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Senior Azure Plattform Engineer
£50,000 - 57,500
Centenary Way 2, Beckwith
£50,000 - 57,500
Requirements
Must:
- Strong hands-on experience supporting Microsoft Azure environments.
- Proven ability to work autonomously, taking ownership of technical problems through to resolution.
- Excellent troubleshooting and diagnostic skills across cloud environments.
- Strong communication and documentation skills, able to articulate technical details clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience coaching peers and contributing to a collaborative, high-performance culture.
- Understanding of operational governance, SLAs, and the commercial impact of technical decisions.
- Proven track record of delivering service improvement or automation initiatives.
- Experience working within formal change and incident management frameworks (e.g., ITIL).
- Expert knowledge of Microsoft Azure (IaaS, PaaS, governance, networking, and identity).
- AZ-104 and AZ-305 certifications are desirable.
- Skilled in scripting and automation (PowerShell required; Bicep/Terraform desirable).
- Experience with Azure monitoring and observability tools (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Datadog).
Responsibilities
- Act as an escalation point for complex technical issues across customer environments.
- Take ownership of high-priority incidents and ensure timely resolution through effective coordination and technical troubleshooting.
- Deliver and contribute to service improvement initiatives, including automation, monitoring, and performance optimization.
- Work alongside the Team Lead and other senior engineers to support project delivery, service transitions, and escalations.
- Coach and support engineers to develop their technical capabilities and troubleshooting approaches.
- Participate in the paid on-call rota, providing out-of-hours escalation support.
- Maintain and enhance certifications across core Microsoft technologies, staying current with new features and best practices.
Description
The Senior Engineer role is a hands-on technical position where you’ll act as a subject matter expert across Azure, providing advanced technical support, service improvement, and project delivery. You’ll work closely with the Team Lead, other engineers, and the wider Cloud Services Group to ensure consistent service delivery and technical excellence. In this position, you will take ownership of complex incidents and requests, drive root cause analysis, and help improve the quality and reliability of managed services. Additionally, as a senior member of the team, you’ll be expected to work autonomously, coach and support other engineers, and help shape technical standards within the team. Successful candidates will be required to undergo NPPV3 and SC background checks as part of the role, which are completed after starting employment. Candidates may also be required to support customer change windows or planned maintenance activities outside of core hours. Join us to contribute to a high-performance culture while enhancing your technical expertise in a remote work environment.
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