We are seeking an experienced Azure Engineer to support a complex cloud migration programme.
The role will support the existing in-house team and provide SME guidance and expertise as we migrate business critical workloads to Azure and to support the transition and early life support as well as embedding the correct processes and ways of working with Azure.
The role will require strong hands on technical expertise and demonstrable experience of managing similar Azure transformations.
While the role supports the wider infrastructure estate, the primary focus is the migration, and operation of Azure based platforms and services.
Responsibilities :
- Collaborate with the IT team to develop and implement cloud migration strategies
- Design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure using Azure services
- Monitor and optimize cloud infrastructure performance and costs
- Supporting IT Application and Change and Delivery Teams on a pipeline of IT Operations maintenance and enhancement activities
- Troubleshoot and resolve any issues related to Azure services
- Vulnerability and endpoint management across the infrastructure estate prioritising remediation, risk levels and closure within SLA
- Monitor the performance of systems and troubleshoot any issues that arise
- Collaborate with other IT teams to ensure the security and integrity of our systems
- Keep up to date with the latest technology trends and make recommendations for improvement
- Provide technical expertise and support to other IT teams and business units
- Participate in disaster recovery planning and testing and implement security measures to protect against cyber threats and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements
- Support, development and enhancement of cloud services (IAAS, PAAS and SAAS)
- Delivery of 2nd/3rd line operational support for IT services including working with 3rd party providers
- Provide end to end support for the migration programme using Azure Migrate where necessary covering assessment, planning, replication, testing, and cutover.
- Provide hands on technical support during migration waves and cutover, minimising downtime and ensuring accuracy.
- Solid understanding of migration life cycle: assessment, replication, testing, cutover, and validation.
- Comply with all relevant legal and regulatory obligations including the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Standards and Regulations, and Principles.
Skills and experience
- Automation & IaC (Ideally Terraform)
- Ability to work in a small team and lead from the front providing guidance to support knowledge transition • Strong networking skills
- Analytical thinker as well as strong Planning, Problem Solving and organization skills
- Experience of vulnerability, endpoint management and security patching tools
- Demonstrable experience in right sizing & reserved instances management and the ability to regularly review under utilised resources and commit to Reserved Instances for stable workloads to reduce costs.
- Ability to set up Azure Cost Management alerts that notify owners-or even shut down dev environments- when spending exceeds threshold
- Forcing automation compliance by applying Azure Policies that prevent the creation of non compliant resources.
- Configure Azure Automation runbooks and Alert Rules to automatically restart services or scale resources when performance thresholds are met
- CI/CD Pipeline Integration: Embed infrastructure changes into Azure Pipelines so that any environment tweak follows a formal review and testing process.
- Working together
- Integrity and respect
- Inclusive
- Personal impact and growth
- Driving high standards
- Client - centric
- Responsible Business
Hybrid working - We adopt a hybrid and flexible working approach, dependent on the requirements of the role and subject to manager approval.
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