Principal Azure Consultant

Location:

UK
- London, UK
- Reading, UK
- Hatfield, UK
- Manchester, UK
- Nottingham, UK
- Milton Keynes, UK
- Birmingham, UK
- Edinburgh | Job- | Contract type:
Standard | Business Unit: IT Consulting Life on the team

This is an exciting opportunity to work with some of the UK's largest organisations, shaping cloud strategies, influencing solution design, and delivering modern Azure platforms that enable business transformation. You'll combine deep technical expertise with customer-facing consultancy, acting as a trusted advisor throughout the full project lifecycle.

You’ll be joining Computacenter’s Global Professional Services organisation, a community of over 5,000 consultants, architects, engineers, and project professionals delivering complex technology solutions across the world.

As part of our Azure Practice, you’ll work alongside industry-leading cloud specialists, architects, delivery teams, and strategic technology partners. You'll help shape cloud strategy, contribute to innovative service offerings, and work with leading technologies across Azure, Dev Ops, Automation, and Kubernetes.

What you'll doLead customer engagements, providing expert Azure consultancy throughout the solution lifecycle

Shape and influence Azure solutions during pre-sales activities, workshops, and technical discussions

Design and implement scalable, secure, and resilient Azure platforms aligned to industry best practices

Provide technical governance, assurance, and quality control across pre-sales and project delivery engagements

Define standards, blueprints, and reusable patterns for Azure-based solutions

Collaborate within agile delivery teams to design, implement, and optimise cloud solutions

Present technical solutions to customers and stakeholders at both technical and executive levels

Identify technical and business risks and provide recommendations to ensure successful outcomes

Mentor consultants and engineers while contributing to the growth of the Azure Practice What you'll need Extensive experience designing and delivering Microsoft Azure solutions

Azure certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Administrator Associate, and/or Azure Dev Ops Engineer Expert Strong experience supporting pre-sales engagements and shaping customer requirements

Expertise across Azure infrastructure, networking, security, governance, automation, and cloud migration

Strong understanding of:
Azure Cloud Adoption Framework Enterprise Scale Landing Zones (ALZ)
Well-Architected Framework Fin Ops  and Cost Optimisation Operational Resilience

Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation tools including Terraform, Bicep, Ansible, Power Shell, and Python Knowledge of Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub, CI/CD pipelines, and platform automation

Experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and container-based platforms

Strong communication skills with the ability to engage technical teams, business stakeholders, and customer leadership

Experience delivering cloud solutions within agile environments

Experience with technologies such as Azure Virtual Desktop, Azure Local, Azure Sovereign Cloud, Service Now, Dynatrace, Datadog, Splunk, Zscaler, Palo Alto, or cloud cost optimisation tools would be advantageous.

If you're looking for a role where you can combine deep Azure expertise, customer engagement, and technical leadership while helping organisations accelerate their cloud transformation journeys, we'd love to hear from you.

About us Computacenter is a leading independent provider of IT infrastructure services, with about 21,000 employees worldwide. We work at the heart of digitisation, advising organisations on IT strategy, implementing the most appropriate technology and managing our customers’ infrastructures.

We offer a friendly, open working environment without too much fuss about hierarchy. We are looking for professionals with diverse competencies, personalities and strengths who want to live our shared value of teamwork and performance.

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