Azure Solutions Consultant

OneAdvanced; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days holiday plus bank holidays

Exceptional family leave

Private medical insurance

Job summary

OneAdvanced is seeking an experienced Azure Solutions Consultant in Birmingham to act as a trusted advisor, providing architectural leadership across design, delivery, and operational transition for Azure solutions. The ideal candidate will dominate Microsoft Azure services and will lead migrations while ensuring secure and cost-optimized designs.

This role offers numerous benefits including flexible holidays, exceptional family leave, and private medical insurance. Candidates should have at least 2 years of Azure experience and relevant Microsoft certifications.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience designing and delivering Azure solutions.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure services.
• Experience with cloud migrations and structured approaches.

Responsibilities

• Act as an Azure technical advisor and provide architectural leadership.
• Design secure, scalable Azure architectures aligned to best practices.
• Lead and support the migration of customer IaaS environments to Azure.

Skills

Azure architecture

Microsoft Azure IaaS

Cloud migrations

DevOps practices

Customer communication

Education

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)

Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400)

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)

Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900)

Job description

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted Azure technical advisor to customers, providing architectural leadership across design, delivery, and operational transition.
• Support pre‑sales engagements, contributing to solution architecture, technical assurance, and scoping of Azure opportunities.
• Work with customers from initial concept and business case, through detailed architecture, delivery, and handover into managed service operations.
• Design secure, scalable, and cost‑optimised Azure architectures aligned to best practice, operational standards, and the customer’s IT strategy.
• Lead and support the migration of customer IaaS environments to Microsoft Azure.
• Oversee and contribute to the deployment of Azure solutions, working closely with delivery and operational teams.
• Collaborate with operational teams to ensure cloud environments are supportable, resilient, and well documented.
• Act as an escalation resource for complex Azure incidents and architectural challenges.
• Champion cloud governance, security, and cost optimisation, providing pragmatic guidance to customers.
• Produce clear, structured technical design documentation and support service handover activities.
• Act as an ambassador for the business, building trust and long‑term customer relationships.

Qualifications

• Proven experience (ideally 2+ years) designing and delivering Azure solutions in consultancy, managed service, or enterprise environments.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Microsoft Azure IaaS and core platform services.
• Experience migrating workloads into Azure using structured, low‑risk approaches.
• Strong understanding of Azure networking, identity, and security principles.
• Experience designing solutions aligned to operational support models.
• Working knowledge of DevOps practices, including CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code.
• Strong customer‑facing communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly.
• Commercial awareness, including Azure cost management and optimisation considerations.
• A proactive, detail‑oriented, and collaborative approach.
• Ability to take ownership of opportunities and lead technical outcomes.
• Experience with cloud migrations.
• Infrastructure as Code (ideally Terraform).
• Azure networking, identity, and access management, virtual desktop, container and serverless architecture, monitoring, logging, and operational tooling.
• Working knowledge of Azure AI services and their application to customer solutions.
• Experience advising on practical AI use cases, risks, governance, and integration into cloud‑native and DevOps‑led architectures.
• Experience using AI‑assisted tools responsibly to improve solution design, documentation, or operational efficiency.
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ‑104).
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ‑305).
• Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ‑400).
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ‑900).
• Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals (AI‑900).

Benefits

• 26 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to buy more, and 1 paid volunteering day every year.
• Exceptional family leave: 26 weeks fully paid maternity/adoption, 4 weeks fully paid paternity, 22 weeks fully paid shared parental leave, and 5 days paid bereavement leave.
• Robust sick pay of up to 13 weeks full pay plus 13 weeks half pay.
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme for confidential support.
• Private medical insurance for everyone, with no medical‑history exclusions.
• Performance‑based rewards, including company‑wide bonuses, on‑target earnings, and commission structures.
• Income protection up to 75% of salary for 5 years if required.
• SkillsHub learning platform with leadership pathways, future‑manager training, and an extensive online library.
• Access to external training and apprenticeships.
• Community partnership programs: donation matching and automatic payroll donations.
• Flexible benefits across RewardHub, including ULEV car scheme, dental insurance, health cash plan, critical illness cover, and partner life cover.