Job Description

Cloud Platform Engineer - Energy / Oil and Gas, Azure, AWS

Up to 700 per day

UK (Remote)

6 - 12 months

My client is a high profile Consultancy who urgently require a Cloud Platform Engineer with proven Energy / Oil & Gas industry experience, along with strong Azure (and ideally AWS too) expertise and proven experience with FinOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Configuration Management, and modern CI/CD platforms and workflows.

Key Requirements:

• Proven experience as a Cloud Platform Engineer with proven Energy / Oil & Gas industry experience
• Expertise in Azure (hands-on Cloud Engineering)
• Proven experience with FinOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Configuration Management, and modern CI/CD platforms and workflows
• Excellence in operational infrastructure support and maintenance (including cloud data centres) in the Energy / Oil & gas sector, covering systems such Server, Storage, Back-up & Recovery, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and Security services
• Ability to help to shape the Cloud strategy by providing key tactical input to the Cloud Architect, driving FinOps / SRE practices and governing the operations of managed service providers (third parties)
• Capability to help drive the adoption of modern practices, including GitOps, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / Ansible / Bicep / ARM), and CI/CD development (transitioning from Azure DevOps to GitHub Enterprise)
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

Nice to have:

• Microsoft Certification (ie Azure Solutions Architect Expert)
• Working knowledge of AWS and subsequent AWS certifications
• Immediate availability

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