Principal Azure Platform Engineer - 9-month contract - London (2 days a week on site) - £800 per day (Inside IR35 Umbrella)
Azure/Kubernetes/AKS
Our client is a well-known and dynamic financial services consultancy, currently engaged with a large merchant bank to support an exciting project to build and modernise a strategic cloud engineering platform, supporting the migration from Legacy infrastructure, enabling modern application delivery
Key Skills/Responsibilities
- Strong Azure engineering experience, particularly networking, connectivity and platform services
- Proven delivery experience with AKS/Kubernetes
- Strong knowledge of Azure API Management (APIM)
- Infrastructure as Code and automated cloud provisioning
- CI/CD, GitLab and DevSecOps integration
- Experience migrating workloads from AWS and/or on-premise environments into Azure
- Microsoft Entra ID identity and access management
- Ability to operate at Senior/Principal Engineer level and deliver production-ready solutions
- Design and build secure, scalable Azure platform services
- Lead Azure networking and external boundary design
- Build and operate AKS environments
- Implement and integrate Azure API Management
- Support migration and decommissioning of AWS, IBM and on-prem infrastructure
- Drive automation, security and cloud best practices across the platform