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# Cloud Engineer - Azure Virtual Desktop

- **Company:** Proactive.IT Appointments Ltd.
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Contract:** Contract
- **Skills:** Active Directory, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Engineering, Data as a Services, Identity and Access Management, Virtual Desktops, OAuth, OpenID, Windows PowerShell, Role-Based Access Control, Azure Active Directory, Microsoft InTune, Deployment Automation, Bicep, Terraform, Azure Resource Manager
- **Published:** September 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/apply/ats-redirect/?id=2961511758-2

## About the Role

* Strong technical experience with Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD/Azure VD)
 * Sound communication skills - both technically and verbally. You must be able to effectively talk to both technical and non-technical people and be clear and concise with how your communication is delivered - both written and verbal

 * Design, deploy, and manage enterprise VDI/DaaS platforms at scale, including session host provisioning, image life cycle management, and end-to-end deployment automation
 * Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code pipelines (Bicep/ARM/Terraform) and PowerShell automation frameworks to reduce manual effort and eliminate configuration drift
 * Manage hybrid identity environments across on-premises Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID, including Entra Connect Sync, conditional access policies, and MFA configuration
 * Administer enterprise app registrations, OAuth 2.0/OIDC authentication flows, service principals, and managed identities for secure application and service-to-service authentication
 * Implement and maintain RBAC, Privileged Identity Management (PIM), and least-privilege access governance across Azure resources and directory services
 * Deploy and manage MDM/MAM platforms (Microsoft Intune) including compliance policies, configuration profiles, and automated remediation workflows

## Description

Our client is urgently looking for an experienced Cloud Engineer, with strong experience around Azure Virtual Desktop to join their team on a contract basis, initially for 3 months with a view to extend.


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