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Azure Platform Engineer
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Azure Platform Engineer
Role at Fastest-Growing Technology Company in Scotland
My client, the fastest-growing technology company in Scotland, with plans to deploy and invest over £2 billion in the coming years, is seeking an early-stage candidate to build something from the ground up inside a fast-scaling business.
Role Overview
Selected to provide a managed Compute & Storage service for a public sector customer, transitioning from the incumbent provider. The Azure platform must be validated before go-live, document results in runbooks, and transition to BAU support. Scope includes:
- Validating the Azure platform for handover into BAU support, ensuring all issues are documented.
- Focus on verifying the Azure platform for ready-to-support, full compliance against defined standards.
Key Responsibilities
Valve Azure Infrastructure
Verify Azure infrastructure for service readiness. Review current Microsoft Azure infrastructure and services against:
- Resource organisation
- Governance and compliance
- Tagging
- Cost visibility
- Policy
- Access control
- Resilience
- Final assessment: Determine readiness for full support. Record undocumented dependency gaps for remediation.
Assess Hybrid Environments
- Audit integration points between Azure and on-premise platforms.
- Focus on overlapping elements (e.g., network, identity, storage reliability).
- Validate consistent, documented config standards. Document observed weaknesses for future remediation.
Review Azure ExpressRoute
- Audit existing ExpressRoute circuits for stability and operational visibility.
- Check key components: routing, peering configurations, resilience mechanisms.
- Ensure documentation exists to support ongoing managed operations.
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Identity and Networking Validation
- Assess integration of:
- Identity (Azure Entra ID / Active Directory, hybrid setups)
- Networking (vNets, peering, gateways, DNS)
- Security (Network Security Groups, AWS Conditional Access, firewalls)
- Validate against enterprise-scale operational standards.
Issue Diagnosis and Documentation
- Diagnose and record Azure-specific, platform or connectivity issues (not yet resolved).
- Document findings with actionable details, ensuring Isolation of faults per each component.
- Partner with network security teams when cross-platform Kerala owns issue.
Action Handover Preparation
- Curate a remediation track list containing:
- Context and priority level clarifications for each undocumented gap.
- Develop runbooks, support documentation, escalation paths and known-issue documentation.
- Lead structured handover to permanent operations team.
Required Experience
Core Specialisations
- Azure Architecture. Hands-on experience (not PoC-lab research) operating production-grade Microsoft Azure environments using VMs.
- Azure ExpressRoute. Hands-on configuration and stability monitoring of Azure ExpressRoute connectivity, end-to-end peering, routing tables (vs. simple circuit procurement).
- Azure Networking, Identity. Foundational knowledge of:
- Core Azure networking (subnet routing sharing peering signalling, policy, DNS management).
- Entra ID and Active Directory hybrid integration.
- Enterprise Infrastructure. Wintel / Linux / VMware ecosystem experience, understanding on-prem legacy environments.
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Detailed Subject Matter Expertise
Background scales across platform type, ensuring optimised Azite* commands and enablement.*
Desirable Experience
_(represents 2+ years’ expertise usually achieved)*
- Managed Services: Prior experience operating Azure platforms within managed environments where platforms fulfil bespoke scaling availability commitments (contract-grade support, SLAs).
- Data Centre Protocols: Familiarity with DC hybrid principles (e.g., Fortinet firewalls), Cisco DC architecture (ACI, Nexus).
- Service Transition. Track record of smooth handovers, remediation planning, runbook draft writing, and certification-transparent support team up/grading.
Certifications
(presumed, not mandatory)
- Preference for recent Microsoft Azure certifications (such as Azure Administrator or Solutions Architect).
- Practical industry experience is still differentiated from certs in assessment.
Contract Scope
This is an initial three-month contract with potential to extend. Immediate start recommended. Apply now.
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