Infrastructure Engineer

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer - Azure

4 days a week in the office in London

Base salary of 75 – 100K GBP

We are working with an Investment Manager in London who are seeking an experienced Cloud Infrastructure Engineer.

The role will be focused on maintaining and enhancing the firm’s current Azure Cloud infrastructure as well as completing our migration to our Azure Cloud solution. The individual will be dealing with a wide range of issues, from complex cloud infrastructure problems and project work to complementing network and firewall provisioning.

Duties:

• Maintain and monitor a highly available and complex Azure Cloud infrastructure
• Perform daily system monitoring
• Repair and recover from server and software failures
• Identify issues proactively and suggest solutions
• Provide some end user support including VIP support
• Manage software and update deployments
• Improve processes with use of automation tools
• Do occasional out of hours and weekend work
• Be back-up support for firewall and network issues
• Have strong interpersonal skills
• Be eager to learn and have attention to detail

Requirements

• The candidate will have a background from a financial firm, ideally a hedge fund or asset manager
• Ability to communicate, to be able to articulate and explain complex paradigms in simple lay terms
• Ability to collaborate and communicate with other members of the team
• Ability to successfully engage in multiple initiatives and projects simultaneously

Have an excellent technical understanding of:

• Azure cloud computing concepts and design
• E365 / Office 365 / Teams / OneDrive / SharePoint
• Azure AD/Entra ID and knowledge of networking principles
• Deploying resources with IaC (Terraform) techniques, using PS/CLI/ARM templates
• SCCM
• CI/CD pipelines
• Intune policies and device management, iOS/Android
• Powershell and Terraform scripting
• HyperV server
• SQL Server
• Failover Clustering, High Availability and Disaster Recovery techniques
• Cloud DR solutions
• Networking switch administration and PaloAlto firewall (knowledge of)
• Azure Kubernetes / containers
• DevOps work practices, pipelines, git control