Cloud Engineer – Azure at Impulse Logic, Remote, 3 Months, £600 per day (Outside IR35)

Job Overview
We are seeking an experienced Cloud Engineer specialised in Azure to join our team on a 3-month contract basis. We've proven our concept and now need to scale. You'll take our existing MVP Azure infrastructure and re-architect it into a production-grade platform capable of meeting enterprise security requirements, SLA commitments, and the scrutiny of enterprise customer audits.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Infrastructure

• Redesign Azure architecture for medium enterprise scale, reliability, and security
• Design and deploy high-availability, fault-tolerant infrastructure with appropriate redundancy
• Establish disaster recovery and business continuity procedures
• Define and document the target architecture for long-term team ownership

• Harden security posture to meet medium enterprise customer requirements
• Implement Azure security best practices (Key Vault, Managed Identities, RBAC, Private Endpoints)
• Configure network security groups, WAF, and DDoS protection
• Establish audit logging and compliance reporting
• Design with platform readiness in mind for SOC2

• Implement monitoring, alerting, and incident response using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, and Log Analytics
• Establish backup, recovery, and business continuity procedures
• Document infrastructure architecture and operational runbooks

• Extend and refactor the existing IaC using Terraform (strongly preferred)
• Ensure environments are fully reproducible and provisioning is automated
• Establish environment promotion processes across development, staging, and production

Required Experience

• 5+ years Cloud Engineering experience with at least 2 years at enterprise scale
• Proven track record of taking platforms from MVP to production-grade enterprise readiness
• Deep Azure expertise across compute, networking, storage, and security services

• Expert-level Azure knowledge (App Services, AKS, Functions, API Management, Azure SQL)
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform strongly preferred)
• Scripting and automation (Python, Bash, PowerShell)

• Understanding of enterprise security requirements and compliance frameworks
• Experience with SLA design and incident management
• Familiarity with SOC2, ISO27001, or similar compliance requirements
• Experience supporting enterprise customer technical validation and procurement reviews

• Scaled at least one B2B SaaS platform to enterprise customers
• Understands what enterprise procurement and security teams look for in an infrastructure audit

What Success Looks Like

• Documented, production-grade Azure architecture
• 99.9% uptime SLA capability
• Comprehensive monitoring and alerting
• Automated CI/CD deployments
• Security posture ready for enterprise customer audits
• Fully reproducible infrastructure as code

What We Offer

• 3-month contract with potential to extend
• £600 per day
• Remote
• Outside IR35
• Key role in scaling a cutting-edge platform to enterprise readiness
• Direct impact on product market success and enterprise adoption
• Collaborative environment with experienced technical leadership
• Competitive rate

Applicants must be based in the UK.

Job Type: Fixed term contract
Contract length: 3 months

Pay: £600.00 per day

Benefits:

• Work from home

Application question(s):

• When would you be available from?

Work Location: Remote