Azure Principal Platform Engineer - UK

Job Overview

Appvia is seeking an Azure Principal Platform Engineer to guide customers towards Cloud and DevOps excellence. This role involves designing and implementing scalable, resilient, and secure platforms while leading strategic initiatives aligned with customer objectives. The position offers an opportunity to technically lead a team of cloud consultants and drive the establishment of Appvia's internal solutions team.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with prospective and existing customers to define and execute strategies for cloud and DevOps adoption.


• Educate customers and industry stakeholders on the benefits and best practices of cloud-native technologies.


• Lead large, complex public cloud projects, providing strategic direction and selecting appropriate technologies.


• Manage teams of platform engineers and consultants, fostering a positive and collaborative team culture.


• Engage with enterprise clients to understand their unique challenges and deliver tailored solutions.


• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and emerging technologies, contributing to industry knowledge sharing through blog posts and videos.

Required Qualifications

• Platform Engineering: Mastery of designing and implementing (hands-on) scalable, resilient, and secure platforms.


• Automation: Expertise in infrastructure-as-code (IaC) practices, automation tools (e.g., Terraform) and scripting languages (e.g. Python, Ruby).


• Container Orchestration: In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with Kubernetes and its managed counterparts (AKS).


• Public Cloud Expertise: In-depth knowledge of Azure services, architecture, landing zones and best practices.


• DevOps Mastery: Excellent knowledge of CI/CD, containerization, and serverless technologies.


• Real-world design and governance experience, particularly with: Conditional Access, Identity lifecycle and PIM, Entra ID Protection and integration with Defender or Sentinel.

About Appvia

At Appvia, we're committed to helping our customers navigate their journey to Cloud and DevOps maturity. As a leading provider in the industry, we offer cutting-edge technologies and services to support our clients' cloud adoption journey. Our mission is to enable every company to deliver apps in the cloud. We dedicate ourselves to building a cloud infrastructure layer that allows platform engineering teams to manage, monitor and update with ease - at the same time, offering devs the flexibility to deploy their apps in the cloud without a hassle. We are passionate about driving value to our clients and have a desire to make their organisation succeed.

Benefits

Why join Appvia? We are a self-funded, London based startup; providing businesses with a fast and secure way to deploy containerised applications into the cloud. We are on a mission to enable organisations to make cloud-based software delivery simple and efficient, whilst having the insights into costs, security and cadence. As a company that holds customers at the heart of everything we do, we are looking for candidates that want to make a real change to how Dev and Ops is working in the industry. With us our customers, like the UK’s Home Office & Bank of England, are harnessing cloud-native technologies, limiting the challenges of infrastructure management and rapidly delivering digital products.