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Requirements
Must:
- Strong hands-on experience as a Cloud Engineer or Platform Engineer.
- Significant experience designing and operating Microsoft Azure environments.
- Proven experience migrating large-scale datasets (tens to hundreds of TB) into cloud platforms.
- Deep understanding of Azure storage services, particularly Blob Storage and ADLS Gen2.
- Strong experience with Azure networking, including private endpoints, VNET integration, and firewalling.
- Practical experience implementing RBAC, managed identities, and least-privilege access models.
- Experience using Terraform and/or Bicep for automated infrastructure provisioning.
- Ability to troubleshoot performance, throughput, and reliability issues during data transfer.
- Strong communication skills, able to work across technical and non-technical teams.
- Familiarity with Azure HPC, batch processing, or compute-heavy data platforms. (Desirable)
- Experience working in the NHS, public sector, or highly regulated environments. (Desirable)
- Experience with Azure DevOps for source control, CI/CD, and work tracking. (Desirable)
- Exposure to hybrid or on-prem to cloud data transfer patterns (e.g. Data Box, AzCopy, private links). (Desirable)
Responsibilities
- Engineer and execute large-scale data transfer and migration of datasets into Azure.
- Design and implement Azure-based storage solutions (Blob, ADLS Gen2) appropriate for high-volume, high-throughput data.
- Configure and manage secure data ingestion patterns, including private networking, firewalls, and endpoint controls.
- Implement role-based access control (RBAC) and data access segregation aligned to governance and IG requirements.
- Build and maintain infrastructure as code for the platform using Terraform or Bicep.
- Support platform components required for downstream analytics and HPC-style workloads (without owning analytics design).
- Produce clear technical documentation covering architecture, data flows, and operational processes.
- Work within agile delivery methods and collaborate closely with architects, engineers, and delivery leads.
Description
We are a large organisation based in Cardiff, offering a contract role as an Azure Cloud Platform Engineer within a dynamic team. The position is hybrid, requiring one day per week on-site. We provide competitive daily rates between £400 to £450, inside IR35, for a duration of 3 months, focused on delivering a greenfield environment to host multi-terabytes of data.
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