Azure Platform Engineer

Job reference - 338

Location - WORK FROM HOME (You must be already living in the UK to be considered for this opportunity).

Salary - £58,000

Job type - Permanent

Working Hours - Mon - Fri

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an Azure Platform Engineer to join a well-established organisation that puts its staff first.

Key skills required for an Azure Platform Engineer:

• Architectural experience of back-office applications and their design, including extension and expansion through integrations

• Strong experience with Azure cloud infrastructure services including but not limited to AKS, App Services, Application Gateways, Azure Cognitive Services, Event Grid, Virtual Machines and Networking

• Strong experience of DevOps environments, scripting and automation (Infrastructure as Code), with skills in Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes and Helm

• Extensive background working in the IT industry Track record delivering and supporting mission critical, eBusiness applications

• Experience of source and version control tools, Azure DevOps

• Knowledge of SQL Database Automation and Automation Tools, Redgate SQL Suite

• Knowledge of the design for secure and maintainable web sites and web service applications, in a SOA environment

• Full development lifecycle experience, including implementation plans

Key responsibilities for an Azure Platform Engineer:

• Technically lead and deploy enterprise level cloud infrastructure solutions to achieve delivery of business objectives

• Ensure designs an appropriate architecture, in collaboration with development, infrastructure, security, databases, testing and the business

• Employ IaC (Infrastructure as Code) to automate architecture wherever possible. (Via Terraform)

• Provide technical design input for new and existing solutions and projects

• Communicate and disambiguate technical requirements when necessary

• Introduce, monitor and champion quality metrics within the department, e.g., unit test coverage

• Introduce procedures and automation to improve and measure quality, e.g., continuous integration and build

• Help identify and quantify risk factors for features and change

• Deployment of infrastructure via Terraform

• Database instance management and control, SQL and MongoDB Atlas

• Deployment of databases and copies of data, e.g., scripting to run and rollback database changes such as modifying tables, new records, etc via Redgate Tools

• Deployment of applications via CICD Pipelines in Azure DevOps

• Anonymisation of testing data

• Curate technical documentation

• Create and maintain metrics and progress for the other areas (automated wherever possible)

• Assist with technical proposals

So if you are an experienced Azure Platform Engineer with the above skills and looking to join a company that invests in personal development then please apply now.