Azure Platform Engineer - Scalable, automated cloud

Role

Title:

Azure Platform Engineering Consultant – Taa Zure

Number of Roles: 2

Location: Newbury

Experience: 10+ Years

To provide hands‑on Azure platform engineering expertise to accelerate the delivery of Taa Zure (Telco‑as‑a‑Service on Azure) platform capabilities. The role will be embedded within Vodafone's engineering teams to co‑deliver reusable, production‑ready platform components, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD automation, observability, resilience and Fin Ops practices aligned to Vodafone's backlog and sprint cadence. The role will support secure, scalable and cost‑effective cloud services while enabling knowledge transfer and coaching so Vodafone engineers can increasingly develop, operate and evolve Taa Zure independently.

Architectural ownership, design authority, programme governance and delivery management remain with Vodafone and separate governance arrangements.

• Provide hands‑on engineering support to design, build and optimise Taa Zure cloud platform capabilities, ensuring delivered components are secure, scalable, resilient and aligned to Vodafone engineering standards.
• Develop and maintain production‑ready Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Terragrunt and Azure‑native tooling, enabling repeatable, automated and governed cloud provisioning.
• Build and refine reusable Azure platform templates and engineering patterns that can be adopted consistently across Taa Zure workloads and environments.
• Implement and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, environment management and release practices for key platform services.
• Embed observability, monitoring, resilience, security and Fin Ops practices into platform components to improve reliability, cost transparency and operational readiness.
• Actively contribute to Vodafone's engineering backlog, sprint planning, refinement, delivery execution, reviews and technical demos in line with agreed priorities.
• Coach and pair with Vodafone engineers through day‑to‑day co‑delivery, documentation and knowledge transfer, supporting increased internal capability to operate and extend Taa Zure.
• Provide engineering input to architecture, security and operations discussions while recognising that architectural ownership, design authority and governance decisions remain with Vodafone and relevant governance forums.

• Strong hands‑on experience with Microsoft Azure services, including compute, networking, storage, identity, security, monitoring and platform services.
• Proven experience delivering cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform and Terragrunt, with strong understanding of modular, reusable and policy‑driven implementation patterns.
• Experience building reusable Azure platform templates, golden paths or engineering patterns for repeatable platform adoption.
• Good understanding of Dev Ops and Dev Sec Ops  practices, including CI/CD, source control, automated testing, release management, security controls and environment governance.
• Experience operating Azure cloud‑native services using observability, alerting, logging, performance monitoring, service reliability and incident response practices.
• Practical knowledge of cloud cost optimisation and Fin Ops principles, including cost visibility, tagging, right‑sizing and efficient consumption patterns.
• Ability to work effectively as an embedded third‑party engineering consultant in a complex enterprise environment, communicating clearly with technical and non‑technical stakeholders and producing high‑quality documentation.

• Production‑ready Infrastructure as Code assets and reusable Azure platform templates.
• CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation for agreed Taa Zure platform services.
• Observability, monitoring, resilience and Fin Ops integrations embedded into delivered components.
• Technical documentation, engineering patterns and knowledge‑transfer materials to support Vodafone engineer adoption.
• Regular progress input to sprint reviews, weekly checkpoints and prioritisation discussions.

• Delivery of agreed Taa Zure platform outcomes to…