Cloud Engineer - Azure

Location: Bristol, hybrid, with 2 days a week on site

Day rate: £500–£575 per day, outside IR35

Company

hirify.global is recruiting for a 6-month contract role supporting an energy and renewables modernisation programme, with a strong chance of extension.

What you will do

• Help migrate core business systems from on-premise data centres to Azure.
• Design, build and maintain Azure landing zones, networking and identity infrastructure.
• Build and manage infrastructure as code with Terraform and Azure DevOps pipelines.
• Work with security teams on policies, monitoring and access controls aligned with best practice.
• Support the hybrid environment during migration, including VPN, ExpressRoute and DNS, and troubleshoot performance, availability and cost issues.
• Create documentation and runbooks and coordinate with project managers, architects and application owners to keep migration milestones on track.

Requirements

• 3+ years of hands-on Azure experience in an enterprise environment.
• Strong Terraform skills.
• Solid networking knowledge, including VNets, NSGs, ExpressRoute, DNS and firewalls.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Good understanding of Entra ID, RBAC and cloud security principles.
• Scripting experience with PowerShell or Python.

Nice to have

• AZ-104 or AZ-305 certification.
• Experience with Bicep or ARM.

Culture & Benefits

• 6-month contract with a strong chance of extension.
• Hybrid working arrangement with 2 days per week on site in Bristol.
• Contract is outside IR35.