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Azure/AWS Cloud Project Delivery Engineer - MUST HAVE eSC CLEARANCE - London and remote - 6 months

Octopus Computer Associates
2 hours ago
Contract
London
United Kingdom

Azure/AWS Cloud Project Delivery Engineer - MUST HAVE eSC CLEARANCE - London and remote - 6 months+

One of our Blue Chip Clients is urgently looking for an Azure/AWS Cloud Project Delivery Engineer.

CONTRACTOR MUST BE eSC CLEARED (active).

Please find some details below:

Location: Hybrid 90% office (London) - 10% Remote

Duration: 6 months contract

MUST BE PAYE THROUGH UMBRELLA

Role Description:

Azure/AWS Cloud Project Delivery Engineer

An experienced Azure and AWS Cloud Project Delivery Engineer responsible for the successful delivery of secure cloud infrastructure, platform, and application hosting solutions within enterprise and regulated environments. Working across project, engineering, security, and operational teams, the role combines deep technical expertise with strong stakeholder management skills to deliver cloud transformation, migration, and modernisation initiatives.

The engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, automating, and transitioning secure cloud services while working in Agile delivery teams and collaborating closely with clients, suppliers, vendors, and internal stakeholders throughout the project life cycle.

Key Responsibilities

  • Deliver secure Azure and AWS cloud hosting solutions from design through to operational handover.
  • Work within Agile project teams, participating in sprint planning, delivery, reviews, and continuous improvement activities.
  • Engage effectively with customer stakeholders, project managers, architects, security teams, third-party suppliers, and service delivery teams.
  • Design and implement secure cloud networking architectures, including hub-and-spoke and hybrid connectivity patterns.
  • Deploy and manage cloud-native, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and containerised workloads.
  • Implement cloud identity, authentication, and authorisation solutions while ensuring appropriate separation of management and data plane access for sensitive environments.
  • Support application deployment and operational readiness activities with a strong understanding of underlying infrastructure components.
  • Deliver monitoring, alerting, observability, and operational insights using enterprise monitoring platforms.
  • Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation solutions, and CI/CD pipelines to enable repeatable and secure deployments.
  • Provide technical leadership, mentor team members, and contribute to knowledge sharing across the wider delivery organisation.

Technical Experience

Cloud Platforms

  • Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Secure cloud hosting and regulated environments

Networking & Infrastructure

  • Hub-and-spoke architectures
  • Virtual networking, routing, segmentation, and hybrid connectivity
  • Strong infrastructure and networking background

Compute & Hosting

  • Azure Virtual Machines (VMs)
  • Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)
  • AWS EC2
  • Container platforms including AKS, EKS, and Kubernetes

Identity & Security

  • Microsoft Entra ID
  • AWS Identity Center
  • Okta
  • ManageEngine and other enterprise identity solutions
  • Privileged access management and secure access controls
  • Governance and guardrails protecting management and data planes

Observability & Operations

  • Azure Monitor
  • Splunk
  • Logging, monitoring, alerting, and operational dashboards

Automation & DevOps

  • Terraform
  • Azure DevOps
  • GitLab
  • Python
  • CI/CD pipeline design and implementation
  • Infrastructure as Code and deployment automation

Personal Attributes

  • Strong team player with a collaborative approach to delivery.
  • Comfortable working across multidisciplinary engineering, project, and operational teams.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
  • Proactive in sharing knowledge, mentoring colleagues, and promoting engineering best practices.
  • Able to balance strategic objectives with hands-on technical delivery in complex cloud environments

Please send CV for full details and immediate interviews. We are a preferred supplier to the client.