Position: Azure Cloud Architect
Suitable for: Azure Architect, Azure Cloud Architect with 5+ years Azure experience
Location: Hybrid – Home based, with the expectation to attend the Milton Keynes office at least once a month and as and when required.
Salary: £70k + bens
Please note that unfortunately, our client is unable to offer sponsorship
Our client is a healthcare software development company that build and deliver market leading applications. They have high ambitions and are looking to bring in highly skilled Azure Cloud Architect to help continue their adoption of Azure-native services and building a best-of-breed scalable SaaS platform for their solutions.
The Azure Cloud Architect will need to have 5+ years enterprise experience with Azure, who can demonstrate a real passion for cloud technologies, with strong problem solving and critical thinking, good communication skills and a strong work ethic.
The person we are looking for will need to have
5+ years enterprise experience with Azure, who can demonstrate a real passion for cloud technologies, with strong problem solving and critical thinking, good communication skills and a strong work ethic. They will be able to evaluate their approaches based on evolving requirements and be able to apply a degree of pragmatism, ensuring that solutions are realistic and deliverable.
Experience
- Minimum of 5 years’ commercial experience with Azure
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience as Azure Cloud Architect, Azure Architect, Solution Architect or similar
- Strong documentation and diagramming skills to convey complex concepts in a simple manner.
- Proven experience with Azure DevOps (ADO)
An Understanding Of Azure PaaS Components. Key Areas
- AKS (deployment + management)
- API Management
- App Services
- Azure SQL
- Functions
- Networking
- App Insights
- Data Factory
- Databricks
Solid Understanding Of
- Terraform
- HELM charts
- Flux
- Powershell / Azure CLI
- Azure Well-architected framework
Desirable
- Healthcare or Government related industry experience
- Understanding of JIRA and Confluence
- Microsoft certification(s) in Azure, such as AZ-305 (Azure Solutions Architect)
Experience is valued over accreditation, however, as they are a Microsoft partner, there will be encouragement to gain accreditation during employment.
The Role
Working within the Architecture team collaboratively with other members of the DevOps/Cloud governance group, the Azure Cloud Architect will have an influence and diverse workload covering (but not limited to):
- Design and develop prototype Infrastructure, that aligns with industry best practices such as the Azure Well-Architected Framework, to prove concepts and provide documentation/guidance for production implementations.
- Design scalable, highly-available and secure solutions that fit product functional requirements.
- Work closely with others, such as Development or Platform teams, to agree concepts/solutions that fulfil complex requirements yet remain achievable.
- Work closely with the Security teams to design secure solutions from the get-go and assist with validating designs against best practices.
- Keeping up to date with emerging technologies and advising on how they could be used to better the existing architecture (this will likely include completing a PoC).
Full Job Description Is Available On Request.
To apply: Please follow the online application process and upload your CV, in Word format
Please note: You must be eligible to work in the UK for your application to be considered (
sorry, our client is unable to offer sponsorship). Due to large numbers of applications, unfortunately we cannot provide detailed feedback to everyone, however, if you wish to find out how your application is progressing, please call or e-mail the office and someone will help you / get back to you.
