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# Datacentre & Cloud Engineer

- **Company:** Oliver James associates
- **Location:** Birmingham, UK
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** £58,306.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Active Directory, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Engineering, Data Centers, Monitoring of Systems, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Identity and Access Management, Lightweight Directory Access Protocols (LDAP), NetApp Applications, Windows PowerShell, Azure Active Directory, Pure Storage, Bicep, Hardware Infrastructure, Terraform, Azure Resource Manager, Cisco, Vmware
- **Published:** September 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5895667335

## About the Role

* Current Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) certification.
 * At least three years' experience in a similar enterprise cloud or infrastructure engineering role.
 * Hands-on experience deploying and managing Azure resources, including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
 * Experience deploying and managing virtualised infrastructure, including VMware.
 * Practical use of Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, PowerShell or similar automation tools.
 * Experience with identity and access management technologies such as Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID/Azure AD and LDAP.
 * Strong third-line troubleshooting skills and experience working with business-critical systems under formal change control.
 * Clear examples of projects you have led, showing your personal contribution to both solution design and implementation.
 * Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences.

Experience with NetApp, Pure Storage or Cisco UCS, or an AZ-400 certification, would be advantageous.

## Description

We are recruiting a Datacentre & Cloud Engineer to support an international law firm's cloud, datacentre and office infrastructure. This is a hands-on engineering role with opportunities to take ownership of projects from technical design through implementation, alongside responsibility for complex third-line support.

The role can be based in Birmingham, London, Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow or Edinburgh and offers a salary of £65,000-£70,000.

What you'll do

 * Design, deploy, manage and optimise Microsoft Azure and on-premise infrastructure.
 * Lead technical project work, contributing to solution design and carrying the implementation through to delivery.
 * Use Infrastructure as Code and automation to provision and manage infrastructure.
 * Investigate and resolve complex third-line infrastructure incidents.
 * Improve availability, security, performance and cost efficiency across the environment.
 * Support identity and access management, infrastructure monitoring and formal change-control processes.
 * Work with developers, network engineers and other teams, explaining technical decisions clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
 * Maintain technical documentation and support improvements to cloud-based monitoring and systems-management tools.


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