Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
George Denton
// hybrid cloud · IaC · automation
about
Hybrid Azure and on-prem infrastructure for a regulated payments platform. Day-to-day is IaC with Bicep, PowerShell automation, access and security, and monitoring.
Path to infrastructure: electrical work, then IT support. First proper infrastructure project was a self-hosted media stack. Home lab of 15+ Docker containers for self-hosted services and testing.
experience
A UK payments processor
2022 — Present- Nov 2025 — Present
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Hybrid Azure and on-prem infrastructure for a regulated payments platform. IaC with Bicep through Azure DevOps, alerting, monitoring, incident response, plus an on-call rota for critical services.
- Apr 2024 — Nov 2025
Junior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Hands-on infrastructure across Azure and on-prem; PowerShell automation, Azure Monitor and Log Analytics. First engineering role.
- Oct 2023 — Apr 2024
Second Line Support Engineer
Escalation point for endpoint, identity and connectivity issues; vulnerability management and endpoint administration.
- Dec 2022 — Oct 2023
First Line Support Engineer
Front-line support across a Microsoft environment, in person and remote.
// earlier
- Delivery Driver Oglesby Butchers 2021 — 2022
- Merchandiser B&Q (MET team) 2018 — 2021
- Electrician AC Electrics Ltd 2015 — 2018
stack
Cloud
- Azure
- Hyper-V
- Entra ID
- Defender
IaC & Automation
- Bicep
- PowerShell
- Azure DevOps
- Power Automate
Monitoring & Security
- Azure Monitor
- Log Analytics
- KQL
- PKI
- MFA
Practice
- IaC
- CI/CD
- Observability
- Incident response
- On-call
- AI-assisted development