Azure Platform Engineer

Salary: £60,000 - 84,000 per year

Requirements

• Strong Azure engineering background across IaaS, PaaS, and cloud-native services.
• Expertise with Terraform, Bicep/ARM, and IaC best practices.
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps (pipelines, repos, release).
• Knowledge of Azure networking, security, and Entra ID.
• Experience with Kubernetes / AKS and container architectures.
• Exposure to Hybrid and Edge solutions.
• Experience with Azure Foundry or AI platform services (highly desirable).
• Understanding of enabling AI/ML workloads on Azure (highly desirable).
• Ability to integrate AI services into cloud platforms via IaC and DevOps (highly desirable).
• Familiarity with MLOps concepts and AI governance (highly desirable).

Responsibilities

• Engineer secure Azure environments using IaC (Terraform, Bicep).
• Deliver Azure Landing Zones aligned to CAF & Well-Architected Framework.
• Build and scale cloud platforms supporting AI/ML workloads and Azure Foundry services.
• Implement automation across CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.
• Support cloud migrations and hybrid/edge deployments.
• Design cloud-native solutions including AKS and containerized workloads.
• Embed governance, security, and compliance across platform designs.

Technologies

• AI
• ARM
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• IaaS
• Support
• Kubernetes
• PaaS
• Security
• Terraform

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We are a telecommunications client looking for an experienced Azure Platform Engineer to support the delivery of secure, scalable, and automated cloud platforms across Azure Public Cloud, Hybrid, and Edge environments. This contract role, lasting 3-6 months, is remote with occasional travel to Newbury. We focus heavily on Azure Foundry, Infrastructure-as-Code, and Cloud Platform Engineering, and we offer competitive market rates for this position.

last updated 14 week of 2026