Platform Engineer (Contract)

Two Circles; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading sports marketing firm in London is seeking a Platform Engineer to manage and enhance their cloud infrastructure primarily focused on Azure. The role involves designing scalable solutions, implementing security best practices, and ensuring CI/CD workflows. Ideal candidates should have deep Azure experience, a strong understanding of cloud networking, and be familiar with automation tools. This position offers the flexibility of some remote work, while primarily based in the London office.

Qualifications

• Deep experience with Azure cloud infrastructure and services.
• Proven ability to deliver CI/CD workflows across Azure and AWS platforms.
• Strong scripting and automation with PowerShell, Python, Bash or similar tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage scalable and resilient infrastructure across Microsoft Azure and AWS.
• Drive best practices around cross-cloud networking, security, monitoring, backups, and key management.
• Implement and enforce security practices including IAM and encryption standards.

Skills

Azure cloud infrastructure

Cloud networking

Infrastructure-as-Code

CI/CD workflows

Scripting and automation

Monitoring and observability solutions

Tools

Azure DevOps

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS CodePipeline

Job description

About Us

Two Circles is a data-driven sports marketing business. We work with the world's biggest sports organisations - including the NFL, Premier League, Formula 1, Wimbledon and UEFA - and have four times been named Sport Industry Agency of the Year.

We have over 1000 Two Circlers across the globe, operating in eight cities across three core regions (LA, Kansas City, Miami, NYC, London, Bern, Paris and Melbourne). Include Tech focused regions - APAC, EMEA and America's.

As part of our continued growth, we are recruiting an Engineering Director, EMEA to lead our digital engineering capability across the region. This is a senior leadership role, responsible for building and managing engineering teams, ensuring delivery discipline, and driving scalable digital solutions for our clients. You will also play an active role in shaping our global technology alignment, collaborating with peers in other regions to ensure consistent ways of working and shared best practice across Two Circles.

Platform Engineer Role Overview

You will join the team working in our Two Circles London office. Working in the office the majority of the week, with some flexibility to work from home when required, you\'ll join a highly experienced and innovative Platform Engineering team. Platform Engineering supports, manages, and enhances the Two Circles cloud estate, while also partnering with client teams to deliver new projects.

You will be part of a team delivering both greenfield deployments as well as supporting the improvement and maintenance of our shared tenant platforms. You\'ll collaborate with talented colleagues to drive innovation, accelerate problem-solving, and enhance your professional growth. Our team-oriented environment encourages creativity and open communication, helping us to build stronger connections and deliver exceptional outcomes for our clients. You\'ll become part of a supportive community dedicated to shared success, providing an inspiring atmosphere in which to advance your career. While we reference AWS skill in the skills and responsibilities, the priority skillsets required for this contract role are Azure skills.

Requirements

Core Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage scalable and resilient infrastructure across Microsoft Azure and AWS.
• Maintain and evolve Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Bicep, Terraform, or CloudFormation.
• Drive best practices around cross-cloud networking, security, monitoring, backups, and key management.
• Configure and lead adoption of CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or AWS CodePipeline.
• Proactively manage system performance, monitoring, and observability to ensure resilience across our cloud estates.
• Implement and enforce security practices including IAM, encryption standards, and PoLP (Principle of Least Privilege).
• Architect and troubleshoot multi-cloud networking components such as VPNs, VPC/VNET peering, routing, DNS, and firewalls to enable seamless integration between Azure and AWS.
• Maintain and troubleshoot issues at the operating system and application level (Windows Server, SQL Server, IIS, Linux).
• Collaborate with application and data engineering teams to support pipelines and tooling (e.g. Azure Data Factory, Databricks, AWS Glue, Redshift).
• Contribute to disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BCP) strategies across multiple cloud platforms.

Skills & Experience Required

• Deep experience with Azure cloud infrastructure and services.
• Strong knowledge of cloud networking (hybrid, multi-cloud, VPNs, routing, peering, security groups, firewalls).
• Expert-level proficiency in IaC (Bicep, ARM, Terraform or CloudFormation desirable).
• Proven ability to deliver CI/CD workflows across Azure and AWS platforms.
• Strong scripting and automation with PowerShell, Python, Bash or similar tools.
• Demonstrated ability to design and implement monitoring and observability solutions (Azure Monitor, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar).
• Knowledge of security best practices in cloud, including WAFs and compliance standards.
• Demonstrated capability to work across complex, distributed systems and resolve production incidents.

Additional Skills / Qualifications (Beneficial)

• Certifications: Azure Administrator Associate / Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Solutions Architect Associate / Professional.

• Experience with other cloud platforms AWS, Google would AWS cloud infrastructure and services.
• Experience with multi-cloud networking design and cross-cloud integration.
• Exposure to containerization and orchestration tools: Docker, Kubernetes, AKS, or EKS.
• SQL database administration for both IaaS and PaaS environments.
• Experience supporting data pipelines and analytics ecosystems.