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With our clients at the heart of everything we do, our hard-working team has successfully delivered on an unprecedented growth and transformation journey, and we are now represented by over circa 13,000 employees across 112 offices worldwide.Your career with us should reflect your energy and passion.\nThat’s why, at Apex Group, we will do more than simply ‘empower’ you. We will work to supercharge your unique skills and experience.\nTake the lead and we’ll give you the support you need to be at the top of your game. And we offer you the freedom to be a positive disrupter and turn big ideas into bold, industry-changing realities.\nFor our business, for clients, and for you\nSenior Cloud Administrator (Azure & AWS)\nAbout the Role\nWe are seeking an experienced Senior Cloud Administrator to design, deploy, and manage our multi-cloud infrastructure across Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS). 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Azure Firewall, WAF, and DDoS Protection.\nApply Azure Policy and Blueprints for governance, compliance, and guardrails across subscriptions.\nConduct regular security audits, vulnerability assessments, and remediation using Defender Vulnerability Management.\nEnsure compliance with standards such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, or industry-specific mandates.\nAWS Administration\nManage EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, CloudFront, and Route 53.\nImplement AWS security best practices: IAM policies, Security Groups, GuardDuty, AWS Config, and CloudTrail.\nConfigure AWS Organizations, SCPs, and multi-account governance.\nManage backup/DR strategies using AWS Backup and cross-region replication.\nMonitor infrastructure using CloudWatch and optimize costs via Cost Explorer / Trusted Advisor.\nAutomation & DevOps\nBuild and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, ARM/Bicep templates, or CloudFormation.\nAutomate operational tasks using PowerShell, Azure CLI, AWS CLI, and 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