Contract - Cloud Engineer

What will be doing? 

Within our Delivery Squads, you will be paired with seasoned Azure Engineers like yourself, Azure Architects, Technical PMs, and a lead Technical Consultant.  We operate in an Agile environment, using Azure DevOps, Terraform, Azure Migrate, and align to the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and Well Architected Framework.  

You will have the opportunity to work with a broad range of enterprise scale customers and will work as a key member of our project delivery team, where you will support the customers’ ability to build and deploy to cloud services and release software. 

• You will work well within a team and promote a DevOps culture in all that you do  
• Support the implementation of DevOps processes and tooling 
• Automate the configuration and management of cloud workloads in Azure 
• Be entrepreneurial and offer contribution to technical solutions, whilst work in a cross-collaborative team environment. 
• Support automated build, configuration, test and deployments of applications to cloud agnostic platforms. 
• Utilize IaC to achieve the configuration and deployment of Azure environment and workloads 

What experience do I need? 

• Previous experience of working within Azure DevOps (or equivalent CI/CD tooling) 
• Experience in deploying CI/ CD pipelines 
• Experiencing building and configuring cloud services using Infrastructure as Code 
• Knowledge of Terraform 
• Setting up landing zones  
• Previous experience building and configuring Azure IaaS and PaaS service  
• Strong knowledge of core Azure infrastructure components such as Networking and Storage, Security capabilities such as KeyVault, and App hosting options such as VMs, App Services and AKS.  

What would be desirable? 

• One or more Azure certifications (AZ-103/4, AZ-400, AZ-500, AZ-303/4/5, AZ-700) 
• Terraform Associate certification (HashiCorp)  
• Experience delivering cloud migrations (e.g – Data Centre to Azure migrations) 
• Knowledge of Networking and Firewalls 

Contract rate: £450 per day

Duration: 3 months

Location: UK home based / Manchester

Outside IR35

Please send your CV to working@shapingcloud.com and a member of our Talent team will be in touch.