Job title: Azure Cloud Engineer
Rate: £350 375 per day - Outside IR35 / Ltd Company
Duration: 3 months initially
Location: Northwich, Cheshire, but mostly remote working / WFH
Start date: ASAP
Overview
We are seeking an experienced Azure Cloud Engineer to support an infrastructure transformation programme.
This is a hands on engineering role, covering discovery, planning, migration, testing, documentation, and BAU handover activities.
Key Responsibilities
- Support migration of on premise workloads into Azure
- Execute discovery, assessment, planning, and migration activities
- Deliver test and production migrations, including rollback planning
- Support post migration validation and issue resolution
- Assist with Azure landing zones, networking, identity, security, and infrastructure configuration
- Support Azure domain controller and core identity infrastructure initiatives
- Work within agreed architecture, governance and security standards
- Produce migration documentation, runbooks, test evidence, and as built records
- Support operational handover and knowledge transfer to internal teams and support partners
- Identify and escalate risks, issues, and dependencies.
Essential Experience
- Microsoft Azure infrastructure engineering
- Azure server migrations using Azure Migrate or similar tools
- Windows Server administration and migration
- Active Directory, DNS, and identity services
- Azure networking (VNets, routing, NSGs, connectivity)
- Discovery, dependency mapping, and migration readiness assessments
- Migration planning, testing, execution, and rollback activities
- Technical documentation and operational handover
- Experience working within project or programme environments
Desirable Experience
- Disaster Recovery platforms, particularly Rubrik
- Azure governance, policy, security, and monitoring
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, ARM)
- Experience of working with global IT teams