Senior Azure Engineer

📋 Job Overview

We’re on a mission to close the world’s tech skills gap. We help organisations navigate the future of technology, combining human expertise, emerging tech and AI to deliver better outcomes, faster. As a Senior Azure cloud engineer, you will be a specialist in your team, building scalable cloud solutions to solve a variety of problems.

🏢 About AND Digital

Since 2014, we’ve worked side-by-side with clients to solve complex challenges, build high-performing teams, and create lasting capability. We believe the most successful organisations will be those that combine the best of both: human ingenuity AND intelligent technology. This belief is embedded in everything we do, which we call the genius of the AND: deep expertise AND practical delivery, innovation AND responsibility, ambitious work AND sustainable careers. Through our Guide, Build and Equip approach, we help organisations embrace change, deliver meaningful impact, and develop the skills they need to thrive in an increasingly agentic world.

🎯 The Role

You care deeply about producing high-quality work that delivers real value. You’re comfortable navigating ambiguity and solving complex problems collaboratively. You bring strong expertise in your craft, alongside a willingness to keep learning. You communicate clearly and build trust quickly with clients and teammates. You’re pragmatic, adaptable and outcome-focused. You enjoy sharing knowledge and helping others grow. You value low-ego collaboration and enjoy working as part of multidisciplinary teams.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Have solid experience of managing and deploying production services in Azure covering all aspects of service delivery such as architecture design, infrastructure provisioning (IaC), CI/CD pipeline automation, high availability, monitoring, security, and cost optimization.
• Build and maintain an IaC codebase using tools such as Terraform, Powershell and Azure Devops. You will understand Cloud & DevOps best practices and standards, and embed these into client projects.
• Be comfortable discussing the business/commercial benefits of Cloud whilst being equally comfortable deep diving into Cloud or on-premise platform configurations where required.
• Demonstrable knowledge of AI models and agent implementation using Microsoft Foundry
• Be just as comfortable troubleshooting across brownfield platform and application domains, as when designing greenfield cloud platforms.
• Have an ability to horizon scan and evaluate new technology options and vendor products and understand how these can be used to solve our clients problems.
• Sharing your skills and experience by being an advocate for mentoring and upskilling of client and other ANDi’s as part of day-to-day activities
• Have experience in leading technical teams
• Show previous experience in a DevOps or platform engineering role
• Have led or worked in a Continuous Integration or Continuous Delivery environment.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Solid understanding and experience of:
• On-premises legacy systems to be integrated with, e.g., Active Directory, DNS, Certificate Management, SQL Server, Windows Server
• Networking in Azure (Azure Firewall, ExpressRoute, DNS Zones, VNet planning, routing and peering)
• Public networking including public DNS and working with public Certificate Authorities.
• On-premise networking including routing and firewalls
• Azure Front Door and API Management including VNet Integration
• Azure App Services and Function Apps including VNet Integration
• Maximising security of services exposed publicly (Web Application Firewalls etc) and implementing monitoring and alerting
• Deployment and ongoing management of Azure resources using Terraform and Azure DevOps pipelines
• Working with application developers and third parties collaboratively to develop ideas, test with PoCs, assist with troubleshooting

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Ideal Certifications:
• Azure Administrator Associate
• Azure Network Engineer Associate
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• (Azure) DevOps Engineer Expert

🎁 Benefits

25 days bookable holiday + flexible Bank Holidays
Pension: 6% of salary paid by AND Digital with a further 2% paid by you (can be increased by choice).
Aviva healthcare cover (including pre-existing condition cover) for you.
Flexibenefit: £1000 assigned to you via our benefits portal to select or upgrade the benefits that suit you the most. Any unused allowance from the £1000 can be taken as cash.
Life Assurance.
Income Protection.
Eye test + first pair of glasses.
Parental Benefits: Generous Enhanced Maternity and Enhanced Partner (Paternity) Leave.

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