Senior Azure Engineer

Ekco; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 800 000 - 1 200 000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent cloud solution provider is seeking a Senior Azure Engineer to lead the design and implementation of Azure Landing Zones. The ideal candidate will have strong experience with Microsoft Azure, Terraform, and a solid understanding of networking. Responsibilities include managing cloud projects and providing technical coaching. This role promotes a culture of collaboration and growth, offering exciting career opportunities within a diverse environment.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Commitment to diversity and inclusion

Career progression opportunities

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure services.
• Proven expertise in Terraform, including modular writing.
• Experience with Azure Landing Zones and Enterprise-Scale architecture.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement Public Cloud projects for clients.
• Create design documents for solutions delivery.
• Collaborate with teams to ensure solution implementation.

Skills

Microsoft Azure

Terraform

Networking

Windows Server

Education

Industry qualifications

Job description

About Ekco

🚀 Founded in 2016, Ekco has quickly become one of Europe’s fastest-growing cloud solution providers and your trusted security-first Managed Service Provider.
IT leaders choose Ekco to drive operational efficiency, scale smarter and stay ahead of risk – powered by local expertise, delivered at European scale.

We specialise in helping organisations advance their cloud maturity guiding transformation, strengthening security, and maximising the value of their technology investments.

☁️ In simple terms: we help organisations modernise with confidence securing their systems, optimising their cloud, and keeping them resilient in a rapidly changing world.

🌍 Today, we’re a thriving team of 1,000+ talented and supportive colleagues across the UK, Ireland, Benelux, South Africa, and Malaysia—and we’re continuing to grow.

At Ekco, how we work matters as much as what we deliver. Our people live by four core values that shape everything we do:

On It: We take ownership, follow through, and get things done.

All In: We collaborate, support each other, and commit fully to shared goals.

Connected: We build trusted relationships with colleagues, clients, and partners.

Hungry to Grow: We stay curious, keep learning, and push ourselves to the next level.

🏠If these values resonate with you, you’ll feel right at home here.

The Role

The Senior Azure Engineer is the final point of technical escalation within the wider team, responsible for resolving complex issues and maintaining service excellence across customer environments. You’ll use deep technical expertise and collaboration to prevent recurring problems, strengthen reliability, and contribute to solution design and change delivery. The Senior Azure Engineer will design, build, and support secure, scalable Azure Landing Zones using Terraform, enabling consistent, automated, and well-governed cloud environments for the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Engaging in the design, planning and implementation of Public Cloud projects for key Ekco clients

• Working closely with the Project Management team to deliver exceptional projects and solutions

• Creating detailed high-level and low-level design and project handover documents to communicate solutions to clients and Ekco’s service delivery teams

• Collaborating with business units and stakeholders across the architecture, commercial and technical teams to support the implementation of customer solutions

• Implement core Azure platform services such as Azure Networking, Identity (Azure AD/Entra), Management Groups, Policies, Blueprints, and monitoring within Landing Zone architecture.

• Providing technical coaching to team members, ensuring that technical documentation is maintained in line with Ekco standards and policies

• Design, build, and maintain Azure Landing Zones using Terraform, ensuring scalable, secure, and cloud environments aligned to architecture standards.

• Develop and manage Infrastructure , reusable Terraform templates, and automated deployment pipelines for consistent Azure resource provisioning.

Requirements

• Strong hands‑on experience with Microsoft Azure, including core services such as networking, compute, identity, governance, and monitoring.

• Proven expertise in Terraform, including writing reusable modules, managing state, and implementing IaC best practices.

• Practical experience designing or deploying Azure Landing Zones, Enterprise‑Scale architecture, Management Groups, Azure Policies, and RBAC.

• Industry qualifications that demonstrate ability in area of operation

• 5+ years experience

• End‑to‑end networking experience: wireless, firewalls, and switches.

• In depth knowledge on the Windows Server stack, inclusive of virtualization.
  

Why Ekco

• • ⭐️ Microsoft’s 2023 Rising Star Security Partner of the Year
• • 🚀 First Irish Microsoft MSP to achieve all four Microsoft Security Specializations
• • 🏅 Ranked 4th fastest-growing technology company in the Deloitte Fast50 Awards
• • 🌈 A culture rooted in diversity, equality, inclusion & belonging
• • 🎉 A commitment to internal mobility and career progression
• • ✨ Flexible, family-friendly working at the heart of our culture
• • 🔐 Proud to be your trusted security-first Managed Service Provider chosen by IT leaders to drive operational efficiency, scale smarter and stay ahead of risk.