Senior Azure Platform Engineer — Landing Zone & Automation

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

Job summary

Essex County Council is seeking a Senior Platform & Infrastructure Engineer to manage a large Azure estate in a hybrid setup. You will drive automation, governance, networking and monitoring to deliver secure, scalable cloud services that support residents and colleagues across Essex.

This hands-on role requires extensive Azure experience, Terraform modules, and PowerShell automation. Work closely with architecture, cyber security, delivery teams and suppliers to ensure reliable operations

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

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Job description

Essex County Council is seeking a Senior Platform & Infrastructure Engineer to manage a large Azure estate in a hybrid setup. You will drive automation, governance, networking and monitoring to deliver secure, scalable cloud services that support residents and colleagues across Essex.

This hands-on role requires extensive Azure experience, Terraform modules, and PowerShell automation. Work closely with architecture, cyber security, delivery teams and suppliers to ensure reliable operations