Cloud Engineer - Azure (3 month contract)

We are seeking an experienced Cloud Engineer specialised in Azure to join our team on a 3-month contract basis. We've proven our concept and now need to scale. You'll take our existing MVP Azure infrastructure and re-architect it into a production-grade platform capable of meeting enterprise security requirements, SLA commitments, and the scrutiny of enterprise customer audits., Architecture & Infrastructure

• Redesign Azure architecture for medium enterprise scale, reliability, and security

• Design and deploy high-availability, fault-tolerant infrastructure with appropriate redundancy

• Establish disaster recovery and business continuity procedures

• Define and document the target architecture for long-term team ownership

• Harden security posture to meet medium enterprise customer requirements

• Implement Azure security best practices (Key Vault, Managed Identities, RBAC, Private Endpoints)

• Configure network security groups, WAF, and DDoS protection

• Establish audit logging and compliance reporting

• Design with platform readiness in mind for SOC2

• Implement monitoring, alerting, and incident response using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, and Log Analytics

• Establish backup, recovery, and business continuity procedures

• Document infrastructure architecture and operational runbooks

• Extend and refactor the existing IaC using Terraform (strongly preferred)

• Ensure environments are fully reproducible and provisioning is automated

• Establish environment promotion processes across development, staging, and production

Do you have experience in Terraform?, * 5+ years Cloud Engineering experience with at least 2 years at enterprise scale

• Proven track record of taking platforms from MVP to production-grade enterprise readiness

• Deep Azure expertise across compute, networking, storage, and security services

• Expert-level Azure knowledge (App Services, AKS, Functions, API Management, Azure SQL)

• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform strongly preferred)

• Scripting and automation (Python, Bash, PowerShell)

• Understanding of enterprise security requirements and compliance frameworks

• Experience with SLA design and incident management

• Familiarity with SOC2, ISO27001, or similar compliance requirements

• Experience supporting enterprise customer technical validation and procurement reviews

• Scaled at least one B2B SaaS platform to enterprise customers

• Understands what enterprise procurement and security teams look for in an infrastructure audit