Hybrid: Azure Cloud & Platform Engineer

Cloud & Platform Engineer (Contract)

Role Summary

We are looking for a hands-on Cloud & Platform Engineer to support, evolve, and secure our Azure and Microsoft 365 environment across a distributed retail enterprise. This role focuses on operational excellence, security integration, automation, and production stability.

Cloud Platform Operations

• Own day-to-day operations of Azure infrastructure and services including networking, compute, storage, Kubernetes, and PaaS workloads
• Support hybrid environments (Azure + on-prem + retail locations)
• Maintain uptime, performance, and reliability of business-critical systems

Security & Incident Response

• Participate in security incident response for cloud and M365 environments
• Investigate and remediate alerts from Microsoft Defender
• Partner with Security on containment, remediation, and root cause analysis

Automation & Operational Efficiency

• Build automation using PowerShell and Azure automation
• Improve provisioning, scaling, and remediation processes
• Standardize repeatable infrastructure patterns

Cloud Architecture & Engineering

• Design and support Azure networking, application hosting, and storage
• Support modernization and migration efforts

Monitoring, Reliability & Cost Management

• Monitor cloud workloads and troubleshoot issues
• Implement cost optimization strategies
• Improve observability

Backup, Recovery & Resilience

• Maintain backup and disaster recovery processes
• Support business continuity planning

Identity & Access

• Support Entra ID including Conditional Access and PIM
• Enforce strong authentication controls
• Part of the team to implement Intune policies while we migrate from on-prem to cloud first

Collaboration & Communication

• Serve as escalation point for cloud issues
• Work cross-functionally with Security, Infrastructure, and applications teams