Azure Cloud Platform Engineer – Outside IR35

Cloud Platform Engineer IAC / Landing Zones, Policies and RBAC Model
3 months initially – Outside IR35 – Working remotely

About the Role
The project will focus on implementing and coding the LZ, policies and RBAC model. YOU MUST HAVE DONE THIS BEFORE

• Do you live and breathe IAC?
• Do you have strong DevOps experience and also Cloud Operations experience?
• For this role, you will be responsible for developing, implementing, maintaining and troubleshooting operational issues in relation to the Cloud Platform service.
• With a focus on Azure the role is to ensure that cloud-based systems are running efficiently and effectively, meeting our performance, security, and reliability goals.
• This is a fantastic opportunity for the right candidate to develop their IT career by joining a fast-paced business that is constantly changing.
• You will assist with adoption of cloud services to assist with business agility.
• You will be comfortable working as part of a wider technology team, equally as comfortable communicating with all stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Developing the cloud platform in Azure via IaC
• Design and implement effective performance and availability monitoring dashboards.
• Creating and maintaining documentation to support processes within our landscape with a shift left approach.
• Working closely with Service, development and Architecture to ensure solutions follow best practice, supportable, and compliant within defined policies.
• Identify and drive improvement via automation across the platform.
• Champion best practice within the Cloud platforms.
• Working in an Agile Team

Your background

As a proven Development and Operational support (DevOps) specialist with a passion for cloud,

This role requires a breadth of skills and knowledge, including:

• Performing CI/CD with the use of Azure DevOps(ADO) Tooling
• Enterprise level experience providing support of cloud technology infrastructure.
• Experience of using Azure Public cloud offerings across PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS, and how to provision them.
• Modelling Identity and Access Management (IAM) controls via RBAC
• IT service management principles (ITIL practises)
• Working with Service Stakeholders to improve Governance insight.
• Identification of an required change and ability to communicate with delivery leads to ensure appropriate prioritisation.
• Azure best practices in the delivery of landing zones (CAF)
• Azure best practices in the delivery of Azure Network connectivity
• Technology support experience including several from:
  • Writing TerraformIaC modules for Azure
  • Azure Network configuration, NSG’s, ASG’s, Azure Firewalls
  • Monitoring tool integration via VM, network and App insights
  • Service availability along with Disaster recovery in cloud
  • Message bus, file transfer, API
  • Managing Azure Firewall Rules / NSG / ASG
  • Azure AD role delegation for platform resources (Storage Accounts)
  • Knowledge of KQL queries and how to use them for platform analytics
  • ITSM integration from Azure platform
  • Working with Azure SIEM capability tools, i.e. Azure Sentinel

Nice to have desirable skills

• Public cloud technology infrastructure operational support in a large retail / ecommerce enterprise
• Knowledge of Kusto Queries (KQL) to define highly customised monitoring and alerting rules.
• Previous experience of creating and deploying cloud solutions as Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
• Experience of a DevOps culture delivering product via Agile/Scrum framework