Senior Azure Support Engineer

Senior Azure Support Engineer

• Location: Richmond-Upon-Thames
• This is a hybrid role.
• You must be British for Security Clearance reasons

We are hiring for a Senior Azure Support Engineer to join a growing business and be responsible for the maintenance and support of the Azure Cloud Environment that hosts SaaS web-based applications.

• The environment operates hundreds of Single Tenant (ST) and Multi-Tenant (MT) deployments across Azure, each with their own servers, database, and storage.
• This role exists to keep every deployment reliable resolving ensuring uptime and building automation.
• Investigating and fixing complex application and infrastructure issues.
• Monitoring capacity, performance, and error budgets across all deployments.
• Designing automation and tooling to improve reliability and reduce manual work.

Technical Skills required for the Senior Azure Support Engineer

• 3+ years in third-line support, SRE, or cloud operations for enterprise SaaS.
• Proven track record in incident resolution and root cause analysis.
• Experience working with both multi-tenant and single-tenant cloud architectures.
• Strong background in supporting C#/ .NET Core/ MVC web applications with SQL Server backends and Azure Blob Storage.
• Advanced Azure diagnostics (Application Insights, Log Analytics, Kusto Query Language).
• Proficient in SQL for investigation and remediation.
• Scripting and automation skills in PowerShell and/or C#.
• Understanding of Azure components: App Services, VMs, SQL DB, Blob Storage, scaling strategies.
• Experience in capacity planning, SLOs, and error budget management
• Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, Azure Data Explorer (KQL), Azure Functions, Logic Apps, PowerShell, C#, SQL Server Management Studio, Azure Storage Explorer, Power BI (for reporting).

The Senior Azure Support Engineer responsibilities and tasks:

• Monitor ST and MT environments for server performance, response times, error rates, etc.
• Detect and resolve database issues, stalled file processing, or misplaced storage objects.
• Use Azure diagnostics and telemetry to troubleshoot and resolve complex incidents.
• Provide third-line support for escalated customer cases, collaborating with development.
• Maintain uptime, performance, and scalability across all ST and MT deployments.
• Define and track service-level objectives (SLOs).
• Perform capacity planning for servers, databases, and storage, scaling resources.
• Identify systemic patterns causing downtime and implement fixes at scale.
• Build PowerShell scripts and automation (Azure Functions, Logic Apps)
• Automate environment health checks and reporting.
• Develop self-healing routines for recurring problems.
• Implement and maintain Azure Monitor/ Application Insights/ Log Analytics dashboards