Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Job Title

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Ref #

59439

Date posted

Thursday, September 10, 2026

Country

United Kingdom

Location

Woking

Business area

IT

Department

IT

Position level

5 - Supervisory / Professional​ - (L-16)

Working time

Full Time

Contract type

Permanent

Working pattern

9am - 6pm Monday to Friday

What to Expect

The Cloud Infrastructure Engineer designs, builds, automates and operates McLaren’s Azure, Microsoft 365 and hybrid-cloud platforms, keeping them secure, resilient, well-governed and cost-efficient , providing deep hands-on capability across Azure infrastructure, identity, automation and platform engineering to accelerate delivery for the business while protecting production.

What You'll Do

• Build, automate and operate Azure landing zones, virtual networks, AVD/VDI session hosts and platform services using Infrastructure-as-Code, ensuring secure-by-default, supportable and scalable outcomes.

• Administer Entra ID, Microsoft 365 and hybrid identity, including RBAC, PIM, Conditional Access, group management and privileged account governance to reduce attack surface and enforce least privilege.

• Own Azure DevOps and GitHub pipelines, repositories, automation and certificate provisioning to deliver repeatable, auditable change and eliminate manual toil.

• Deliver and govern platform changes through the Technical CAB, producing designs, risk assessments and operational documentation for safe implementation.

• Integrate and operate cloud security tooling and act on posture, vulnerability and guardrail findings to maintain a strong security baseline.

• Drive FinOps and cost discipline across the cloud estate, identifying waste, right-sizing workloads and improving spend visibility.

• Provide third-line troubleshooting, transition BAU tasks to NTT, and author SOPs, knowledge articles and run-books to reduce key-person dependency.

What You'll Bring

• Understanding of how secure, resilient cloud platforms enable engineering, manufacturing and commercia l in a high-performance environment.
• Awareness of cloud governance, FinOps, ITIL change/incident/problem management and data classification.
• Strong hands-on Azure engineering across compute , networking ( vNET /gateways), storage, AVD and platform services.
• Entra ID / Microsoft 365 administration, hybrid identity, RBAC, PIM and Conditional Access.
• Infrastructure-as-Code and automation (Azure DevOps, PowerShell, Bicep/Terraform, CI/CD pipelines).
• Cloud security tooling, vulnerability remediation