Azure Platform Lead: Senior Cloud Consultant

Simpson Associates; York and North Yorkshire; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave

Pension

Healthcare

Private medical

Wellbeing platform

Life assurance

Income protection

Cycle to work

Tech salary sacrifice

Flexible working

Job summary

Simpson Associates is seeking a Cloud Platform Senior Consultant to lead the design, implementation and ongoing management of Azure platform solutions for clients in a data-focused consultancy. You will guide platform decisions, deliver end-to-end Azure infrastructure, and mentor colleagues while contributing to accelerators and internal guidance.

You will work across landing zones, networking, identity, security, governance, and cost optimisation, ensuring secure, well-architected and resilient

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience designing and implementing Azure infrastructure.
• Experience designing and deploying Azure landing zones with CAF and Well-Architected Framework.
• Proficiency with IaC using Azure Bicep and/or Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Knowledge of Azure networking (hub-and-spoke, private endpoints, VNet peering, ExpressRoute).
• Experience with Microsoft Entra ID and RBAC for Azure/Microsoft 365 workloads.

Responsibilities

• Lead client engagements as the senior technical consultant from discovery through to handover.
• Explain platform design decisions clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Manage multiple engagements with minimal day-to-day oversight.
• Hold or obtain SC and NPPV3 clearance.
• Mentor and support other consultants within the team.
• Develop reusable accelerators and internal guidance.

Skills

Azure platform design

Client engagement

Delivery leadership

FinOps awareness

Public speaking

Tools

Azure Bicep

Terraform

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

PowerShell

Job description

Simpson Associates is seeking a Cloud Platform Senior Consultant to lead the design, implementation and ongoing management of Azure platform solutions for clients in a data-focused consultancy. You will guide platform decisions, deliver end-to-end Azure infrastructure, and mentor colleagues while contributing to accelerators and internal guidance.

You will work across landing zones, networking, identity, security, governance, and cost optimisation, ensuring secure, well-architected and resilient