Infrastructure Cloud Specialist

Infrastructure Cloud Specialist Reports to: Head of Infrastructure and Cyber Security Direct Reports: N/A Working Arrangements: Full Time, Monday to Friday with occasional weekend work Contract 6 Months Overall Objective of Role: Thomas Miller is looking to recruit an experienced/seasoned Infrastructure Cloud engineer with specific skills and experience managing and developing an Azure Cloud estate with a specific focus on Infrastructure as Code. This role will blur the lines between conventional Infrastructure operations (BAU) and Infrastructure as code Azure Devops\CICD. The successful candidate will be able to manage the Azure estate and provide guidance and technical direction to Application development team on enabled the Azure Devops. This role will also be required to upskill the existing team so some experience of creating process guides and mentoring is essential. PaaS\IaaS Management • Managing (creating, modifying, destroying) Infrastructure resources using Terraform • Updating service principal secrets in TT, UKPI and Data Platform infra\integration services key vaults • Assisting Wintel team with Win10\11 Azure VMs deployment configuration and issues • Regular Azure Data Factory (ADF) Self Hosted Integration Runtime (SHIR) updates • Troubleshooting connectivity, performance and other infra related issues in ADF data pipelines • Creating and maintaining linked services in ADF • Managing access and capacity on Azure SQL databases • Managing Azure Databricks workspaces and associated infrastructure Azure DevOps\CICD Maintaining the Azure DevOps pipeline agents (Docker based) running within Azure container instances (ACI) infrastructure Maintaining YAML based pipelines in ADO and supporting application development teams with the pipeline related queries Azure Platform Management Network management - IP address provisioning, subnets, vNet peering, user defined routing (UDR), Network Security Groups (NSG) Hub-Spoke topology, ExpressRoute, Private Link, Private Endpoints, Service Endpoints Virtual Machine, NIC, Disk management, VM availability sets, VM backup and recovery Storage account management, backup and recovery Configuring different types of alerts in Azure Monitor Role Based Access Management (RBAC) Cloud Governance Management of subscriptions, resource groups, management groups Cost management, resource tags, reporting, managing reservations Billing account management Vulnerability management Skills Required Azure Infrastructure Services (Networking, Compute, Storage), Terraform, PowerShell, Azure CLI, Azure Entra ID App registrations, Azure Monitor (Alerts, Metrics, Logs), Key vaults, Recovery Services Vault Git, Docker, Bash, Azure Container Instances, Azure Container Registry, YAML, ADO variable groups, Azure SQL Database Azure Logic Apps, Azure Function Apps, Azure API Management, Service Bus, App Service Plan, Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, App Insights, Conditional Access policies Cloud governance skills - Azure Policy, Cost Management, Defender for Cloud Personal Attributes: • Service orientated approach with excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills. • Able to interpret a IAC concept and support project delivery for all aspects of Cloud and Infrastructure • Able to explain complex matters succinctly. • Can adapt to new concepts and understand vendor systems and architecture. • Able to present ideas in business and user-friendly language. • Highly self-motivated and able to use own initiative. • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. • Able to prioritise and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment. • Be able to work to tight deadlines. • Good customer service orientation. • Experience working cross teams in a collaborative environment as well as autonomously. • Demonstrate a creative use of technology to deliver innovative solutions. • Demonstrate good attention to detail.