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

Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited
London Contract GBP 156,000 – 182,000
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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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