Azure Edge Cloud Engineer

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Senior Azure Edge Cloud Engineer to work for our client within the retail sector. This is initially a 6-month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role in London.

You will play a key role in ensuring our client’s environments are scalable, reliable, secure, and cost-efficient, while driving continuous improvement across our cloud capabilities and helping to deliver best-in-class cloud services to our client.

Our client is looking for an experienced and highly motivated Senior Azure Edge Cloud Engineer to support the design, deployment, and administration of Azure Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) for their Edge solutions. You will be responsible for implementing and managing scalable, secure, and high-performance hybrid cloud infrastructure, ensuring seamless integration between on-premises systems and their Azure Cloud Platform.

Responsibilities
• Use cutting-edge tools and technologies to continuously deliver robust Cloud Infrastructure at the Edge, using Infrastructure as Code practices
• Engage in supporting the design, collaborating with product owners, Engineering community and architects to ensure that solutions help customers and achieve our business goals and objectives
• Discover and recommend ways to improve reliability and efficiency, with a keen eye on governance and security
• Develop internal tools to improve platform speed, security, and cost-efficiency, enabling teams to work smarter
• Deploy and configure production systems, with a particular focus on automation, ease of configuration, reduction of human error, repeatability, and security
• Monitor new features/functionality and assess their Ops implications to continuously improve services
• Ensure identity and access management controls are in place and strictly adhered to
• Monitor infrastructure by setting appropriate thresholds and react to event driven alerts appropriately
• Produce and maintain documentation of support processes & resolutions to known operational issues

Requirements
• Demonstrable experience in Microsoft Azure, preferably with proven experience in Azure HCI
• Proven experience in Cloud Operations and DevOps environments, with a strong focus on best practices and continuous improvement, especially using Azure Local (HCI)
• Skilled in automated testing, pipeline maintenance, and using tools like GitHub and GitHub Actions for version control
• Familiar with Agile methodologies, ITIL, SRE, and service operations practices
• Competent in system monitoring, security, auditing, and tracking work through tools like Jira
• Up-to-date knowledge of cloud technologies and a general understanding of related technology stacks
• Effective in managing workloads, mentoring team members, and driving platform improvements while engaging with stakeholders
• Knowledge of running containers and container orchestration at a large, distributed scale, utilising Kubernetes
• Experience of managing the lifecycle and maintenance of multiple Kubernetes clusters prioritising service stability and uptime
• Knowledge of Kubernetes networking paradigms including CNI, Calico and MetalLB

Why join us?
• Career coaching and access to upskilling throughout your entire FDM career
• Initial upskilling pre-assignment that has been accredited by TechSkills
• Assignments with global companies and opportunities to work abroad
• Opportunity to obtain certifications from Microsoft, Salesforce, Cisco and more
• Access to the Buy As You Earn share scheme

About FDM

We are a business and technology consultancy and one of the UK's leading employers, recruiting the brightest talent to become the innovators of tomorrow. We have centres across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, and a global workforce of over 4,000 Consultants. FDM has shown exponential growth throughout the years, firmly establishing itself as an award-winning employer and is listed on the FTSE4Good Index.

Diversity and Inclusion

FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws.