Senior Azure Platform Engineer – Automation & Networking

Essex County Counci; Chelmsford; Hybrid; GBP 48,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

Essex County Council is hiring a Senior Platform & Infrastructure Engineer (Azure Platform Specialist) on a fixed-term 12-month contract, hybrid-working with in-office presence in Chelmsford. The role offers £47,878 to £56,326 per annum and requires current right to work in the UK.

The role sits within the Essex Digital Service, delivering secure, scalable Azure estate improvements, governance, automation and operational support.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience implementing and operating Microsoft Azure infrastructure in large, complex enterprise environments.
• Strong Terraform experience, including reusable modules, source control and automated deployment pipelines.
• Advanced PowerShell skills used for infrastructure automation, platform management and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Operate and continuously improve ECC’s Azure Landing Zone, ensuring it remains secure, resilient and supportable.
• Build and maintain Azure infrastructure using Terraform, PowerShell and automation tooling.
• Provide senior technical expertise across Azure networking and connectivity, including Virtual Networks, Virtual WAN, ExpressRoute, VPN, DNS and private connectivity.
• Maintain core platform governance controls across Management Groups, Azure Policy, RBAC, tagging and subscriptions.
• Support project and development teams to onboard services using approved platform patterns.
• Drive platform enhancements, service improvements and infrastructure modernisation to improve resilience, performance, cost efficiency, monitoring and operational visibility.
• Contribute to disaster recovery planning, implementation and testing across Azure platform services.
• Provide senior technical input during incidents, root cause analysis and service improvement activity.
• Maintain clear operational documentation and support effective handover for platform changes, incidents and operational processes.

Skills

Azure platform

Terraform

PowerShell

Azure networking

CI/CD pipelines

Troubleshooting

Collaboration

Tools

Terraform

PowerShell

Azure DevOps

Job description

Essex County Council is hiring a Senior Platform & Infrastructure Engineer (Azure Platform Specialist) on a fixed-term 12-month contract, hybrid-working with in-office presence in Chelmsford. The role offers £47,878 to £56,326 per annum and requires current right to work in the UK.

The role sits within the Essex Digital Service, delivering secure, scalable Azure estate improvements, governance, automation and operational support.