Platform Engineer (Azure)

Azure Platform 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 across 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