Senior (Azure) Platform Engineer (LON)

McNally Recruitment Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits-as-Cash (10%)

Job summary

McNally Recruitment Ltd is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build and improve cloud platforms in a role that is mostly remote with one day per week in London. You will ensure secure, scalable, highly available Azure platforms, and collaborate with multiple teams to share and reuse best practices and technology stacks.

You’ll lead CI/CD, automation, and observability efforts, contribute to the codebase, and perform peer reviews while owning platform engineering tooling and processes.

Qualifications

• 10+ years hands-on experience in cloud platform engineering
• Experience designing and operating secure, scalable Azure platforms
• Strong CI/CD design, build, and deployment expertise
• Proven ability to automate and improve platform delivery
• Knowledge of cloud security, landing zones, CAF, and network security
• Hands-on with IaC and automation tools such as Bicep, Terraform, PowerShell, JSON, Azure DevOps or Jenkins
• Experience with database services like Cosmos DB, MongoDB, SQL PaaS
• Strong understanding of microservices, containers, and API management

Responsibilities

• Design, build and optimise robust platforms
• Ensure platforms are secure, scalable and highly available
• Collaborate across teams to share best practices and tech stack
• Contribute to codebase with clean, reusable solutions
• Perform peer reviews of code and design
• Prioritise platform defects and maintenance to improve delivery
• Develop and improve platform engineering tools and workflows
• Pioneer ideas to enhance platform delivery lifecycles

Skills

Cloud platform engineering

Azure

CI/CD

Automation

Security

Observability

Microservices

Containerisation

Networking

Code reviews

Collaboration

Tools

Bicep

Terraform

PowerShell

JSON

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

Job description

Senior Platform Engineer - London

We are working in collaboration to source a Senior Platform Engineer. This role is working mostly remote, with the requirement to work in the London office only 1 day per week.

You will take on a high-profile role, which will see you design, build and improve platforms. You’ll be making sure that they are secure, scalable and available, collaborating across teams to share and re-utilise good practice and technology stack. If you’re passionate about cloud engineering, automation and enabling teams to move faster and safer, in this role hone your existing skills and advance your career.

What you'll do

• Ensure that our platforms are robust, value for money and continuously optimised.
• Ensure the technology stack is constantly enhanced by adding new features and ensuring defects are resolved in a timely manner.
• Contribute to the code base and make sure that it is clean, elegant, reusable, and easy to maintain and extend.
• Proactively perform code and design peer reviews
• Ensure platforms and operational issues, defects, and maintenance activities are prioritised appropriately and provide highly available and performing solutions
• Own, develop and improve platform engineering tools, processes and ways of working
• Pioneer new ideas to improve platform delivery lifecycles from design, code, automation to effective operational support

The skills you'll need

• At least 10 years of hands-on experience in cloud platform engineering, designing and operating secure, scalable and high - performing Azure platforms
• Experience in a fast-paced engineering environment and contributing to improving overall engineering maturity.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Azuredesign, build and deployment using CI or CD.
• Good collaboration and interpersonal skills
• real-time logging and monitoring
• Extensive hands-on experience designing, building and deploying Microsoft Azure services, including PaaS and AKS, using CI/CD
• Strong Azure administration expertise, including Landing Zones, CAF principles, Hub & Spoke networking and cloud security best practices
• Proficiency with IaC and automation tools such as Bicep, Terraform, PowerShell, JSON, Azure DevOps or Jenkins
• Solid understanding of cloud-native architectures, microservices, containerisation and API Management
• real-time monitoring and observability tools such as Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, AppInsights and Grafana
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft technologies including Azure Entra, Microsoft 365 and Endpoint Manager
• Knowledge of configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet or Ansible, along with strong communication and stakeholder skills
• Experience with cloud database technologies such as MongoDB, Cosmos DB, SQL PaaS services including optimisation, performance tuning and high availability
• Strong networking knowledge across VNet design, firewalls, routing, private endpoints, WAFs and network security groups
• Understanding of compliance and regulatory standards including PCI DSS, financial services governance, secure-by-design principles, data protection and change control rigor

SALARY INCLUDES 10% Benefits-As-Cash