Job description
Project overview
Azure Platform Engineer
£530 per day - Inside IR35
Sheffield - 3 days a week on site
3 months initially
Key Skills & Requirements
Please apply with your up to date CV, no sponsorship offered.
- Strong hands-on experience engineering and supporting Azure platforms at scale, including compute, storage, networking, identity, governance, RBAC, managed identities, ARM, and Azure Policy.
- Expert-level PowerShell automation experience, developing reusable modules, tooling, testing frameworks, and automation used across production environments.
- Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Bicep, or ARM, including CI/CD pipeline integration, code reviews, module design, and state management.
- Proven background managing Azure VM image build and release processes, including Azure Image Builder, Packer, Shared Image Gallery, patching, hardening, versioning, and deployment automation.
- Strong knowledge of Azure Networking, including VNets, NSGs, Private Endpoints, DNS, load balancing, routing, traffic management, and hybrid connectivity.
- Experience implementing and responding to Azure governance and compliance controls, assessing policy impacts, remediating non-compliance, and ensuring estate-wide adherence to security standards.
- Ability to troubleshoot and lead resolution of complex production issues across infrastructure, network, and application layers, acting as an escalation point for technical teams.
- Desirable experience with Azure Landing Zones, Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions, Entra ID, Azure Policy authoring, enterprise-scale architecture, regulated environments, and Azure certifications such as AZ-104, AZ-305, or AZ-400.
Project details
- Start: flexible
- Location: Sheffield, Yorkshire and Humberside, GB, GB
- Rate: 63-66 EUR/h
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