading Speciality Insurer are embarking on their cloud journey & seeking a Principal Cloud Engineer (Azure) to join their cloud platform function & act as a senior technical authority for Azure infrastructure & platform engineering. This role is infrastructure?led - focused on designing & delivering the Azure environments that support a wide range of workloads across the business.
You will work across application, platform, & architecture teams to ensure Azure foundations, patterns, & environments are secure, scalable, & ready to host anything from modern PaaS solutions to legacy IaaS workloads. This is not an application developer role; it is a senior engineering position requiring deep Azure infrastructure expertise with the ability to support many different solution types.
This role will be hybrid & requiore 3 days per week on-site in London.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, deliver, & support Azure infrastructure for a broad variety of deployments including:
- Web applications
- Containerised workloads
- PaaS services
- 3rd?party & vendor?hosted applications
- Monolithic IaaS applications
- Assess incoming technical requests & define the most appropriate Azure implementation approach for each use case.
- Build & maintain secure, scalable, resilient Azure environments aligned to cloud best practice & enterprise landing zone standards.
- Engineer infrastructure using Terraform, creating reusable modules & automation patterns.
- Use Azure DevOps for repositories, branching, pipelines, & release orchestration.
- Support engineering teams with environment setup, deployment approaches, cloud adoption, & design interpretation.
- Collaborate closely with architecture & security teams to ensure alignment with organisational standards.
- Provide senior technical leadership & help uplift cloud engineering capability across the team.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Deep hands?on Azure infrastructure engineering across networking, identity, compute, storage, security, & governance.
- Broad experience deploying & supporting diverse workload types (PaaS, containers, 3rd?party apps, monolithic IaaS, web applications, etc.).
- Ability to understand application requirements from an infrastructure perspective & design the right Azure platform components to support them.
- Expert Terraform experience (module development, IaC patterns, automation).
- Practical experience with Azure DevOps pipelines & repos.
- Excellent communication, architectural thinking, & stakeholder engagement skills.
- Proven experience operating at a senior or principal engineering level.
- Experience with on?prem to cloud migration (beneficial but not required).
- Azure certifications (AZ?305, AZ?104, AZ?700, AZ?400).
- Broader architecture frameworks such as TOGAF.
If you have the relevant experience & knowledge, please contact me for an immediate review.
