About the Role
We are seeking Azure Cloud & Infrastructure Engineers to support the deployment, integration, operation, and continuous improvement of enterprise capabilities across both Microsoft Azure and on-premise environments. You will work closely with Microsoft, architects, delivery teams, and operational stakeholders to enable the transition of multiple capabilities into production, ensuring solutions are secure, resilient, scalable, and aligned to architectural and security requirements. This role requires engineers with strong experience across Azure cloud services, traditional infrastructure technologies, and hybrid environments, capable of operating within complex and secure environments spanning multiple tenants and security classifications.
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, configure, and support Azure and on-premise infrastructure solutions.
- Support the onboarding, integration, and deployment of multiple capabilities into production environments.
- Work across multiple Azure tenants and hybrid environments to deliver secure and resilient services.
- Configure, manage, and support Azure services including compute, networking, storage, monitoring, security, and identity.
- Support the integration of Azure services with on-premise infrastructure, networks, and security controls.
- Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation, and deployment pipelines.
- Support environment build, configuration, migration, and operational transition activities.
- Monitor infrastructure and platform performance, availability, and security, resolving issues and implementing improvements where required.
- Collaborate with Microsoft, internal engineering teams, project stakeholders, and customers to deliver infrastructure and platform capabilities.
- Produce and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, deployment guides, and support artefacts.
- Ensure compliance with security, governance, and architectural standards.
- Support incident, problem, change, and release management activities.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure cloud services and technologies.
- Experience designing, deploying, and supporting hybrid cloud and on-premise infrastructure environments.
- Experience working across multiple Azure tenants and enterprise environments.
- Strong understanding of Microsoft Entra ID, Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Networking, Azure Storage, Azure Monitor and Log Analytics, Azure Security and Governance Services.
- Experience with Windows Server and/or Linux administration.
- Experience supporting enterprise networking technologies, including firewalls, DNS, routing, and connectivity solutions.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform, Bicep, ARM Templates, or equivalent.
- Experience using Azure DevOps and CI/CD deployment pipelines.
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Experience supporting the transition of systems and services into production environments.
- Experience with Azure Landing Zones.
- Possess Microsoft Azure certifications.
- Must hold Security Check (SC) clearance as a minimum.
- Experience working within secure environments and across multiple security classifications is highly desirable.
- All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard.
- Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.
Skills
- Microsoft Azure cloud services
- Hybrid cloud infrastructure
- On-premise infrastructure
- Microsoft Entra ID
- Azure Virtual Machines
- Azure Networking
- Azure Storage
- Azure Monitor and Log Analytics
- Azure Security and Governance Services
- Windows Server administration
- Linux administration
- Enterprise networking technologies
- Firewalls
- DNS
- Routing
- Connectivity solutions
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Terraform
- Bicep
- ARM Templates
- Azure DevOps
- CI/CD deployment pipelines
- Troubleshooting
- Analytical skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Azure Landing Zones
- Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)
- Azure Arc
- VMware
- Virtualisation technologies
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Backup solutions
- Disaster recovery solutions
- Business continuity solutions
- DevSecOps
Location
- London, hybrid
- UK
- Europe
- Africa
- Frimley
Work Type
- Hybrid Working
- Hybrid
- Flexible working arrangements
Experience Level
- 2-5 Years Cloud experience (minimum)
- Experience working in an Agile Environment
Education Level
- Degree
- Apprenticeship
- Professional certification
- Equivalent practical experience
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive
Benefits
- Referral Bonus: 5000
- Lifelong learning
- Rewards tailored to what’s most important
- Support for financial and personal wellbeing
- Balanced lifestyle
About the Company
- BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts.
- We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.
- Join BAE Systems and you’ll be part of something bigger.
- As a valued member of our global colleague network, you’ll bring your unique skills and perspectives to help pioneer progress and protect what matters most.
- You’ll be trusted to play your part in delivering the advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions of tomorrow - shaping a safer future, for all of us.
- From the depths of the ocean, to the far reaches of space - there’s no limit to where a career at BAE Systems could take you.
- We are embracing Hybrid Working.
- By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we’re working remotely from one another.
- Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being.
- Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence.
- We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds – the best and brightest minds – can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.
- At BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, we pride ourselves in being a leader in the cyber defence industry, and Government contracts are an area we have many decades of experience in.
- Government and key infrastructure networks are critical targets to defend as the effects of these networks being breached can be devastating.
- As a member of the Government business unit, you will defend the connected world and ensure the protection of nations.
- We all have a role to play in defending our clients, and this is yours.
Equal Opportunity
- We’re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported.
- We know that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do.
- Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions.
- These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation.
