Azure Infrastructure and Platform Engineer

We are looking for an Azure Infrastructure and Platform Engineer to provide support for business-critical Azure-hosted solutions. The role focuses on operating and supporting Azure infrastructure networking platform services integrations monitoring and security controls. The successful candidate will be comfortable troubleshooting cloud-native applications and working closely with development teams while remaining primarily focused on platform operations reliability and service management.

Experience working within enterprise Azure Landing Zone environments including governance connectivity and security controls would be advantageous.

Security Clearance: This role requires the successful candidate to hold or be eligible to obtain UK Government SC (Security Check) clearance.

We are looking for an Azure Infrastructure and Platform Engineer to provide L2/L3 support for business-critical Azure-hosted solutions. The role focuses on operating and supporting Azure infrastructure networking platform services integrations monitoring and security controls. The successful candidate will be comfortable troubleshooting cloud-native applications and working closely with development teams while remaining primarily focused on platform operations reliability and service management.

Experience working within enterprise Azure Landing Zone environments including governance connectivity and security controls would be advantageous.

Security Clearance: This role requires the successful candidate to hold or be eligible to obtain UK Government SC (Security Check) clearance.

Key Responsibilities

• Platform & Infrastructure Support: Own incidents through to resolution across the Azure platforms and infrastructure underpinning cloud-native applications meeting agreed service levels and operational targets.
• PaaS & Integration: Operate monitor and troubleshoot Azure platform services including App Services Functions Logic Apps storage databases Service Bus Event Grid and API Management (APIM).
• Monitoring & Observability: Maintain platform and application health using Azure Monitor Application Insights Log Analytics and automated alerting acting proactively to prevent service disruption.
• Incident & Problem Management: Diagnose issues across infrastructure platform application and integration layers. Perform root cause analysis and implement corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• DevOps & Release Management: Support CI/CD pipelines infrastructure-as-code deployments environment promotion and controlled releases across development test and production environments.
• Security & Governance: Support Azure security identity governance and compliance controls including RBAC PIM Conditional Access Azure Policy Key Vault and Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
• Developer Collaboration: Troubleshoot application issues analyse logs and telemetry debug straightforward defects and work closely with development teams to resolve platform and application concerns.
• Operational Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve reliability performance monitoring automation documentation and operational processes.
• On-Call Availability: Participate in a paid on-call and out-of-hours support rota to maintain service availability outside core business hours.

Qualifications :

Azure Infrastructure & Platform

• Demonstrable experience running and supporting cloud-native Azure environments.
• Deep working knowledge of Azure Networking & Connectivity; Design operate and troubleshoot hub-spoke networking Azure Firewall Application Gateway/WAF Private Endpoints DNS VPN/ExpressRoute routing network security controls and hybrid connectivity across platform and workload landing zones
• Experience in Identity & Access Management (IAM); Manage RBAC PIM Conditional Access Managed Identities and Service Principals ensuring secure access least-privilege governance and compliance
• Experience supporting Azure governance and security capabilities including Azure Policy Management Groups Key Vault Microsoft Defender for Cloud and subscription governance.
• Strong working knowledge of Azure PaaS services including App Services Functions Logic Apps Storage Accounts and Azure databases including configuration scaling resilience and performance optimisation.
• Experience with Azure Monitor Application Insights Log Analytics alerting dashboards and KQL-based troubleshooting.
• Strong understanding of SQL Server and Azure SQL with exposure to Cosmos DB Entra ID Single Sign-On (SSO) and core Azure IaaS PaaS and SaaS services.
• Experience operating within enterprise Azure Landing Zone environments including governance connectivity and security controls.
• Exposure to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Azure Container Apps or containerised workloads would be advantageous.

Support Operations & DevOps

• Experience providing application and platform support including incident problem and service request management to agreed service levels. ITIL awareness is desirable.
• Experience supporting Git-based source control Azure DevOps pipelines (CI/CD) infrastructure-as-code deployments and controlled releases across development test and production environments.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Bicep ARM Templates Terraform or equivalent automation technologies.

Development Fluency

• Sufficient C# /.NET knowledge to debug trace and troubleshoot application issues with awareness of REST APIs and modern front-end frameworks such as React Angular or Blazor is desirable.
• Comfortable working with development teams as a technical peer contributing to issue resolution across both platform and application layers.
• Experience using modern developer productivity tools including GitHub Copilot is desirable.

Other Requirements

• Strong communication stakeholder management and problem-solving skills with experience working in Agile delivery and/or managed service environments.
• Azure certifications desirable particularly AZ-104 (Azure Administrator) AZ-400 (DevOps Engineer) AZ-700 (Azure Network Engineer)
• Active SC clearance or willingness and eligibility to undergo SC vetting.
• Willingness to participate in a paid on-call and out-of-hours support rota.
• Ability to work directly with clients technical leads architects and delivery teams within regulated and public sector environments.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time

Experience: years
Vacancy: 1