About this role
Salary: £65,000 - 75,000 per year
Requirements: 10+ years of commercial experience in platform engineering or cloud infrastructure.Strong hands-on Microsoft Azure engineering experience across compute, networking, storage, identity, security, and monitoring services.Proven Infrastructure as Code expertise using Terraform and Terragrunt.Experience building reusable Azure landing zones, platform templates, or engineering patterns.Strong understanding of DevOps and DevSecOps practices, including CI/CD, source control, automated testing, and release management.Experience with Azure observability, monitoring, alerting, logging, and platform reliability.Practical knowledge of cloud security, governance, and enterprise engineering standards.Experience applying FinOps principles, including tagging strategies, right-sizing, and cloud cost optimisation.Excellent communication skills with the ability to work effectively within large enterprise engineering teams.Experience producing technical documentation and mentoring engineers.Desirable: experience working within large-scale enterprise Azure platform programmes.Desirable: knowledge of Azure Policy, Azure Landing Zones, and enterprise governance models.Desirable: experience supporting platform resilience, disaster recovery, and operational readiness.Desirable: familiarity with agile delivery methodologies and Scrum teams.Desirable: experience working alongside architecture, security, and operations teams within regulated environments.Desirable: experience delivering cloud platforms within complex, enterprise environments. Responsibilities: Design, build, and optimise Azure platform capabilities that are secure, scalable, and resilient.Develop production-ready Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Terragrunt, and Azure-native tooling.Create reusable Azure platform templates and engineering patterns to support consistent platform adoption.Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and release processes.Implement observability, monitoring, logging, resilience, and operational readiness across the platform.Embed FinOps principles, improving cloud cost visibility and optimisation.Work closely with engineering teams throughout sprint planning, delivery, reviews, and technical demonstrations.Coach and support engineers through knowledge sharing, documentation, and paired engineering.Contribute technical expertise to architecture, security, and operational discussions.Produce clear technical documentation and reusable engineering standards. Technologies: AzureCI/CDCloudDevSecOpsDevOpsSupportSecurityTerraform More:
We are hiring Azure Platform Engineering Consultants to join a major cloud transformation programme delivering Telco-as-a-Service on Azure. This is a hybrid role based in Newbury, offering a salary of £65,000 to £75,000 plus benefits. You will join an established, high-performing engineering team working on a large-scale Azure platform that underpins future digital services. We offer the opportunity to work with experienced cloud architects and platform engineers on modern Azure technologies, solving complex engineering challenges in a collaborative enterprise environment focused on engineering excellence.
last updated 29 week of 2026