Azure Engineer - 12 month FTC

  • SOFTCAT PLC
  • Manchester, Lancashire
  • Aug 07, 2025
Full time I.T. & Communications

Job Description

Would you like to kick start your career in a supportive,collaborativeand innovative company?

Do you enjoyworking as part of an enthusiastic, passionate,and collaborative team?

Join our Cloud Operations team!

The Cloud Operations team is a dynamic, skilled group renowned for its fast-paced work environment and dedication to delivering exceptional client service. Specialising in complex and critical support needs, it helps industry-leading customers overcome their most challenging cloud-related issues.

Success. The Softcat Way.

It's an exciting time to be at Softcat, one of the UK's most successful technology solutions businesses.We help customers to use technology to succeed, by putting our employees first.We've reached the £1 billion+ parevenue milestone, opened our first office outside the UK and picked up a series of industry awards. We've got even biggerplans for the future. So, if you share our drive and ambition, get ready to achieve more from your career.

As an Azure Engineer, you will be a critical escalation point within the support team. Your primary responsibility will be investigating and resolving support cases escalated by the service desk team, ensuring issues are managed and resolved effectively and efficiently.

As an Azure Engineer, you'll beresponsible for:

  • Take ownership of complex Microsoft Azure incidents, changes, service requests, and problem records, driving them to resolution.
  • Serve as a technical escalation point within the team.
  • Achieve and maintain Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) as defined by the Support Team Manager.
  • Collaborate with Service Delivery teams to provide exceptional Client support.
  • Partner with the Cloud Operations team to handle high-priority requests during out-of-hours coverage via an On-Call rota.

We'd love you to have

  • Experience working on Windows and Linux operating systems.
  • Beneficial Microsoft Azure certifications:
    • Azure Solutions Architect
    • Azure Administrator Associate
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform would be beneficial
  • Experience managing enterprise database systems, including SQL and MySQL would be beneficial
  • A demonstrated passion for continuous learning, with a drive to stay current with the latest industry trends and emerging technologies.

We also acknowledge that the confidence gap and imposter syndrome are a real thing and can get in the way of us meeting fantastic talent, so please don't hesitate to apply - we would love to hear from you!

Work in a way that works for you

We recognise that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:

  • Working flexible hours - flexing the times you start and finish during the day
  • Flexibility around school pick up and drop offs

Working with us

Wherever you work, we want you to experience the freedom and autonomy to realise your potential. You will feel supported by a team that celebrates individuality, encourages different perspectives,and embraces every background.

To become part of the success story, please apply now.

If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we can provide support or adjustments that you may need throughout our recruitment process or any mitigating circumstance you wish for us to consider. Anyinformation you share on your application will be treated in confidence. You can find out more about life at Softcat and our commitments to diversity and inclusion at

Here at Softcat, we don't prohibit the use of AI (artificial intelligence) in our application process, as we understand how far it can go to creating a truly equitable candidate experience. That being said, as a culture-driven organisation, we believe that the genuine essence of each person is what truly matters, so we highly encourage you to be as authenticallyyouas possible when submitting your application to showcase your true and whole self.

Fieldhouse Lane, Marlow, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom, SL7 1LW

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We offer a competitive salary and benefits package and will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefits include:

Pension Share incentive plan Life Assurance Holiday

Two days extra holiday on top of your usual entitlement on your birthday and at Christmas

Trips

Opportunity to qualify for Director hosted (often michelin star) lunches as well as half and full year icentive trips to places all over the world

Vouchers

Technology vouchers, activity passes, restaurant discount card

Partner/family Benefits

Option to add your partner/family to some of the benefits

Access to Perklife, our dedicated portal for all perks and flexible benefits

Maternity, Paternity and Adoption support

Two days extra holiday on top of your usual entitlement on your birthday and at Christmas

Trips

Opportunity to qualify for Director hosted (often michelin star) lunches as well as half and full year icentive trips to places all over the world

Vouchers

Technology vouchers, activity passes, restaurant discount card

Partner/family Benefits

Option to add your partner/family to some of the benefits

Access to Perklife, our dedicated portal for all perks and flexible benefits

Maternity, Paternity and Adoption support

Two days extra holiday on top of your usual entitlement on your birthday and at Christmas

Trips

Opportunity to qualify for Director hosted (often michelin star) lunches as well as half and full year icentive trips to places all over the world

Vouchers

Technology vouchers, activity passes, restaurant discount card

Partner/family Benefits

Option to add your partner/family to some of the benefits

Access to Perklife, our dedicated portal for all perks and flexible benefits

Maternity, Paternity and Adoption support