Azure Cloud engineer

Azure Cloud Engineer 3 Month Contract Fully remote OutsideIR35Re-architect an Azure environment into a secure, production-grade, enterprise-ready platform.Core Responsibilities:

• Redesign Azure architecture for scale, reliability, and security.
• Implement HA, failover, DR, and BCP.
• Harden security: Key Vault, Managed Identities, RBAC, Private Endpoints, NSGs, WAF, DDoS.
• Set up audit logging, monitoring, alerting, and incident response (Azure Monitor, App Insights, Log Analytics).
• Produce architecture docs + operational runbooks.
• Refactor/extend IaC (Terraform).
• Ensure reproducible environments and automated deployments across dev ? staging ? prod.

Required Experience

• 5+ years cloud engineering, incl. 2+ years at enterprise scale.
• Proven track record taking MVP ? production.
• Strong Azure expertise (App Services, AKS, Functions, API Management, Azure SQL).
• Strong Terraform + automation (Python/Bash/PowerShell).
• Experience with enterprise security, SLAs, SOC2/ISO27001 expectations.
• Experience supporting enterprise customer technical/security reviews.
• B2B SaaS scaling experience.

Success Criteria

• Documented production-grade Azure architecture.
• 99.9% uptime readiness.
• Full monitoring + alerting.
• Automated CI/CD.
• Enterprise-audit-ready security posture.
• Fully reproducible IaC.

Unfortunately no sponsorship is offered.Azure Cloud Engineer 3 Month Contract Fully remote OutsideIR35