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System Recruitment Specialists

Azure Cloud Engineer

Hybrid

London, United Kingdom

Full Time

04-04-2025

Job Specifications

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer - Azure
4 days a week in the office in London
Base salary of 75 – 95K 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

About the Company

"Your specialist partner for tailored recruitment solutions across Financial and Technology markets" System Recruitment Specialists are a boutique search firm that offers superior level of service to customers on exclusive Financial & Technology assignments. Using cutting edge technology, SystemRS will provide its customers with a genuine recruitment partnership. Offering bespoke resourcing solutions from retained search, managed services, contingency, professional contracts and permanent placements our proven methods will... Know more

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