Flagstone

Senior Cloud Engineer - Contract

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2 months ago
London, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

  • Migrate live services onto the new Azure cloud without disrupting current production systems.
  • Provide day-to-day operational support and incident response during the migration programme.
  • Author and maintain production-grade Terraform and Bicep modules with testing, validation, versioning, and automated drift detection and remediation.
  • Design Azure landing zones, hub-and-spoke network architectures, private endpoint patterns, and hybrid connectivity using ExpressRoute and VPN gateways.
  • Build shared integration infrastructure for partner and AI-tool integrations.
  • Define and roll out golden paths to reduce delivery costs and accelerate engineering teams.
  • Establish AI platform foundations including an AI gateway, observability stack, AI-tool hosting, and model access through AWS Bedrock.
  • Build and maintain infrastructure pipelines with security scanning, plan validation, and approval gates.
  • Implement role-based access control using Entra ID, managed identities, and service principals.

Requirements

  • Hands-on Azure platform experience spanning landing zones, networking, identity, and storage.
  • Production experience with Terraform and/or Bicep, including migration between the two.
  • Practical experience with hub-and-spoke networking, private endpoints, DNS integration, and hybrid connectivity.
  • Experience building end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with automated security and compliance gates.
  • Strong understanding of Entra ID, RBAC, managed identities, and Azure subscription and management-group hierarchies.
  • Experience owning both migration delivery and associated operational support.
  • Ability to communicate design decisions and trade-offs through engineering briefs and architectural decision records.
  • Relevant Azure certifications, such as AZ-104 or AZ-305.
  • Experience hosting AI workloads, including AI gateways, observability, and model access through AWS Bedrock.
  • Experience building golden paths or internal developer platforms.
  • Experience in a similar fintech or financial-services environment.
  • Growth mindset, curiosity, and ability to work independently with immediate impact.

Benefits

  • Contract position designed for immediate contribution with no long ramp-up.
  • Collaborative, inclusive culture with support, professional growth, and visible impact.

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