Azure Platform Engineer - Operations & Reliability

Azure Platform Engineer - Operations & Reliability
£55,000–£65,000 + Bonus + On-Call Allowance + Benefits | UK | Fully Remote

Overview
We’re looking for an Azure Platform Engineer to join a growing Managed Services team supporting secure, business-critical Azure environments for public-sector and regulated organisations.

This role would suit someone with a strong foundation in commercially supporting Azure environments for clients, who is ready to broaden their skills across platform operations, networking, security and automation.

You’ll take ownership of day-to-day incidents and operational activities, collaborating with senior engineers on complex issues. 

Key Responsibilities

• Provide L2 and initial L3 support across production Azure environments.
• Investigate incidents, service requests and platform alerts through to resolution or escalation.
• Monitor platform health using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, KQL and automated alerting.
• Support Azure infrastructure and platform services, including virtual machines, storage, App Service, Functions and Azure SQL.
• Troubleshoot networking, connectivity, identity and access issues.
• Support Azure DevOps pipelines and Infrastructure as Code deployments.
• Help maintain security and governance controls, including RBAC, Azure Policy, Key Vault and Defender for Cloud.
• Improve monitoring, automation, documentation and operational processes.
• Participate in the paid on-call rota once fully trained.

Skills & Experience

• Minimum 3+ years commercial experience supporting Microsoft Azure environments.
• Hands-on knowledge of core Azure infrastructure and platform services.
• Experience troubleshooting incidents using monitoring and logging tools.
• A practical understanding of Azure networking, Entra ID and RBAC.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, Git, CI/CD or release processes.
• Exposure to Bicep, ARM templates or Terraform.
• Strong troubleshooting, communication and customer-facing skills.
• Eligibility to obtain UK Government SC clearance.

You don’t need to meet every requirement. We’re particularly interested in candidates with solid Azure fundamentals and the ambition to develop into a well-rounded platform engineer.

What This Role Offers

• Fully remote working from anywhere in the UK.
• £55,000–£65,000 basic salary.
• Annual bonus and additional on-call allowance.
• Training and support towards Azure certifications.
• Exposure to secure, enterprise-scale Azure environments.
• Clear opportunities for learning and career progression.
• A supportive and collaborative team culture.