Job Description

Role: Contract Lead Azure Platform Engineer

Day rate: £500pd-£600pd (Inside IR35)

Contract length: Immediate start until end of April 2025

Location: Remote working with occasional travel

We are working with our large scale organisation who require an Azure Platform Engineer to help build their Data Platform, which will be an Azure-based data warehouse, centered around Snowflake. The role has been to setup and build out the Azure environment and setup Azure Data Factory pipelines to ingest data from a range of source systems into Snowflake. The client require support to provide hypercare for the infrastructure build and engineering support to build out Data Factory pipelines and support serving new use cases. You will be responsible for leading and managing the team of two additional engineers as part of the wider Data Services Team.

Skills and experience required

Azure Platform DevOps, Infrastructure Automation & deployment experience

Experience creating and/or maintaining production software delivery pipelines using github actions to deploy into Azure. 

Experience with Infrastructure as Code – Terraform

A good working knowledge and understanding of the following Azure component: Azure networking (vnets, subnets, private endpoints) / Azure blob storage (containers, retention policies, file transfers) / Azure role assignments / Azure Key Vault / Managed identities

Experience with any of: Azure networking (network security groups, route tables) / Azure Data Factory / Azure App Configuration / Azure Container Apps, Azure Container Registry / Azure Front Door / Azure API Management / C# .NET experience

Experience with the following SQL Server components: SQL Server databases (tables, stored procedures, views, TSQL syntax) / SSIS / SSRS

The role is requiring the successful candidate for an immediate start with interviews to be held at short notice, please consider this when applying for the role.

The role will be remote working with occasional travel to client site.

If you are interested in the role and would like to apply, please click on the link for immediate consideration