Salary: £50,000 - 90,000 per year Requirements: Proven track record of building foundational cloud capabilities in a large, complex enterprise environment. Experience designing and implementing secure, scalable cloud patterns and guardrails. Ability to work within structured governance frameworks and contribute to platform engineering standards. Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills (desirable). Ability to work collaboratively across technology, governance, risk, compliance, and finance teams (desirable). Strong problem-solving skills with a pragmatic, delivery-focused approach (desirable). High attention to detail and a strong sense of accountability (desirable). Responsibilities: Contribute to the design of a hybrid Azure/on-premise architecture ensuring secure, compliant, and high-performing data flows. Support creation of a cloud foundation that will extend beyond data workloads into application hosting. Work closely with cloud engineers, architecture, and security teams to apply rigorous standards for identity, access management, networking, encryption, and monitoring. Work closely with Data Architects to refine designs, challenge assumptions, and contribute engineering insights to architectural decisions. Collaborate with wider technology teams, business stakeholders, and programme partners to ensure solutions meet operational needs. Implement engineering practices that ensure high data quality, including validation, monitoring, reconciliation, and automated testing. Embed secure by design, including encryption, access control, secure data movement, and compliance with regulatory requirements. Build resilient, high-performing cloud platforms capable of supporting financial reporting workloads. Develop and maintain reusable engineering patterns, components, and frameworks. Monitor platform performance, troubleshoot issues, and optimise data processes for efficiency and reliability. Technologies: Azure Cloud Support Security DevOps More: We are a leading organisation in the defence and security sector seeking a Cloud Engineer to join our team in Harlow, Essex, on a hybrid working basis. This permanent role is full-time at 37 hours per week, requiring Security Clearance (SC) eligibility. We offer a competitive salary, the opportunity to work on a variety of interesting and challenging projects, professional development and training opportunities, and a supportive and collaborative work environment with an attractive employee benefits package. last updated 14 week of 2026