Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Overview

As Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at McLaren Automotive, you design, build, and operate Azure and hybrid-cloud platforms to enable fast, secure delivery of high-performance engineering and manufacturing workloads. You’ll implement governance, FinOps, and automation to reduce risk and cost while maintaining production resilience. You collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate complex cloud requirements into scalable, auditable solutions. This role offers hands-on cloud engineering with a strong focus on security and operational excellence, shaping how McLaren leverages the cloud to accelerate innovation.

Pay / Benefits

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Enhanced pension scheme
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Private medical insurance and health cash plan
• Life assurance
• Sabbatical opportunity after 2 years service

• Design, build, automate, and run Azure landing zones, virtual networks, AVD/VDI hosts, and platform services using IaC with secure-by-default principles
• Manage Entra ID, Microsoft 365 and hybrid identity (RBAC, PIM, Conditional Access, group management, privileged account governance) to minimize attack surface
• Own Azure DevOps and GitHub pipelines, repositories, automation, and certificate provisioning to ensure repeatable, auditable changes
• Deliver and govern platform changes via the Technical CAB with designs, risk assessments, and operational docs
• Integrate and operate cloud security tooling, act on posture and vulnerability findings to uphold security baseline
• Drive FinOps and cost discipline across the cloud estate, optimize workloads and improve spend visibility
• Provide third-line troubleshooting, hand over BAU tasks to NTT, and author SOPs and run-books to reduce key-person dependency

• Strong hands-on Azure engineering across compute, networking, storage, AVD, and platform services
• Ent ra ID / Microsoft 365 administration, hybrid identity, RBAC, PIM, Conditional Access
• Infrastructure-as-Code and automation (Azure DevOps, PowerShell, Bicep/Terraform, CI/CD pipelines)
• Cloud security tooling, vulnerability remediation, and secure configuration
• Exposure to containers/Kubernetes and multi-cloud (AWS/GCP) is an advantage
• Automation-first mindset focused on protecting production and challenging status quo
• Collaborative, clear communicator with ability to explain cloud risk to diverse stakeholders
• Curious, delivery-focused, and comfortable in a fast-changing environment

• Collaborative
• Clear communicator
• Curious
• Azure compute, networking, and storage
• AVD/VDI platforms
• Identity and access management (Entra ID, Microsoft 365)