Azure Cloud Platform Engineer

VML; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech firm is seeking an Azure Cloud Platform Engineer for a contract of 3-6 months. This role involves delivering cloud infrastructure solutions in a collaborative environment, emphasizing DevOps principles. Candidates should possess hands-on experience with Azure and related tools like Kubernetes and Terraform. The position allows for both remote and on-site work within Greater London, aiming for an ASAP start date. Join a culture that values autonomy, inclusion, and technical excellence.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Azure Cloud services.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD and DevOps practices.
• Knowledge of observability tools and practices.

Responsibilities

• Drive the design and development of cloud infrastructure.
• Work with solution architects on technology best practices.
• Ensure implementation of security measures in the cloud.

Skills

Building infrastructure and deploying code in Azure

Implementing and maintaining monitoring tools

Communicating technical concepts

Understanding Infrastructure as Code

Safe Deployment strategies

Cloud-native system design

Observability

DevOps practices

InfoSec and SIEM

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Bitbucket Pipelines

Grafana

Jenkins

Job description

Azure Cloud Platform Engineer

Role type: Contract 3-6 months +

Location: UK London/remote

Preferred start date: ASAP

LIFE AT SATALIA

As an organisation, we push the boundaries of data science, optimisation and artificial intelligence to solve the most complex problems in the industry. Satalia, a WPP company, is a community of individuals devoted to working on diverse and challenging projects, allowing you to flex your technical skills whilst working with a tight-knit team of high performing colleagues.

Led by our founder and WPP Chief AI Officer Daniel Hulme, Satalia's ambition is to become a decentralised organisation of the future. Today, this involves developing tools and processes to liberate and automate manual repetitive tasks, with a focus on freedom, transparency and trust. At the core of our thinking is an approach to wellbeing and inclusivity. We unpack human behaviour and unpick prejudice to ensure a safe and inviting environment. We offer truly flexible working and allow our employees to find the working practice that makes them most productive. At Satalia, your opinion matters and your achievements are celebrated.

THE ROLE

The Cloud Platform Engineers deliver infrastructure solutions as part of an experienced cross-disciplinary team. We have a developer mindset and deliver our infrastructure through code, holding ourselves to the same quality and code standards as the rest of the team.

We need you to use your hands‑on experience to drive the design, development and deployment of Satalia's Logistics and Delivery products.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work with our solution architects to identify the best technologies and process for our clients
• Act as a technical authority to engage and steer discussions on best practice and risk mitigation
• Ensure security considerations are implemented, tested and maintained.
• Build in Observability

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS

• Building infrastructure and deploying code in one of the main Clouds (preferably Azure, Bitbucket Pipelines, Terraform, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, K6)
• Implementing and maintaining monitoring, logging and tracing tools (Grafana or similar)
• Communicating and explaining technical concepts at appropriate levels for your team and to clients
• Understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of Infrastructure and Configuration as Code
• Safe Deployment strategies and CI/CD
• Cloud-based and Cloud-native system design
• Observability
• Developer Experience
• DevOps and SRE
• InfoSec and SIEM

If you know this, even better

• Experience in the Logistics industry
• Practical experience with BitBucket Pipelines, GitHUb Actions Workflows or Azure Devops Pipelines, Repos and Artifacts
• Experience with Kubernetes, and familiarity with differing Cloud implementations
• Experience deploying and operating observability stacks in production environments, including integration with Kubernetes workloads and cloud-native services.
• Hands‑on with Terraform - familiarity with Terragrunt, Terratest
• Experience with Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible in production environments
• Management of Automation Tooling - Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab CI
• Experience with automated testing tools - Selenium, JMeter, Lighthouse
• Strong scripting skills - Powershell, Python, Bash, Ruby, Perl

Satalia is home to some of the brightest minds in AI and if you're looking to join a company who not only values autonomy and freedom, but embraces a culture of inclusion and warmth, we'd love to hear from you.

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