Senior Platform Azure Engineer
Posted 1 week ago by Prism Digital
£85 Per hour
Outside
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior Platform Engineer will join a new Cloud Platform Engineering team to build a greenfield Azure platform for a regulated banking venture. This role focuses on high-risk platform engineering work, emphasizing technical leadership through code and design execution rather than people management. The engineer will be responsible for delivering complex infrastructure solutions and enhancing platform services in a regulated financial environment. Opportunities for permanent positions and contract extensions are available.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own and deliver the highest-risk, most complex or ambiguous platform work
- Build and enhance Azure landing zones and internal platform services
- Deliver infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, self-service tooling and observability end-to-end
- Challenge design assumptions with a “show me the code” approach
- Pair with engineers to unblock delivery and lift team-wide engineering standards
Key Skills:
- 8+ years infrastructure engineering in Azure environments
- Terraform expertise at scale: modules, composition, patterns and anti-patterns
- Strong Azure networking, security and governance knowledge
- Experience in regulated environments (FS, healthcare, government, etc.)
- CI/CD and automation experience (Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions, scripting)
- Ability to troubleshoot complex infra, identity, networking and security issues
- TDD/automated testing for infrastructure changes
- Experience mentoring and guiding other engineers
Salary (Rate): £85.00/hr
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Senior Platform Engineer | Azure, Terraform, CI/CD | Bank-Grade Cloud Platform Build
£600–£650 p/d (Outside IR35)
5-month initial contract (extensions likely)
Hybrid: London (2 days/week on-site)
Opportunity to be perm is available also.
The Role
Join a newly formed Cloud Platform Engineering team building a greenfield Azure platform for a regulated banking venture. You’ll join as a senior individual contributor, taking ownership of the most complex, high-risk platform engineering work across a large Azure estate in a regulated financial services environment. This is not a people management role — you’ll lead through your code, your technical judgement, and your ability to turn ambitious platform designs into secure, scalable, production-ready infrastructure.
You will:
- Own and deliver the highest-risk, most complex or ambiguous platform work
- Build and enhance Azure landing zones and internal platform services
- Deliver infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD , self-service tooling and observability end-to-end
- Challenge design assumptions with a “show me the code” approach
- Pair with engineers to unblock delivery and lift team-wide engineering standards
Non-Negotiables:
- 8+ years infrastructure engineering in Azure environments
- Terraform expertise at scale: modules, composition, patterns and anti-patterns
- Strong Azure networking, security and governance knowledge
- Experience in regulated environments (FS, healthcare, government, etc.)
- CI/CD and automation experience (Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions, scripting)
- Ability to troubleshoot complex infra, identity, networking and security issues
- TDD/automated testing for infrastructure changes
- Experience mentoring and guiding other engineers
What You’ll Work With:
- Terraform: modular IaC, policy integration, testing and validation
- Azure Core: networking, security, identity, governance, landing zones
- Azure PaaS: App Service, Functions, container platforms (ACA/AKS)
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps with full automation
- Observability: logging, metrics, dashboards and alerting
- Incident Response: diagnosing and resolving complex platform issues
Why Join:
- Shape a secure, scalable Azure platform in a regulated financial services environment
- Own complex landing zones and platform capabilities that have organisation-wide impact
- Influence engineering standards, patterns and delivery practices
- Work in a collaborative, Kanban-driven team focused on high-quality delivery
- Lead through hands-on engineering, pairing and code reviews — not hierarchy
If you enjoy solving deep technical problems, shipping high-quality infrastructure, and elevating engineering teams through hands-on expertise, this role will suit you perfectly.
Senior Platform Engineer | Azure, Terraform, CI/CD | Bank-Grade Cloud Platform Build