Azure Solutions Consultant

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted Azure technical advisor to customers, providing architectural leadership across design, delivery, and operational transition.
• Support pre‑sales engagements, contributing to solution architecture, technical assurance, and scoping of Azure opportunities.
• Work with customers from initial concept and business case, through detailed architecture, delivery, and handover into managed service operations.
• Design secure, scalable, and cost‑optimised Azure architectures aligned to best practice, operational standards, and the customer’s IT strategy.
• Lead and support the migration of customer IaaS environments to Microsoft Azure.
• Oversee and contribute to the deployment of Azure solutions, working closely with delivery and operational teams.
• Collaborate with operational teams to ensure cloud environments are supportable, resilient, and well documented.
• Act as an escalation resource for complex Azure incidents and architectural challenges.
• Champion cloud governance, security, and cost optimisation, providing pragmatic guidance to customers.
• Produce clear, structured technical design documentation and support service handover activities.
• Act as an ambassador for the business, building trust and long‑term customer relationships.

• Proven experience (ideally 2+ years) designing and delivering Azure solutions in consultancy, managed service, or enterprise environments.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Microsoft Azure IaaS and core platform services.
• Experience migrating workloads into Azure using structured, low‑risk approaches.
• Strong understanding of Azure networking, identity, and security principles.
• Experience designing solutions aligned to operational support models.
• Working knowledge of Dev Ops practices, including CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code.
• Strong customer‑facing communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly.
• Commercial awareness, including Azure cost management and optimisation considerations.
• A proactive, detail‑oriented, and collaborative approach.
• Ability to take ownership of opportunities and lead technical outcomes.
• Experience with cloud migrations.
• Infrastructure as Code (ideally Terraform).
• Azure networking, identity, and access management, virtual desktop, container and serverless architecture, monitoring, logging, and operational tooling.
• Working knowledge of Azure AI services and their application to customer solutions.
• Experience advising on practical AI use cases, risks, governance, and integration into cloud‑native and Dev Ops‑led architectures.
• Experience using AI‑assisted tools responsibly to improve solution design, documentation, or operational efficiency.
• Microsoft Certified:
  Azure Administrator Associate (AZ‑104).
• Microsoft Certified:
  Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ‑305).
• Microsoft Certified:
  Dev Ops Engineer Expert (AZ‑400).
• Microsoft Certified:
  Azure Fundamentals (AZ‑900).
• Microsoft Certified:
  Azure AI Fundamentals (AI‑900).

• 26 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to buy more, and 1 paid volunteering day every year.
• Exceptional family leave: 26 weeks fully paid maternity/adoption, 4 weeks fully paid paternity, 22 weeks fully paid shared parental leave, and 5 days paid bereavement leave.
• Robust sick pay of up to 13 weeks full pay plus 13 weeks half pay.
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme for confidential support.
• Private medical insurance for everyone, with no medical‑history exclusions.
• Performance‑based rewards, including company‑wide bonuses, on‑target earnings, and commission structures.
• Income protection up to 75% of salary for 5 years if required.
• Skills Hub learning platform with leadership pathways, future‑manager training, and an extensive online library.
• Access to external training and apprenticeships.
• Community partnership programs: donation matching and automatic payroll donations.
• Flexible benefits across Reward Hub, including ULEV car scheme, dental insurance, health cash plan, critical illness cover, and partner life cover.