Cloud Infrastructure & Network Engineer - Azure Hybrid & Edge

Role Purpose

The Intelligent Substation programme operates across the boundary between operational technology, edge computing and Azure cloud services.

Its solutions connect distributed substation environments to centrally managed cloud platforms, enabling secure data acquisition, monitoring, analytics and application services.

Required Skills and Experience

• 10+ years' experience in network, cloud infrastructure or hybrid-platform engineering.
• Deep practical knowledge of IP Networking, subnetting, routing, VLANs, NAT, DNS, Firewalls, proxies and network segmentation.
• Advanced packet-capture and protocol-analysis skills, including the ability to interpret PCAP files and diagnose issues across multiple network layers.
• Strong hands-on experience with Wireshark, tcpdump, tcpreplay or comparable network diagnostic tools.
• Significant experience designing and operating Azure networking, including Virtual Network, ExpressRoute, VPN Gateway, Azure Firewall and Private Link.
• Strong experience with Azure Local and Azure Arc in distributed or hybrid environments.
• Experience deploying or supporting Arc-enabled Kubernetes and AKS running on customer-managed infrastructure.
• Good understanding of Kubernetes networking, ingress, service discovery, load balancing, certificates and container-to-container communication.
• Experience with Entra ID, managed identities, role-based access control, certificate services and public key infrastructure.
• Strong Linux administration and Bash Scripting skills, together with PowerShell experience.
• Experience implementing infrastructure as code using Terraform or an equivalent technology.
• Practical knowledge of cloud and infrastructure monitoring, logging, alerting and incident management.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex problems involving multiple suppliers, platforms, network zones and security boundaries.