Senior Azure Engineer
Posted 1 day ago by djr
£68 Per hour
Outside
Remote
England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior Azure Engineer role involves working on high-load microservices within a technology-led organization focused on regulated sectors. The position emphasizes performance optimization and system scalability, requiring expertise in Azure technologies and .NET development. The role is primarily remote with occasional travel to London and is outside IR35. Candidates will be responsible for building and optimizing microservices that interact with time-series data stores.
Key Responsibilities:
- Building and optimising high-throughput microservices in .NET 6+
- Working with Azure Data Explorer (ADX) / Kusto (or similar time-series databases)
- Designing ingestion pipelines and optimising query performance
- Deploying containerised services into AKS
- Implementing caching strategies and retention policies
- Improving system scalability under heavy load patterns
Key Skills:
- Proficiency in C# / .NET 6+
- Experience with microservices architecture
- Familiarity with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Knowledge of Azure Data Explorer (ADX) / KQL
- Experience with Docker
- Understanding of Azure Service Bus / Functions / Storage
Salary (Rate): £68.00/hr
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Senior Azure Engineer – Contract Up to £550/day Mostly Remote (Occasional London travel) 4 Months Outside IR35
We’re supporting a technology-led organisation delivering high-availability, data-intensive systems in regulated sectors. They are looking for 2 x Senior Azure Engineers to work on high-load microservices interacting with time-series data stores. This is a performance-focused, distributed systems role, not a web app dev position.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Building and optimising high-throughput microservices in .NET 6+
- Working with Azure Data Explorer (ADX) / Kusto (or similar time-series databases)
- Designing ingestion pipelines and optimising query performance
- Deploying containerised services into AKS
- Implementing caching strategies and retention policies
- Improving system scalability under heavy load patterns
Tech Environment
- C# / .NET 6+
- Microservices architecture
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Azure Data Explorer (ADX) / KQL
- Docker
- Azure Service Bus / Functions / Storage
You’ll need to be comfortable working on systems that operate at scale, where performance and optimisation genuinely matter. If you enjoy solving throughput problems and tuning distributed systems - this is for you.