Senior Azure Platform Engineer

Our client provides other businesses with unparalleled access to the leading digital minds of our time this company believes technology is fundamentally about people. They have aided major financial institutions in their digital evolutions and proudly collaborate with renowned bluechip firms.

The company is looking for a seasoned Azure platform engineer to implement enhance and maintain the ODP (One Data Platform) Azure infrastructure templates. The potential individual will use their Azure knowledge to develop and implement fixes and improve the IDX Azure templates. You ll work with the data platform lead and business unit engineers to implement upgrades and develop the product backlog.

• Lead teams to identify categorise prioritise and analyse data and information to build cloud migration action plans and solution architectures
  
• Building of bicep templates to enable the IDX template roadmap and data strategy
  
• Automate deployments and configurations where possible. Perform audits of deployments and configurations
  
• Create DevOps efficiencies where possible using a combination of thirdparty SaaS and PaaS products and customdeveloped tools
  
• Create and manage observability processes and protocols for Azure workloads including thresholds triggers action groups ticketing system and webhook integrations. Monitor troubleshoot maintain and report metrics on service and application issues (uptime redundancy latency traffic error rates saturation performance usage etc.)
  
• Designing Azure templates and components to deploy datarelated Azure technologies
  
• Debugging of deployment issues and business unit issues resulting from template upgrades
  
• Designing template upgrade paths to ensure all business units can run and maintain the latest version of the IDX templates aligned to the product roadmap
  
• Translating architecture designs into technical implementations
  
• Playing a supporting and mentoring role to junior Azure platform engineers
  
• Defining upgrade paths between template versions
  
• Maintaining IDX template versioning logs
  
• Performance and cost optimisation
  
• Develop implement and maintain relevant documentation guidelines checklists and policies to promote continuous integration ensure and improve data security and reduce the possibility of "human error"
  

Requirements

What it takes to succeed:

• Bachelors degree in computer science or related field from an accredited university or equivalent work experience
  
• Microsoft Azure certifications or equivalent work experience: AZ900 (Azure Fundamentals) certification AZ104 (Azure Administrator) certification AZ305 (Azure Solutions Architect Expert) certification AZ700 (Azure Networking Associate) certification
  
• Knowledge of distributed data mesh deployment methodology
  
• 6 years of experience as an Azure platform engineer
  
• Thorough understanding of Azure bicep templates for automating the deployment of Azure DevOps Azure Functions Azure Web Apps Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse studio C# Python and TSQL
  
• Experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scripting and automation via Azure CLI PowerShell Bash Bicep and JSON ARM and Bicep templates
  
• An understanding of Agile methodologies
  
• Knowledge of systems development project management approaches