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Azure Cloud Engineer – Inside IR35

The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero was created in February 2023 with the goal of securing a safe energy supply as well as ensuring the UK leads the way in achieving Net Zero. We are an innovative and exciting department, looking for the very best to lead the way.

The Department of Energy and Net Zero has a secure analytic platform for its Analytical community. The platform sits on the Azure Public Cloud and is supported by a small Internal team. 

The platform has been on Azure for just under 2 years and is constantly introducing new features on the platform. The internal engineer’s aims are to make sure the infrastructure is built to user needs, is cost effective, future proof, and ensures security principles. 

The cloud engineer will work to our Cloud Architecture and Product Manager as well as working alongside the other engineers.

Key Skills and Experience:

• SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be eligible and willing to undergo these checks.
• Good understanding of Azure cloud services and architecture.
• Ability to configure service and private endpoints for Azure PaaS.
• Ability to configure internal and public load balancers and troubleshooting load balancing.
• Experienced in running Windows and Linux virtual machines on the cloud.
• Skills to monitor and maintain Azure resources.
• Experience of managing storage solutions for virtual database files, hard disks, application data, Azure files, DataLake, etc.
• Knowledge of configuring Azure DNS.
• Experience in Azure Security.
• Knowledge of scripting languages like PowerShell, Bash, BICEP, or Python for automation and task automation in Azure.

Desirable:

• Public Sector experience.

If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with daniel.mcbride@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk

Disability confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, DESNZ guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

If you qualify for the above, please notify us on PSRapplications@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk.

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.