Azure Cloud Operations Engineer
Posted 1 day ago by Ivy Rock Partners
£575 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
South London, UK
Summary: The Azure Cloud Operations Engineer role involves leading the migration of core services to Microsoft Azure for a major UK public sector organization. The engineer will be responsible for designing and operating a secure, resilient, and cost-efficient cloud foundation, ensuring reliability and governance in service delivery. This position requires a strong focus on automation, incident management, and operational excellence within Azure environments. The role is hybrid, requiring one day a week onsite in South London.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define SLIs/SLOs and ensure GDS-aligned service reliability.
- Lead P1/P2 incident response and reduce MTTR with Azure Monitor + ITSM integration.
- Deliver Terraform/Bicep templates and PowerShell/Python runbooks for automation.
- Deploy/optimise Defender for Cloud & Sentinel; implement automated threat response.
- Enforce tagging, cost allocation, usage optimisation and governance policies.
- Build dashboards with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics and expert KQL.
- Govern Azure Update Management Centre across Azure + hybrid estates.
- Manage DR plans, replication and secure long-term data retention.
Key Skills:
- Deep Azure operational engineering experience.
- Strong automation, SRE, SecOps and FinOps capability.
- Expertise in Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, KQL, Defender, Sentinel.
- Advanced IaC skills (Terraform/Bicep) and Scripting (PowerShell/Python).
- Experience supporting complex or regulated enterprise/hybrid estates.
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104).
- Highly desirable: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400) and Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) or equivalent proven experience.
Salary (Rate): £575/day
City: South London
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Azure Cloud Operations Engineer
£500 - £575/day (Inside IR35)
6 month contract | Hybrid - 1 day/week onsite (South London)
A major UK public sector organisation is undertaking a critical migration of core services to Microsoft Azure and seeks an expert Interim Azure Cloud Operations Engineer to design and operate a secure, resilient and cost-efficient cloud foundation.
You'll build the platform that future digital and citizen-facing services will rely on-ensuring reliability, automation, governance and GDS-standard service delivery.
Key Focus Areas
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SRE & Reliability - Define SLIs/SLOs and ensure GDS-aligned service reliability.
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Incident Management - Lead P1/P2 response, reduce MTTR with Azure Monitor + ITSM integration.
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Automation & IaC - Deliver Terraform/Bicep templates and PowerShell/Python runbooks.
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SecOps - Deploy/optimise Defender for Cloud & Sentinel; implement automated threat response.
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FinOps - Enforce tagging, cost allocation, usage optimisation and governance policies.
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Monitoring & Analytics - Build dashboards with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics and expert KQL.
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Patch Management - Govern Azure Update Management Centre across Azure + hybrid estates.
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DR & Continuity - Manage DR plans, replication and secure long-term data retention.
Required Certifications
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Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
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Highly desirable:
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Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400)
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Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) (or equivalent proven experience)
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What You'll Bring
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Deep Azure operational engineering experience
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Strong automation, SRE, SecOps and FinOps capability
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Expertise in Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, KQL, Defender, Sentinel
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Advanced IaC skills (Terraform/Bicep) and Scripting (PowerShell/Python)
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Experience supporting complex or regulated enterprise/hybrid estates