Technical Consultant - Microsoft

Advania UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Advania UK is looking for a Technical Lead Internally to consult, guide, and shape customer Azure and Modern Workplace strategies. The role focuses on designing tooling to align with digital roadmaps and ensuring secure, compliant cloud solutions.

The position requires onsite presence up to 3 days a week with customers in Central London and supports hybrid working across teams. Relevant Azure/M365 expertise and strong leadership are essential.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 platforms (compute, storage, networking, identity, collaboration services).
• Proven experience designing and implementing secure, scalable cloud solutions across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
• Understanding of Entra ID (Azure AD), RBAC, Conditional Access, and cloud security principles.
• Experience implementing Zero Trust principles across identity, device, and data layers.
• Familiarity with Microsoft security tools (Defender for Cloud, Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Office 365, Sentinel).
• Expertise in cloud migration approaches (lift-and-shift, re-platforming, refactoring).
• Knowledge of Azure networking concepts (VNets, firewalls, private endpoints, hybrid connectivity).
• Strong troubleshooting capabilities across cloud infrastructure and services.
• Experience in project scoping and solution estimation (effort sizing, assumptions, dependencies, risk identification).
• Relevant Microsoft certifications (e.g., Azure Administrator, Azure Solutions Architect, Security Engineer).

Responsibilities

• Consulting & Guidance: Collaborating with clients to understand their digital transformation needs and providing expert advice on technical solutions.
• Design & Implementation: Shaping, designing, and implementing tooling and solutions that meet the requirements of customers’ digital strategies.
• Technical Leadership: Acting as a key figure in internal and customer technical design authorities, establishing standards and approaches based on deep subject matter expertise.
• Project Management: Participating in project estimation and scoping, ensuring projects are accurately defined, delivered on time, and within budget.
• Collaboration: Maintaining strong relationships with the Technical Operations team, Account Management, Service Delivery, and the BAU team to facilitate seamless support and issue resolution.
• Monitoring & Governance: Implementing monitoring, alerting, and operational governance within Azure to ensure a strong security posture and regulatory compliance.
• Documentation: Ensuring all solutions are fully documented, supportable, and transitioned into managed services with clear ownership and SLAs.

Skills

Azure & Microsoft 365

Cloud architecture

Identity & security (Entra ID, RBAC,CA

Zero Trust

Microsoft Defender/Sentinel

Cloud migration

Azure networking

Troubleshooting

Project estimation

Azure certifications

Education

Microsoft certifications (Azure Administrator, Azure Solutions Architect, Security Engineer)

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

AKS

Job description

Position Overview

As a Technical consultant (Technical Lead Internally), consult, guide, and shape customer strategies and services within our defined areas of responsibility. Play a crucial role in designing and implementing the necessary tooling to align with our customers' digital roadmaps while supporting day-to-day operations. This role predominantly focuses on Microsoft Cloud technologies, specifically the Modern Workplace and Azure technologies, requiring subject matter expertise.

Responsibilities

• Consulting & Guidance: Collaborating with clients to understand their digital transformation needs and providing expert advice on technical solutions.
• Design & Implementation: Shaping, designing, and implementing tooling and solutions that meet the requirements of customers’ digital strategies.
• Technical Leadership: Acting as a key figure in internal and customer technical design authorities, establishing standards and approaches based on deep subject matter expertise.
• Project Management: Participating in project estimation and scoping, ensuring projects are accurately defined, delivered on time, and within budget.
• Collaboration: Maintaining strong relationships with the Technical Operations team, Account Management, Service Delivery, and the BAU team to facilitate seamless support and issue resolution.
• Monitoring & Governance: Implementing monitoring, alerting, and operational governance within Azure to ensure a strong security posture and regulatory compliance.
• Documentation: Ensuring all solutions are fully documented, supportable, and transitioned into managed services with clear ownership and SLAs.

Hybrid Working

We recognise the benefits that remote and flexible working brings.

We operate a hybrid working policy that allows our employees to balance time in the office and time from home. Each team within our organisation can decide how to implement this policy.

This role requires an onsite presence of up to 3 days a week with the client in Central London.

Essential

Qualifications and Experience

• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 platforms (compute, storage, networking, identity, collaboration services).
• Proven experience in designing and implementing secure, scalable cloud solutions across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
• Understanding of Entra ID (Azure AD), RBAC, Conditional Access, and cloud security principles.
• Experience implementing Zero Trust principles across identity, device, and data layers.
• Familiarity with Microsoft security tools (Defender for Cloud, Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Office 365, Sentinel).
• Expertise in cloud migration approaches (lift-and-shift, re-platforming, refactoring).
• Knowledge of Azure networking concepts (VNets, firewalls, private endpoints, hybrid connectivity).
• Strong troubleshooting capabilities across cloud infrastructure and services.
• Experience in project scoping and solution estimation (effort sizing, assumptions, dependencies, risk identification).
• Relevant Microsoft certifications (e.g., Azure Administrator, Azure Solutions Architect, Security Engineer).

Preferred

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates).
• Background in building and managing CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions).
• Understanding of containerization and modern workloads (e.g., AKS, serverless).

About Us

We are the tech company with people at heart.

At Advania, we believe in empowering people to create sustainable value through the clever use of technology. As one of Microsoft's leading partners in the UK, specialising in Azure, Security, Dynamics 365, and Microsoft 365, we have a proven track record of success in delivering transformational IT services.

Our Selection Process

We are committed to ensuring an equitable experience for all candidates, regardless of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

Please do let us know if you’ll need any reasonable adjustments as part of the selection process by highlighting these on your application form.

As part of our commitment to our clients we will need to carry out background checks, including a criminal record check, for all offers of employment. If you have any unspent criminal convictions or questions about the screening process, please notify your recruiter once the application has been submitted.

We are the tech company with people at heart.

Tech is created for people. Our services impact every part of life. We are passionate about understanding your issues, your business, your needs. Our business is built around understanding people, and our employees are empowered to act on this understanding every day.