Senior Platform Engineer (Azure)

Yolk Recruitment Ltd; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Yolk Recruitment Ltd is seeking a Senior Azure Platform Engineer to own and evolve the Azure environment during a cloud-native transition. You will shape the platform, influence technical decisions and lead projects, with a focus on automation, IaC and engineering standards.

You'll work with Terraform/Bicep, PowerShell and Azure CLI, implementing governance and security controls while supporting modern data workloads and Fabric integration as the organisation modernises.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on Azure architecture and administration experience.
• Strong IaC and automation experience.
• Proven ability to lead cloud-based projects.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve Azure platform architecture and design.
• Drive IaC adoption and automation across teams.
• Lead projects and influence cloud engineering decisions.
• Implement governance, monitoring and security controls in Azure.
• Collaborate with teams on Microsoft Fabric and data workloads.

Skills

Azure platform

IaC

DevOps

Automation

PowerShell

Azure CLI

Git CI/CD

Security governance

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

Azure Policy

Key Vault

Job description

Want to take real ownership of an Azure environment rather than spend your time maintaining someone else's decisions?

We're looking for a Senior Azure Platform Engineer to join an organisation going through a significant technology transformation, moving towards a predominantly cloud-native environment built around Azure and the wider Microsoft ecosystem.

This is a genuinely hands-on senior engineering role where you'll have the opportunity to shape the Azure platform, influence technical decisions and lead projects, with plenty of scope to improve automation, Infrastructure as Code and engineering standards.

You'll also get exposure to Microsoft Fabric and modern data platforms as they become an increasingly important part of the organisation's technology estate.

What you'll be doing

• Taking ownership of engineering across a growing Microsoft Azure estate
• Designing and improving Azure infrastructure, networking, identity and security
• Driving greater adoption of Infrastructure as Code and automation
• Working with Terraform and/or Bicep, PowerShell, Azure CLI, Git and CI/CD
• Implementing Azure governance, monitoring and security controls
• Working with technologies including Azure Policy, Key Vault, Private Endpoints and Defender
• Supporting the engineering platform behind Microsoft Fabric and modern data workloads
• Leading technical projects and influencing cloud architecture decisions
• Helping replace legacy and manual processes with modern, automated solutions
• Acting as a senior technical escalation point for the platforms you build

What we're looking for

You'll be an experienced Azure Engineer, Cloud Engineer or Platform Engineer with strong hands-on Microsoft Azure experience.

Ideally, you'll bring experience across:

• Azure architecture and administration
• Azure networking, identity and RBAC
• Terraform and/or Bicep
• PowerShell and Azure CLI
• Infrastructure as Code
• Git and CI/CD
• Azure security, governance and monitoring
• Automation and DevOps engineering practices

Experience with Microsoft Fabric would be a big advantage, but it isn't essential.

We're equally interested in engineers who have worked with technologies such as Azure Databricks, Synapse, Data Lake, data pipelines or lakehouse architectures and want to develop further into Fabric.

Exposure to Entra ID, Microsoft 365, Defender, Purview or Power Platform would also be useful.

Why consider it?

This isn't a traditional infrastructure support role.

You'll have real technical ownership, direct involvement in architecture and the freedom to improve how cloud infrastructure is engineered and deployed.

You'll be joining during a major period of modernisation, giving you the opportunity to influence the environment rather than simply inherit it.

And importantly, there's a senior technical career path without having to move into people management.

Interested?