Senior Platform Engineer (Azure)

Description:

Want to take real ownership of an Azure environment rather than spend your time maintaining someone else's decisions?

We're looking for a Senior Azure Platform Engineer to join an organisation going through a significant technology transformation, moving towards a predominantly cloud-native environment built around Azure and the wider Microsoft ecosystem.

This is a genuinely hands-on senior engineering role where you'll have the opportunity to shape the Azure platform, influence technical decisions and lead projects, with plenty of scope to improve automation, Infrastructure as Code and engineering standards.

You'll also get exposure to Microsoft Fabric and modern data platforms as they become an increasingly important part of the organisation's technology estate.

What you'll be doing

Taking ownership of engineering across a growing Microsoft Azure estate
Designing and improving Azure infrastructure, networking, identity and security
Driving greater adoption of Infrastructure as Code and automation
Working with Terraform and/or Bicep, PowerShell, Azure CLI, Git and CI/CD
Implementing Azure governance, monitoring and security controls
Working with technologies including Azure Policy, Key Vault, Private Endpoints and Defender
Supporting the engineering platform behind Microsoft Fabric and modern data workloads
Leading technical projects and influencing cloud architecture decisions
Helping replace legacy and manual processes with modern, automated solutions
Acting as a senior technical escalation point for the platforms you buildWhat we're looking for

You'll be an experienced Azure Engineer, Cloud Engineer or Platform Engineer with strong hands-on Microsoft Azure experience.

Ideally, you'll bring experience across:

Azure architecture and administration
Azure networking, identity and RBAC
Terraform and/or Bicep
PowerShell and Azure CLI
Infrastructure as Code
Git and CI/CD
Azure security, governance and monitoring
Automation and DevOps engineering practicesExperience with Microsoft Fabric would be a big advantage, but it isn't essential.

We're equally interested in engineers who have worked with technologies such as Azure Databricks, Synapse, Data Lake, data pipelines or lakehouse architectures and want to develop further into Fabric.

Exposure to Entra ID, Microsoft 365, Defender, Purview or Power Platform would also be useful.

Why consider it?

This isn't a traditional infrastructure support role.

You'll have real technical ownership, direct involvement in architecture and the freedom to improve how cloud infrastructure is engineered and deployed.

You'll be joining during a major period of modernisation, giving you the opportunity to influence the environment rather than simply inherit it.

And importantly, there's a senior technical career path without having to move into people management.

Interested?

Apply now or get in touch for a confidential conversation about the role