Senior Cloud Engineer Azure - Daily Rate Contract - Hybrid-Working Model - Excellent NEW Role Our client is looking to hire a Senior Cloud Engineer Azure (Contractor) with strong hands-on enterprise commercial experience. In this role, the successful candidate will work as a key contributor within a cloud platform team, focusing on automation, infrastructure as code, and secure delivery pipelines to: collaborate with engineering, security, and operations teams to deliver well-architected solutions aligned with industry best practices. Skills Required: Deep knowledge of web protocols, multiple operating systems, hypervisors and distributed systems architecture Deep knowledge of Azure Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) or similar frameworks Cloud Security (e.g. Azure Policy, Azure Defender for Cloud, Azure Sentinel) Experience with cloud security Hands-on experience with CI/CD toolchains such as Maven/Jenkins Experience with general programming languages Java/python etc Agile development practices and test-driven development Experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, CloudFormation, Salt Minimum 7+ years' of experience in IT (information technology) where 5 year needs to be in Cloud Engineering (Azure/AWS/GCP etc) Experience with identity management frameworks and tools Experience in Linux/UNIX system administration Experience with Container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift) Go Cloud provider certification Experience with architecting software solutions ** Live Role - Apply for immediate consideration ** If you are interested in this position please apply or contactin strictest confidence. Please note: We have a number of similar positions currently, and in the future, which we would like to discuss with you should you indicate your interest in this role. When we receive your application for this role, we will contact you to advise you of our process for other similar positions. Stelfox is fully compliant with GDPR regulations and you can read more in our privacy policy here: Your shared data will not be disclosed or transferred to a third party data controller or data processor located outside the EEA unless we have obtained your express consent. We look forward to working with you.