- Escritório em Thame
Description
Azure Platform Engineer (IC2)
Location: Remote/Hybrid (Monthly attendance to our Head Office: Thame, Oxfordshire)
About the Role
We’re looking for an Azure Platform Engineer (IC2) to join our growing platform engineering team. This is a hands-on role where you’ll contribute to building and operating a shared Azure platform that enables engineering teams to develop, deploy, and run applications efficiently.
Working alongside experienced engineers, you’ll develop your skills in platform engineering, infrastructure as code, and cloud-native technologies, helping to drive automation, standardisation, and improved developer experience across the organisation.
This role is ideal for someone with solid Azure foundations who is looking to take the next step into platform engineering.
What You'll Be Doing
Platform Engineering
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of our Azure platform
- Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Bicep, and ARM
- Support the creation of reusable modules, templates, and standard patterns
- Follow established platform standards and best practices
- Help improve developer workflows and deployment processes
- Contribute to platform templates and “golden paths”
- Support documentation and guidance for platform users
- Assist engineering teams in adopting platform capabilities
- Support core Azure services including App Services, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Storage, Service Bus, and Redis
- Assist in the operation and maintenance of AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service)
- Apply standard configurations for networking and security
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions)
- Follow established deployment patterns
- Help automate repeatable processes and tasks
- Apply cloud security best practices under guidance
- Use Azure RBAC and Key Vault appropriately
- Support monitoring, logging, and troubleshooting activities
- Assist in maintaining platform reliability and availability
- Work closely with engineering teams to support platform usage
- Collaborate with senior engineers on improvements and initiatives
- Actively learn, seek feedback, and contribute to team knowledge
Developer Experience (DevEx)
Azure & Kubernetes
CI/CD & Automation
Security & Reliability
Collaboration & Learning
What We’re Looking For
Core Experience
- Hands-on experience working with Microsoft Azure in a commercial environment
- Experience deploying infrastructure using IaC (Terraform, Bicep, or ARM)
- Experience working with CI/CD pipelines
- Exposure to containers and Kubernetes (AKS preferred)
- Experience managing IaaS environments (build, deploy, patch, maintain)
- Understanding of cloud networking fundamentals
- Familiarity with Azure services and platform tooling
- Awareness of monitoring and logging tools
- Basic understanding of cloud security principles
- Understanding of platform engineering concepts (automation, reuse, standardisation)
- Ability to follow established patterns and best practices
- Willingness to learn and continuously improve
- Experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Background in a DevOps or cloud engineering environment
- Experience with PowerShell scripting
- Problem Solving: Analytical mindset with the ability to troubleshoot effectively
- Communication: Clear and concise communication within technical teams
- Collaboration: Works well with others and is open to feedback
- Adaptability: Comfortable learning new tools and technologies
- Growth Mindset: Eager to develop skills and progress within platform engineering
Technical Skills
Engineering Approach
Core Competencies
What Success Looks Like
Additional Information
- Annual Leave: 25 days per year (Jan-Dec), increasing to 27 days after 5 years, plus Bank Holidays (pro-rata for part-time).
- Annual Leave Purchase: Option to purchase up to 1 working week of additional leave.
- Wellness Days: 4 paid days per year to rest and recharge (pro-rata for part-time). We kindly ask you take 1 per quarter.
- Paid Volunteer Day: 1 paid day per year to volunteer at a charity of your choice.
- Pension scheme (Aviva): 6% employer contribution, 4% employee contribution.
- Life Assurance: 4x basic salary.
- Health Flex Pot via Benifex: – £800 flexible benefit to spend on health options of your choice, including: Private Health Insurance / Health Cash Plan / Dental Plan / Health Assessments.
- Additional Benifex perks: Voluntary opt-in for additional benefits including Activity Pass, discounts via Perkbox, Beauty and Fitness Discount Card, Cycle to Work, Motor Breakdown, Will Writing, or enhance your cover of benefits provided by company.
- Critical Illness Cover: 1x basic salary.
- Group-wide Equity Plan: Eligibility for participation in our Group-wide employee share plan, subject to annual invitation.
- Enhanced Maternity/Adoption Pay: Up to 20 weeks full pay. Enhanced Paternity Pay: Up to 4 weeks full pay.
- Performance-based Incentive Scheme: Eligibility for a discretionary Short Term Incentive plan, based on job role and level.
- Learning & Development: Access to LinkedIn Learning, reimbursement of your professional membership costs.
- Additional: Access to our Employee Assistance Programme and wellbeing resources, eye test vouchers and VDU glasses contribution.
- Office Space: Use of our PEXA office workspaces in Leeds and Thame. Our new Leeds office is in West Village, managed by Bruntwood SciTech and allows you access to Bruntwood hosted local events.