Senior Azure Platform Engineer — Hybrid, Growth & Certs

Portfolio BI

Greater London

Hybrid

GBP 90,000 - 130,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working - hybrid mode

Medical insurance package

Generous paid time off

Professional development and training

Professional certification exams

Job summary

Portfolio BI in London is seeking a Senior Azure Cloud & Platform Engineer to own the Azure platform, ensure deployed systems align with architecture and security requirements, and support secure, stable operations. You will lead identity management, disaster recovery, and monitoring while partnering with external development and engineering teams.

The role requires hands-on Azure expertise, experience with production environments, and strong scripting/automation skills.

Qualifications

Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure.
Experience supporting live, business-critical production environments.
Experience across cloud architecture, platform engineering and operations.
Practical Infrastructure as Code experience, preferably with Terraform.
Strong knowledge of Entra ID, Azure RBAC and PIM.
Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting and incident investigation.
Understanding of disaster recovery, backups, RTOs, RPOs and recovery testing.
Experience working with API-driven services and distributed platforms.
Ability to troubleshoot across infrastructure, applications and integrations.
Familiarity with scripting, automation and CI/CD pipelines.
Strong technical documentation and runbook-development skills.
Ability to work independently, take ownership and exercise sound technical judgement.
Confidence working with and challenging external technical partners.

Responsibilities

Oversee the Azure environment, including subscriptions, landing zones, networking and platform dependencies.
Validate that deployed infrastructure aligns with architecture and security requirements.
Investigate issues across infrastructure, APIs, applications and integrations.
Review Entra ID, Azure RBAC, PIM, privileged access and supplier access.
Ensure least-privilege principles and joiner/mover/leaver processes.
Assess disaster-recovery capabilities, backups, runbooks and test evidence.
Review monitoring coverage, alerts, dashboards and escalation processes.
Read, modify and improve Terraform configurations.
Support CI/CD pipelines and create scripts or small automation tools.
Diagnose production issues and develop runbooks and technical documentation.
Act as internal counterpart to external providers, reviewing proposed changes.
Identify gaps between design, deployed config and operations.
Communicate risks, findings and recommendations clearly to stakeholders.