Salary: £48,000 - 54,000 per year Requirements:
* Strong hands-on experience as a Cloud Engineer or Platform Engineer.
* Significant experience designing and operating Microsoft Azure environments.
* Proven experience migrating large-scale datasets (tens to hundreds of TB) into cloud platforms.
* Deep understanding of Azure storage services, particularly Blob Storage and ADLS Gen2.
* Strong experience with Azure networking, including private endpoints, VNET integration, and firewalling.
* Practical experience implementing RBAC, managed identities, and least-privilege access models.
* Experience using Terraform and/or Bicep for automated infrastructure provisioning.
* Ability to troubleshoot performance, throughput, and reliability issues during data transfer.
* Strong communication skills, able to work across technical and non-technical teams.
* Familiarity with Azure HPC, batch processing, or compute-heavy data platforms. (Desirable)
* Experience working in the NHS, public sector, or highly regulated environments. (Desirable)
* Experience with Azure DevOps for source control, CI/CD, and work tracking. (Desirable)
* Exposure to hybrid or on-prem to cloud data transfer patterns (e.g. Data Box, AzCopy, private links). (Desirable)
Responsibilities:
* Engineer and execute large-scale data transfer and migration of datasets into Azure.
* Design and implement Azure-based storage solutions (Blob, ADLS Gen2) appropriate for high-volume, high-throughput data.
* Configure and manage secure data ingestion patterns, including private networking, firewalls, and endpoint controls.
* Implement role-based access control (RBAC) and data access segregation aligned to governance and IG requirements.
* Build and maintain infrastructure as code for the platform using Terraform or Bicep.
* Support platform components required for downstream analytics and HPC-style workloads (without owning analytics design).
* Produce clear technical documentation covering architecture, data flows, and operational processes.
* Work within agile delivery methods and collaborate closely with architects, engineers, and delivery leads.
Technologies:
* Azure
* CI/CD
* Cloud
* DevOps
* Support
* RBAC
* Terraform
* ASP.NET
More:
We are a large organisation based in Cardiff, offering a contract role as an Azure Cloud Platform Engineer within a dynamic team. The position is hybrid, requiring one day per week on-site. We provide competitive daily rates between £400 to £450, inside IR35, for a duration of 3 months, focused on delivering a greenfield environment to host multi-terabytes of data.
last updated 3 week of 2026