Cloud Automation Engineer - Edinburgh or Bristol

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Cloud Automation Engineer to work for our client within the Financial Services sector. This is initially a 12 month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role (3 days in office) that will be based in Edinburgh or Bristol.

We’re looking for an experienced Cloud Automation Engineer to help design and build the Azure infrastructure underpinning a growing portfolio of technology and AI initiatives.

You'll focus on creating secure, resilient and scalable cloud services and automating the infrastructure used by engineering teams. Working across engineering, architecture, security and application teams, you'll also help establish the standards, patterns and guardrails used to build and operate Azure environments.

The position sits within a Global Infrastructure Engineering function with a focus on strategic direction, implementation and third-line support.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build and automate secure and scalable Microsoft Azure infrastructure.
• Translate application, platform and business requirements into repeatable infrastructure patterns.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform and Bicep.
• Support automated configuration management using technologies such as Ansible, Puppet or Azure Automation.
• Implement cloud governance and Policy as Code controls.
• Build security controls covering identity, networking, secrets and access.
• Develop automation and tooling using PowerShell, Python or Go.
• Work with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins and Git to support automated delivery.
• Support containerised workloads using technologies including Docker, Kubernetes/AKS and Azure Container Apps.
• Monitor and troubleshoot cloud environments using Azure Monitor and Log Analytics.
• Support infrastructure requirements for emerging AI and data services