Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (Azure & Data Centre Migration)

Duration : 6 months

Location : Sunderland, 3 days per week onsite

Basis : Outside IR35

Rate : DOE

The Cloud Infrastructure Engineer will join a dynamic team at a time of major modernisation and transformation, with responsibility for providing hands‑on technical support to drive the cloud and data centre migration activities.

This will include:

• Supporting migration of datacentre-hosted workloads into Azure, assisting with planning, build, testing and production cutover activities
• Support landing zone, networking and infrastructure configuration
• Assist with application and server migration activities
• Support supplier engagement and technical validation activities.
• Review and remediation of high-priority vulnerabilities identified through pen testing activity
• Implement remediation activities across server and infrastructure platforms
• Validate controls through testing and evidence collection

The successful Cloud Infrastructure Engineer will have the following skills:

• Azure Cloud (IaaS/PaaS, networking, identity, monitoring).
• Infrastructure-as-Code: Terraform, ARM, PowerShell automation.
• Windows Server, Active Directory/Entra ID, Group Policy.
• Backup and restore Solutions e.g. Veeam, CommVault.
• SQL Server, Azure SQL, backups, HA/DR.
• Monitoring: Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, SolarWinds.

The Cloud Infrastructure Engineer will initially join for a period of 6 months to actively participate in the cloud and data centre migration activity, and there is the possibility of extension.

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (Azure Migration, Data Centre Migration)