Platform Engineer

McFall Recruitment Limited; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Job summary

McFall Recruitment Limited is seeking a Cloud Platform & DevOps Engineer to design, operate and enhance secure Azure cloud platforms across the business. You’ll work with Azure PaaS, IaC, DevOps tooling and supplier-facing governance to support the Client Onboarding platform from development through production.

You will collaborate with IT, development teams and third-party partners to ensure secure, scalable deployments, IaC pipelines, and robust monitoring.

Qualifications

• Design and support secure, scalable Azure architectures aligned to Landing Zone principles.
• Provide operational support across App Services, API Management, Azure SQL, Key Vault and storage.
• Develop and review Infrastructure as Code (Bicep, Terraform, ARM).
• Configure and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment tooling (Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket).
• Strengthen identity, access and secrets management with RBAC and Key Vault.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot Azure networking, VNets, Private Endpoints, NSGs and DNS.
• Automate operational tasks using PowerShell, Azure CLI, Bash or Python.
• Maintain clear documentation, runbooks and operational procedures.
• Support cloud cost optimisation and platform hygiene.

Skills

Azure PaaS

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD tooling

Azure DevOps

Networking & security

Identity & RBAC

Monitoring & observability

Scripting (PowerShell/Bash/Python)

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

Azure CLI

GitHub

GitLab

Bitbucket

Job description

Cloud Platform & DevOps Engineer to help design, operate and enhance secure Azure cloud platforms across the business. You’ll work across Azure PaaS, Infrastructure as Code, DevOps tooling and supplier‑facing technical governance - with a major focus on supporting our Client Onboarding platform across Dev, Test and Production. If you enjoy solving complex cloud challenges, improving reliability and enabling secure delivery at scale, this role offers huge scope and impact.

You’ll work closely with internal IT, development teams and third‑party partners to ensure infrastructure changes, pipelines, service connections and deployment patterns are secure, supportable and aligned to business standards. From Azure architecture and IaC to CI/CD, networking, monitoring, identity, resilience and automation - this is a hands‑on engineering role at the heart of our cloud transformation.

What you’ll be doing

• Designing and supporting secure, scalable Azure architectures aligned to Landing Zone principles
• Providing operational support across App Services, API Management, Azure SQL, Key Vault, Storage, Managed Identities and private networking
• Supporting the Client Onboarding platform across environments, including incident investigation and deployment troubleshooting
• Developing and reviewing Infrastructure as Code (Bicep, Terraform, ARM)
• Reviewing infrastructure pull requests from third‑party partners to ensure alignment with naming, tagging, security and networking standards
• Configuring and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, service connections, environments and deployment tooling (Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket)
• Troubleshooting Azure networking: VNets, Private Endpoints, NSGs, DNS, routing and service‑to‑service connectivity
• Strengthening identity, access and secrets management using RBAC, Managed Identities and Key Vault
• Improving monitoring and observability with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics and Application Insights
• Supporting backup, recovery, resilience and DR activities
• Automating operational tasks using PowerShell, Azure CLI, Bash or Python
• Maintaining clear documentation, runbooks and operational procedures
• Supporting cloud cost optimisation and platform hygiene
• Contributing to change management, risk assessment and audit requirements
• Providing technical guidance on Azure, IaC, DevOps and secure cloud delivery

Do you have?

• Deep knowledge of Azure PaaS services (App Services, API Management, SQL, Key Vault, Storage, App Insights)
• Experience with IaC (Bicep, Terraform, ARM)
• CI/CD experience (Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket)
• Strong troubleshooting skills across Azure and deployment tooling
• Solid understanding of networking, identity, monitoring and secure cloud design
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Azure Policy, Defender for Cloud, PIM
• Cost optimisation and RCA
• Experience working with third‑party development partners

The role is hybrid working based in either Glasgow or Edinburgh with 3-days a week in the office.