Azure Platform Engineer

Job summary

For*** is seeking an experienced Azure Platform Engineer to enhance and modernize their Microsoft Azure environment. The role involves collaborating with various teams to establish foundational cloud setups, manage Azure services, and create operational best practices.

Qualifications

• Proven experience working collaboratively across Development, Applications, Security and Infrastructure teams to deliver secure and performant cloud environments.
• Practical coding and scripting capability using PowerShell, Python, Azure CLI or equivalent command-line tooling to support operational automation.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure serverless and PaaS services, including Azure Functions, Function Apps, App Service Plans and related hosting models.
• Experience administering Azure SQL Database and/or Managed Instance, including access controls, private connectivity, resource tiering, backup/recovery and performance optimisation.
• Strong experience with infrastructure as code, including Terraform, Bicep or ARM templates, to deploy modular and repeatable cloud resources.
• Experience managing certificates, TLS/SSL, domain bindings, secrets and secret rotation using Azure Key Vault and automated renewal workflows.
• Practical knowledge of Azure governance, networking, Resource Group boundary design, Microsoft Entra ID, RBAC and information security best practice.
• Ability to monitor, troubleshoot and assess the operational health of Power Apps, Power Automate flows and underlying connectors.
• Experience configuring Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights and operational telemetry to support platform health and incident response.
• Excellent technical documentation skills, including best practice guides, architecture records, standard operating procedures, runbooks and support handover material.
• Strong communication skills, attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities in a busy professional services environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, configure and maintain Azure serverless components, including Azure Functions, Function Apps, App Service Plans, scaling models, host processes and environment lifecycles.
• Oversee Azure SQL Databases and Managed Instances, including availability, firewalls, private endpoints, Entra ID integration, performance monitoring, backups and recovery readiness.
• Manage certificates and secrets across Azure workloads using Azure Key Vault, App Service certificates and SSL/TLS automation, including rotation, renewal and lifecycle controls.
• Identify, analyse and resolve Azure infrastructure vulnerabilities, deployment issues and configuration risks in close coordination with the Security team.
• Provision and maintain cloud resources using infrastructure as code, such as Terraform, Bicep or ARM templates, with structured Resource Groups aligned to Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework governance.
• Perform regular health checks, administrative oversight and capacity monitoring for Power Apps environments, Power Automate flows and custom connections integrated with Azure platform services.
• Establish curated Azure Deployment Environments and self-service infrastructure blueprints for Development, Applications and wider IT teams.
• Configure monitoring, observability, log aggregation and operational metrics using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics and Application Insights.
• Work with Infrastructure, Applications and Security Architects to ensure systems follow Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery guidelines, with documented plans reviewed and tested regularly.
• Act as a third-level escalation point for IT Operations, troubleshooting cloud infrastructure issues and working with vendor partners to maintain service levels and resolve complex problems.
• Develop and maintain platform standards, guardrails, runbooks, architectural documentation, operational guides and knowledge articles for Azure cloud services.
• Contribute to the future CI/CD and pipeline strategy, including roadmap definition, reusable deployment patterns and operational handover requirements.
• Support change management, incident resolution, problem management, service improvement and other ad hoc cloud platform projects as required.

Skills

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