Senior Azure Platform Engineer, £650 per day inside IR35
Posted 1 week ago by Bench IT Limited
£650 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
London, UK
Summary: The Senior Azure Platform Engineer role involves managing and overseeing cloud infrastructure within a large organization, focusing on MS Azure. The position requires significant hands-on experience and expertise in cloud architecture, automation, and security best practices. The successful candidate will work in a hybrid model, spending three days a week in London and the remainder remotely. This is a six-month initial contract with an immediate start date.
Key Responsibilities:
- Cloud Infrastructure Management: Oversee provisioning, configuration and management of all cloud infrastructure resources (Compute, Network & Storage) in Azure, AWS etc ensuring efficiently, securely, and remaining cost-effective.
- Lead the implementation of cloud-based solutions & support migration of Legacy applications into Cloud, ensuring minimal downtime and disruption.
- Provide guidance and mentorship to team members, ensuring high levels of collaboration and productivity.
- Security & Compliance: Ensure cloud infrastructure adheres to industry best practices for security, data protection, and compliance (eg, NIST ISO, GDPR, etc).
- Provide periodic reports on cloud costs, usage patterns, and opportunities for optimisation.
- Ensure that cloud infrastructure aligns with business goals, objectives, and future growth.
- Act as an escalation point for Cloud infrastructure incidents/issues to oversee troubleshooting, incident management, and problem resolution related to cloud infrastructure.
Key Skills:
- SME for MS Azure Platform.
- Proven experience in managing cloud infrastructure, with significant hands-on experience in MS Azure (must have).
- Strong understanding of MS Azure cloud architecture, services, automation, and security best practices to contribute to the long-term cloud strategy, including architecture design, future scalability, and innovation.
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.).
- Experience with DevOps tools and practices (CI/CD, automation, containerization, etc.).
- Knowledge/experience of AWS as a secondary cloud technology is desirable.
- Experience with hybrid cloud solutions and multi-cloud environments.
- Solid understanding of networking, virtualization, storage, and compute in cloud environments.
Salary (Rate): £650 per day
City: London
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Senior Azure Platform Engineer, £650 per day inside IR35
6 month initial contract, London
Bench IT require an experienced Senior Azure Platform Engineer to join a large organisation starting ASAP working hybrid 3 days per week in London with the remaining time working remotely. The successful Consultant should have the skills and experience included below.
The successful candidate should have the skills and experience included below.
Technical skills:
- SME for MS Azure Platform.
- Proven experience in managing cloud infrastructure, with significant hands-on experience in MS Azure (must have).
- Strong understanding of MS Azure cloud architecture, services, automation, and security best practices to contribute to the long-term cloud strategy, including architecture design, future scalability, and innovation.
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.).
- Experience with DevOps tools and practices (CI/CD, automation, containerization, etc.).
- Knowledge/experience of AWS as a secondary cloud technology is desirable.
- Experience with hybrid cloud solutions and multi-cloud environments.
- Solid understanding of networking, virtualization, storage, and compute in cloud environments.
Responsibilities:
- Cloud Infrastructure Management: Oversee provisioning, configuration and management of all cloud infrastructure resources (Compute, Network & Storage) in Azure, AWS etc ensuring efficiently, securely, and remaining cost-effective.
- Lead the implementation of cloud-based solutions & support migration of Legacy applications into Cloud, ensuring minimal downtime and disruption.
- Provide guidance and mentorship to team members, ensuring high levels of collaboration and productivity.
- Security & Compliance: Ensure cloud infrastructure adheres to industry best practices for security, data protection, and compliance (eg, NIST ISO, GDPR, etc).
- Provide periodic reports on cloud costs, usage patterns, and opportunities for optimisation.
- Ensure that cloud infrastructure aligns with business goals, objectives, and future growth.
- Act as an escalation point for Cloud infrastructure incidents/issues to oversee troubleshooting, incident management, and problem resolution related to cloud infrastructure.
Senior Azure Platform Engineer, £650 per day inside IR35
6 month initial contract, London