Azure vPlatform Engineer
Location: London – Hybrid (1 day per week in office)
Salary: £50,000 – £60,000 + Excellent Benefits
Overview
We are partnering with an industry‑leading organisation undergoing an exciting period of transformation and modernisation. Based in central London, they are seeking a skilled Platform Engineer to help shape, build, and evolve their cloud‑native infrastructure. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a collaborative engineering culture where high standards, autonomy, and continuous improvement are genuinely valued.
Key Responsibilities
• Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure with Azure, with a strong understanding of architectural reasoning—not just implementation.
• Develop reliable automation and tooling using Python or Bash, producing code suitable for peer review and long‑term maintainability.
• Manage and troubleshoot Linux systems at the OS level, diagnosing issues methodically without reliance on GUIs.
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi, with a focus on reusable, modular, well‑structured patterns.
• Own and optimise cloud networking components including VPCs, subnets, routing, DNS, security groups, and load balancers.
• Build meaningful observability using CloudWatch, Grafana, or Prometheus—creating dashboards that surface real issues, not vanity metrics.
• Apply strong Git practices within a team environment, including branching strategies, PR reviews, and clean commit hygiene.
• Manage IAM (AWS) or Service Principals (Azure) with a least‑privilege mindset baked into every design.
• Implement secure secrets management using tools such as AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault, or Azure Key Vault.
About You
You’ll thrive in this role if you bring:
• Solid experience across core cloud services (Compute, Networking, Storage, IAM, Serverless).
• Practical sysadmin knowledge and an understanding of what’s happening beneath cloud abstractions.
• A methodical, engineering‑led approach to debugging and problem‑solving.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a collaborative, supportive, and fun team environment.
Next Steps
If you’re interested in exploring this opportunity further, please send your CV for a confidential conversation