Azure Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer (Azure)

Bedford (Hybrid)
£450–£525 per day - Outside IR35

Are you an experienced Azure Platform Engineer looking to help shape the cloud platform behind a market-leading software product?

We're working with an innovative software company looking for a Platform Engineer to take ownership of their Azure environment, ensuring it's secure, scalable and resilient. You'll play a key role in maintaining and evolving the cloud platform that supports their product engineering teams, enabling them to deliver new features quickly and reliably.

This is an opportunity to join a collaborative engineering team where platform, automation and cloud best practice are at the heart of everything they do.

What you'll be doing:

  • Design, build and maintain the Azure platform.
  • Drive platform automation and Infrastructure as Code.
  • Manage cloud networking, identity, security and governance.
  • Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
  • Monitor platform health, performance and availability.
  • Optimise cloud infrastructure for resilience, scalability and cost.
  • Work closely with development teams to provide a reliable, secure and high-performing platform.
  • Champion cloud best practice and continuous improvement.

What we're looking for:

  • Strong commercial experience with Microsoft Azure.
  • Experience building and supporting enterprise Azure platforms.
  • Infrastructure as Code experience, ideally Terraform or Bicep.
  • Experience with Azure DevOps and CI/CD.
  • Strong understanding of networking, identity and security within Azure.
  • Experience with monitoring, observability and platform performance.
  • Passion for automation and modern platform engineering.
  • Previous experience supporting SaaS or software product environments would be advantageous.

If you are keen APPLY NOW.

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