Cloud Infrastructure & Network Engineer - Azure Hybrid & Edge

Title - Cloud Infrastructure & Network Engineer - Azure Hybrid & Edge

Location: Remote

Eligibility - 5 years unbroken residency/Minimum 5 years of continuous UK residency

Buy Rate - GBP 300 daily (Inside IR35)

Role Purpose

The Intelligent Substation programme operates across the boundary between operational technology, edge computing and Azure cloud services. Its solutions connect distributed substation environments to centrally managed cloud platforms, enabling secure data acquisition, monitoring, analytics and application services.

We are seeking a senior, hands-on Cloud Infrastructure and Network Engineer to join a small multidisciplinary team responsible for maintaining, supporting and further developing this distributed environment. The role requires deep network diagnostic capability together with practical experience of Azure hybrid infrastructure, Azure Local, Azure Arc and Kubernetes platforms.

Required Skills and Experience

10+ years' experience in network, cloud infrastructure or hybrid-platform engineering.

Deep practical knowledge of IP Networking, subnetting, routing, VLANs, NAT, DNS, Firewalls, proxies and network segmentation.

Advanced packet-capture and protocol-analysis skills, including the ability to interpret PCAP files and diagnose issues across multiple network layers.

Strong hands-on experience with Wireshark, tcpdump, tcpreplay or comparable network diagnostic tools.

Significant experience designing and operating Azure networking, including Virtual Network, ExpressRoute, VPN Gateway, Azure Firewall and Private Link.

Strong experience with Azure Local and Azure Arc in distributed or hybrid environments.

Experience deploying or supporting Arc-enabled Kubernetes and AKS running on customer-managed infrastructure.

Good understanding of Kubernetes networking, ingress, service discovery, load balancing, certificates and container-to-container communication.

Experience with Entra ID, managed identities, role-based access control, certificate services and public key infrastructure.

Strong Linux administration and Bash Scripting skills, together with PowerShell experience.

Experience implementing infrastructure as code using Terraform or an equivalent technology.

Practical knowledge of cloud and infrastructure monitoring, logging, alerting and incident management.

Ability to troubleshoot complex problems involving multiple suppliers, platforms, network zones and security boundaries.