Azure​/Networking Engineer

We’re growing and want you to be a part of our journey.

An experienced Azure/Networking engineer who enjoys a challenge at an ever‑growing technology focused business. You will play a key role in supporting the business to implement solutions that provide benefits to our users and clients, whilst ensuring all the existing solutions are well maintained and supported.

This role can be based in any of our regional offices with a hybrid work style of 2-3 days a week in the office. Due to the nature of the work there may be ad‑hoc travel required to different offices and occasional out of hours work to support essential system maintenance.

• Maintaining and implementing new solutions within Isio’s Azure tenants, ensuring alerts are handled, virtual machines are maintained, new resources are set up to best practice.
• Maintaining networking solutions such as Cisco Meraki, Zscaler, Azure Front Door, etc.
• Maintaining and implementing new solutions within Isio’s M365 stack including Entra, Intune, M365 Admin Portal, Defender.
• Aiding with improving the security posture of the business by ensuring security standards are met, everything is set up to best practice, assisting with providing information for audits to renew and new accreditations.
• Working on varying small to large projects to implement new solutions and improve existing ones within the IT stack.
• Working with the service desk as an escalation point to highlight key issues and tackle root causes of issues that arise.

• Strong networking experience – LAN/WAN/SDWAN/Azure networking such as routing, firewalls, network peering, etc.
• Strong proven knowledge of Azure services such as Entra , App Services, Storage, Backups, Conditional Access, Front Door, Load Balancers.
• Experience of Windows server administration – IIS, Update Management, Performance troubleshooting through methods such as log analysis.
• Experience with O365 Suite Administration, Intune & Defender for Endpoint.
• Experience of using tools to automate regular activities (e.g. Tines, N8N, Zapier, Power Automate, Power Shell).
• Great communication and problem‑solving skills with the ability to work under pressure.
• Ability to communicate with stakeholders effectively that have varying levels of technical knowledge.
• Strong technical knowledge with an aptitude for learning.
• Strong documentation skills to ensure all solutions are documented to a high standard.
• Self‑motivated individual with the ability to complete tasks independently and as part of a team.
• Familiarity with security and compliance standards, e.g. Experience working in an ISO 27001 certified environment.
• Use of Azure Dev Ops (or similar tools) to deploy Infrastructure As Code into Azure – experience with ARM or Bicep templates and YAML pipelines.
• Familiarity with mail flow and security solutions such as Proofpoint and ONDmarc.
• Experience working in a regulated industry, e.g. telecoms, financial services, utilities.
• Experience of Jira & Confluence for work management & documentation.
• Experience of monitoring server and cloud native resources using tools such as Data Dog, Solarwinds or similar.

• Power in Partnership
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  We work in partnership with our clients & each other – building open and trusted relationships. Working together allows us to deliver the best for our clients.
• Future Focus
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  We want to push our industry forward by solving problems in better ways that benefit both our clients & society.
• Strength in Difference
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  We work with diverse perspectives to find better solutions. Working with differences makes us stronger.
• People First
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  We recognise that pensions is a people business. People are the source of Isio’s expertise and it is people’s lives that we affect through our advice.

Isio is a people business, and we’re committed to helping our great colleagues gain a wide variety of experience, significant development opportunities and progression through the business.

You can find out more about Isio and the benefits we offer here Isio - Careers & Benefits.

About Isio

Isio was ‘born’ in 2020 from the sale of KPMG UK’s Pension Practice to a private…