Senior Cloud Engineer Azure - Daily Rate Contract - Hybrid-Working Model - Excellent NEW RoleOur 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 architectureDeep knowledge of Azure Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) or similar frameworksCloud Security (e.g. Azure Policy, Azure Defender for Cloud, Azure Sentinel)Experience with cloud securityHands-on experience with CI/CD toolchains such as Maven/JenkinsExperience with general programming languages Java/python etcAgile development practices and test-driven developmentExperience with configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, CloudFormation, SaltMinimum 7+ years' of experiencein IT (information technology) where 5 year needs to be in Cloud Engineering (Azure/AWS/GCP etc)Experience with identity management frameworks and toolsExperience in Linux\UNIX system administrationExperience with Container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift)GoCloud provider certificationExperience with architecting software solutions** Live Role - Apply for immediate consideration **If you are interested in this position please apply or contact in strictest confidence.