Cloud Engineer

Microsoft 365 and Cloud Engineer Location: Lincoln, Hybrid Employment type: Full time, permanent Salary: 40,000 - 48,000, depending on experience This is a hands-on, cloud-first engineering role for someone who builds and secures Microsoft 365 and Azure, rather than someone who supports it from a service desk. You will own the configuration, hardening and continual improvement of our tenant, act as the senior escalation point for complex cloud and identity issues, and set the standard for how our platforms are run. If your strongest work is configuring Conditional Access policies, deploying and tuning Microsoft Defender, standing up Sentinel, automating with PowerShell and Infrastructure as Code, and driving Secure Score in the right direction, this role is built for you. What you will do Configure, secure and optimise Microsoft 365 services across Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint Online and OneDrive. Administer and harden Azure infrastructure, with a security-first approach throughout. Own identity and access: Microsoft Entra ID, Conditional Access, and MFA policy design and enforcement. Implement and manage Microsoft security tooling: Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Office 365, Purview and data loss prevention, and Intune endpoint management. Act as the senior escalation point for complex M365, Azure and identity incidents, leading root cause investigation and permanent fixes. Build automation for provisioning, configuration and operations using PowerShell, Graph ..... full job details .....