Infrastructure Engineer - Azure
- birmingham, england, United Kingdom
- Contract
- £50 - £75 Per Hour
Job Description
Location - Birmingham , Belfast or Croydon . Typical expectation is 2 days per week in the office .
A growing professional services organisation is hiring an Infrastructure Engineer on a 12-month fixed-term contract to support a busy internal infrastructure team through a period of expansion and integration work.
The role
You’ll join a lean infrastructure function working across:
- Microsoft 365 at platform level
- Azure hosting and virtual machine environments
- SharePoint administration
- Conditional Access review and clean-up
- Zscaler remote access and web filtering
- Some Meraki network infrastructure
This is a hands‑on role with plenty of autonomy. You’ll be trusted to take ownership of projects, improve existing environments, and help tackle a growing pipeline of infrastructure and M&A‑related work.
What they’re looking for
- Good understanding of Microsoft 365 at platform level
- Experience supporting infrastructure in a mid‑sized or larger organisation
- Broad infrastructure background rather than a narrow specialist focus
- Ability to work independently and drive improvements
- Exposure to monitoring tools and best practice alerting/dashboardingli>
Nice to have
- AWS experience
- Experience with M&A / systems integration
- Knowledge of Datadog
- Familiarity with Terraform / IaC
- Strong 3rd line engineers ready to step up may also be considered
Why consider it?
- High-impact role in a growing business
- Real scope to improve systems and processes
- Varied project work rather than BAU‑only support
- No on‑call and no always‑on culture
- Opportunity to take ownership and make visible change
- Potential for longer‑term opportunity beyond the initial term


