Senior Consultant, M365 Cloud Engineer

Job summary

The Microsoft 365 Cloud Engineer will join the digital workplace team as a trusted technical authority within a UK-sovereign delivery environment. This role supports the secure operation, administration, configuration, and ongoing enhancement of the cloud-native Microsoft 365 platform, Azure services, and wider application ecosystem. The engineer will work closely with senior technical colleagues to ensure the cloud environment remains secure, resilient, and optimized for a modern digital workplace.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience with Microsoft 365 technology stack.
• Desire to contribute to a small, agile, security-focused engineering team.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience administering Microsoft 365 services including Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Intune, and Entra ID.
• Solid understanding of Azure administration covering compute (AVD), storage, virtual networking, and identity management.
• Relevant Microsoft certifications (AZ900, AZ104, MS900, PL900) or a degree in Information Technology or related discipline.
• Practical experience implementing RBAC, conditional access, least-privilege models, and governance controls across M365 and Azure.
• Competent in supporting and enhancing Power Platform solutions (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Pages).
• Working knowledge of cloud operations, including monitoring, incident response, optimization, and service health management (Sentinal, Azure Monitor, basic KQL).
• Familiarity with ALM principles, Git-based version control, and CI/CD pipelines for Power Platform or Azure.
• Understanding of security best practices in cloud environments, including compliance, data protection, and threat mitigation.
• Ability to interpret and follow architectural guidance from senior engineers.
• Strong adaptability and time-management skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a small, high-trust team.
• Proven ability to present complex information clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and willingness to learn new technologies.
• Experience managing or supporting deployments of RIB software (e.g., CostX) or other industry-standard applications (e.g., Primavera P6).
• Background in 2nd/3rd line support within Microsoft focused environments (desirable).
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks (NCSC, ISO 27001, Defstan).
• Familiarity or experience with infrastructure as code tooling (Terraform, Open Tofu).
• Exposure to information protection, DLP, or collaboration barrier configurations.

Responsibilities

• Support secure operation, administration, configuration, and enhancement of Microsoft 365 platform and Azure services.
• Ensure cloud environment is secure, resilient, and optimized for digital workplace.
• Administer Microsoft 365 services.
• Manage Exchange, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Intune, and Entra ID identity governance.
• Maintain governance and access control.
• Contribute to permission design, RBAC structures, and least-privilege configurations.
• Support deployment and configuration of Azure infrastructure components (compute, storage, identity, networking, app services).
• Assist with cloud compute operations, monitoring, and optimization using Azure Monitor and Log Analytics.
• Perform endpoint management with Intune.
• Support and enhance Power Apps (canvas apps), Power Automate workflows, and Power BI dashboards.
• Assist with user support via service desk tickets.

Skills

Security clearance

Relocation