Azure Cloud Engineer - Fin Ops

Azure Cloud Engineer | Contract | Outside IR35 | £550/dayHybrid - Coventry or Huddersfield (2 days/week on-site) | 3 months + likely extensionA well-established UK building materials business is looking for an experienced Azure Cloud Engineer to join its Platform Engineering team on an initial 3-month contract.The organisation runs a fully cloud-native estate (no on-premise infrastructure) on Microsoft Azure, and has built up a meaty platform backlog the team needs help working through. This is a hands-on delivery role where you''ll make a visible impact quickly - and bring depth the existing team can learn from.What you''ll be working on: New network build - vWAN and Hub-and-Spoke, alongside a wider network optimisation project. Azure DNS, IPAM and Private Endpoint configuration. Governance at scale - tagging standards, Azure Policy and a least-privilege permission model. Consolidation work - Application Gateway (centralised model) and App Service Plans (tiering model). FinOps - storage account usage, under-utilised resources and cost optimisation. DevOps andamp; automation - IaC, repo/version control, Key Vault secrets/certs and automated checks such as secret rotation. Storage account controls - life cycle management, tiering and file shares. What we''re looking for: Strong hands-on Azure infrastructure/cloud engineering experience. Solid Azure networking (vWAN, Hub-and-Spoke, ExpressRoute, DNS, IPAM, Private Endpoints, App Gateway). Governance, FinOps and ..... full job details .....