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.