Azure Infrastructure and Platform Engineer

Azure Infrastructure and Platform Engineer Full-time Hitachi Solutions Europe is a global Digital, Data and Technology consultancy, Microsoft Gold partner and Cloud Services partner, specialising in end-to-end transformation. As a global consultancy firm working across the private and public sectors, we specialise in Dynamics 365 Business Applications, Power Platform, including Azure, Application Modernisation and Data & Analytics. Our highly skilled team help drive improvements, creating efficiency and growth within organisations.

We are committed to Microsoft technologies, with a mission to revolutionise modern businesses. To achieve this we employ the best, most dedicated talent to deliver outstanding technology solutions to both our local and global clients. Hitachi Solutions offers competitive compensation packages (incl. bonuses), pension and benefits plans. Work/Life balance is an essential part of our culture, and all our employees are home workers, although you will be expected to come into our or customer's offices regularly.

We operate a comprehensive career development programme that includes mentoring and training plans to ensure that you will continue to grow and develop your career  are looking for an Azure Infrastructure and Platform Engineer to provide L2/L3 support for business-critical Azure-hosted solutions. The role focuses on operating and supporting Azure infrastructure, networking, platform services, integrations, monitoring, and security controls. The successful candidate will be comfortable troubleshooting cloud-native applications and working closely with development teams, while remaining primarily focused on platform operations, reliability, and service management.

Experience working within enterprise Azure Landing Zone environments, including governance, connectivity, and security controls, would be advantageous. Security Clearance:
This role requires the successful candidate to hold, or be eligible to obtain, UK Government SC (Security Check) clearance.

• Platform & Infrastructure Support:
  Own incidents through to resolution across the Azure platforms and infrastructure underpinning cloud-native applications, meeting agreed service levels and operational targets.
• PaaS & Integration:
  Operate, monitor, and troubleshoot Azure platform services including App Services, Functions, Logic Apps, storage, databases, Service Bus, Event Grid, and API Management (APIM).
• Monitoring & Observability:
  Maintain platform and application health using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, and automated alerting, acting proactively to prevent service disruption.
• Incident & Problem Management:
  Diagnose issues across infrastructure, platform, application, and integration layers. Perform root cause analysis and implement corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• Dev Ops & Release Management:
  Support CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code deployments, environment promotion, and controlled releases across development, test, and production environments.
• Security & Governance:
  Support Azure security, identity, governance, and compliance controls including RBAC, PIM, Conditional Access, Azure Policy, Key Vault, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
• Developer
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Troubleshoot application issues, analyse logs and telemetry, debug straightforward defects, and work closely with development teams to resolve platform and application concerns.
• Operational Improvement:
  Identify opportunities to improve reliability, performance, monitoring, automation, documentation, and operational processes.
• On-Call Availability:
  Participate in a paid on-call and out-of-hours support rota to maintain service availability outside core business hours.

• Demonstrable experience running and supporting cloud-native Azure environments.
• Deep working knowledge of Azure Networking & Connectivity;
  Design, operate and troubleshoot hub-spoke networking, Azure Firewall, Application Gateway/WAF, Private Endpoints, DNS, VPN/Express Route, routing, network security controls and hybrid connectivity across platform and workload landing zones.
• Experience in Identity & Access Management (IAM);
  Manage RBAC, PIM, Conditional Access, Managed Identities and Service Principals, ensuring secure access, least-privilege governance and compliance.
• Experience supporting Azure governance and security capabilities including Azure Policy, Management Groups, Key Vault, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and subscription governance.
• Strong working knowledge of Azure PaaS services including App Services, Functions, Logic Apps, Storage Accounts, and Azure databases, including configuration, scaling, resilience, and performance optimisation.
• Experience with Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, alerting, dashboards, and KQL-based troubleshooting.
• Strong understanding of SQL Server and Azure SQL, with exposure to Cosmos DB, Entra , Single Sign-On (SSO), and core Azure IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services.
• Experience operating…