Azure Platform Engineer

Azure Platform Engineer

Location: Sheffield (3 days on-site)
Contract Length: 3 Months+
Day Rate: £447 per day (Inside IR35)

Clearance: BPSS Eligible

Your New Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Azure Platform Engineer to join a leading global financial services organisation.

You'll play a key role within a high-profile platform team responsible for maintaining and evolving a large-scale Azure environment that underpins critical digital services used by colleagues and customers worldwide.

This is a hands-on senior engineering position where you will act as the Azure technical authority, driving platform improvements, infrastructure automation, governance compliance, and operational excellence across a complex enterprise estate.

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Extensive hands-on experience engineering and supporting Azure platforms in large-scale production environments.
• Expert-level PowerShell skills with a proven track record of developing reusable automation and tooling.
• Strong Azure networking knowledge, including VNets, NSGs, DNS, routing, load balancing, and hybrid connectivity.
• Experience managing VM image build and release processes using technologies such as Azure Image Builder, Packer, or Shared Image Galleries.
• Proven Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates.
• Strong understanding of Azure governance, policy implementation, RBAC, managed identities, and compliance controls.
• Experience troubleshooting complex infrastructure, networking, and application issues within enterprise environments.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to produce technical documentation and mentor engineering teams.

Desirable Skills

• Azure Landing Zones and enterprise-scale architecture
• Azure Policy authoring and remediation
• Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions
• Entra ID and identity governance
• Financial services or regulated industry experience
• Microsoft Azure certifications such as AZ-104, AZ-305, or AZ-400

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain Azure VM image build and release processes.
• Implement Azure governance policies and remediate compliance issues.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code solutions and CI/CD deployment pipelines.
• Create robust PowerShell automation for platform operations.
• Configure and support Azure networking services.
• Lead the investigation and resolution of complex production incidents.
• Work closely with platform, application, and cybersecurity teams to improve platform capability and resilience.

What You'll Get in Return

• Competitive day rate of £447 per day (Inside IR35)
• Opportunity to work within a large-scale, enterprise Azure environment
• Hybrid working arrangement with 3 days on-site in Sheffield
• Exposure to cutting-edge cloud technologies and large-scale digital transformation initiatives

What You Need to Do NowIf you're interested in this role, click 'Apply Now' to submit your application, or contact the Hays Technology team for a confidential discussion regarding your career.

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