Computacenter AG & Co. oHG
Principal Azure Consultant
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Location: UK - London, UK - Birmingham, UK - Edinburgh, UK - Hatfield, UK - Manchester, UK - Milton Keynes, UK - Nottingham, UK - Reading | Job-ID: 219614 | Contract type: Standard | Business Unit: IT Consulting
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This is an exciting opportunity to work with some of the UK's largest organisations, shaping cloud strategies, influencing solution design, and delivering modern Azure platforms that enable business transformation. You'll combine deep technical expertise with customer-facing consultancy, acting as a trusted advisor throughout the full project lifecycle.
You’ll be joining Computacenter’s Global Professional Services organisation, a community of over 5,000 consultants, architects, engineers, and project professionals delivering complex technology solutions across the world.
As part of our Azure Practice, you’ll work alongside industry-leading cloud specialists, architects, delivery teams, and strategic technology partners. You'll help shape cloud strategy, contribute to innovative service offerings, and work with leading technologies across Azure, DevOps, Automation, and Kubernetes.
What you'll do
- Lead customer engagements, providing expert Azure consultancy throughout the solution lifecycle
- Shape and influence Azure solutions during pre-sales activities, workshops, and technical discussions
- Design and implement scalable, secure, and resilient Azure platforms aligned to industry best practices
- Provide technical governance, assurance, and quality control across pre-sales and project delivery engagements
- Define standards, blueprints, and reusable patterns for Azure-based solutions
- Collaborate within agile delivery teams to design, implement, and optimise cloud solutions
- Present technical solutions to customers and stakeholders at both technical and executive levels
- Identify technical and business risks and provide recommendations to ensure successful outcomes
- Mentor consultants and engineers while contributing to the growth of the Azure Practice
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What you'll need
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Extensive experience designing and delivering Microsoft Azure solutions
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Azure certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Administrator Associate, and/or Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
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Strong experience supporting pre-sales engagements and shaping customer requirements
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Expertise across Azure infrastructure, networking, security, governance, automation, and cloud migration
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Strong understanding of:
- Azure Cloud Adoption Framework
- Enterprise Scale Landing Zones (ALZ)
- Well-Architected Framework
- FinOps and Cost Optimisation
- Operational Resilience
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Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation tools including Terraform, Bicep, Ansible, PowerShell, and Python
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Knowledge of Azure DevOps, GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, and platform automation
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Experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and container-based platforms
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Strong communication skills with the ability to engage technical teams, business stakeholders, and customer leadership
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Experience delivering cloud solutions within agile environments
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Experience with technologies such as Azure Virtual Desktop, Azure Local, Azure Sovereign Cloud, ServiceNow, Dynatrace, Datadog, Splunk, Zscaler, Palo Alto, or cloud cost optimisation tools would be advantageous.
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If you're looking for a role where you can combine deep Azure expertise, customer engagement, and technical leadership while helping organisations accelerate their cloud transformation journeys, we'd love to hear from you.
About us
Computacenter is a leading independent provider of IT infrastructure services, with about 21,000 employees worldwide. We work at the heart of digitisation, advising organisations on IT strategy, implementing the most appropriate technology and managing our customers’ infrastructures.
We offer a friendly, open working environment without too much fuss about hierarchy. We are looking for professionals with diverse competencies, personalities and strengths who want to live our shared value of teamwork and performance.
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