Azure Cloud Infra Engineer

As an Azure Cloud Engineer, you are required to work in complex development and migration of application projects to Azure cloud. You will work with business analysts, application developers, architects and data stakeholders to understand the customer business cases and build Azure environment secured and scalable., * Understanding the requirement and bring out highly scalable Azure solution design and delivering End-to-End Implementation working with Azure architects

• Building and Implementation of environment setup in Azure cloud for applications, data team and DevOps.
• Understanding in the use of dockers, containers, and Kubernetes in development processes.
• Good co-ordination with Architects, App Developers, Data Engineers and POTs team for resolving infrastructure related issues.
• Implementation of Azure cloud resources with security features enabled.
• Ownership of documentation, tracking and prioritizing tasks and highlighting the foreseen blockers upfront
• Ensure the Azure cloud environment is implemented using best practices and as per architecture governance & compliance rules

• Ideally 10+ years of total experience with ideally 5+ years in Azure Cloud (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) in relation to data intensive solutions

• Cloud Services Experience o Designing solutions and implementation/migration of data intensive applications to Azure Cloud. o Design, configure and optimize data related service in Azure such as Databricks, Data Factory, Synapse, Data Lake, Database & Batch services. o Ability to design/implement/Troubleshoot end-to-end pipelines in Data platform for related projects. o Configuring App gateway, IaaS, AD, Firewall & Networking in the context of PaaS o Implement SQL & NO SQL solutions in Azure Data platform. o Experience is migrating data from On-prem to Cloud environment. o Exposure to Cybersecurity standards and implementation of cloud and resource controls to meet RR standards

• DevOps o Knowledge of Dev-Ops processes (including CI/CD) and Infrastructure as code is essential. o Expert working on IaC tools such as Terraform, Biceps, ARM, PowerShell to automate deployment with Azure Devops. o Design and implement CI/CD pipelines in Azure Devops using YAML pipelines and scripts with best practice. o Good understanding in Git, Repos, Artifacts, Branching strategy, Conflicts, Policies, Pipelines as applied to data solutions

Desirable o Knowledge in Kubernetes, Container technologies are added advantage.

Derby - £400 - £500 per day Contract Posted by: LA International Computer Consultants Ltd Posted: Friday, 7 August 2026, Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take a minimum 10 weeks. LA International is an award-winning partner of choice for many of the world's most influential companies and government organisations. Holding Enhanced Government Security Accreditation, we are recognised as the European market leader in the delivery of Security Cleared talent to organisations that demand the very highest levels of security, compliance and assurance.