Senior Azure Platform Engineer: IaC, CI​/CD & FinOps

• Location: Newbury Office – Hybrid
• Experience
  
  Required:
  
  10+ Years

To provide hands‑on Azure platform engineering expertise to accelerate the delivery of their cloud initiative (Telco-as-a-Service on Azure) platform capabilities. The role will be embedded within the company’s engineering teams to co‑deliver reusable, production‑ready platform components, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD automation, observability, resilience, and Fin Ops practices aligned to the client’s backlog and sprint cadence.

The role will support secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud services while enabling knowledge transfer and coaching so internal engineers can increasingly develop, operate, and evolve the platform independently. Architectural ownership, design authority, programme governance, and delivery management remain with the company under separate governance arrangements.

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

• Azure Expertise: Strong hands‑on experience with Microsoft Azure services, including compute, networking, storage, identity, security, monitoring, and platform services.
• IaC Proficiency: Proven experience delivering cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (preferably Terraform and Terragrunt) with a strong understanding of modular, reusable, and policy‑driven implementation patterns.
• Template Design: Experience building reusable Azure platform templates, "golden paths," or engineering patterns for repeatable platform adoption.
• Dev Sec Ops  Practices: Good understanding of Dev Ops and Dev Sec Ops  practices, including CI/CD, source control, automated testing, release management, security controls, and environment governance.
• SRE & Monitoring: Experience operating Azure cloud-native services using observability, alerting, logging, performance monitoring, service reliability, and incident response practices.
• Fin Ops Knowledge: Practical knowledge of cloud cost optimisation and Fin Ops principles, including cost visibility, tagging, right‑sizing, and efficient consumption patterns.
• Consulting
  
  Skills:
  
  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 platform services.
• Observability, monitoring, resilience, and Fin Ops integrations embedded into delivered components.
• Technical documentation, engineering…