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# Azure Platform Engineer - Operations & Reliability

- **Company:** Shareforce Ltd
- **Location:** UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** £55,000.0 - £65,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, Log Analysis, SQL Azure, Role-Based Access Control, Azure DevOps Pipelines, Kusto Query Language, Virtual Machines, Data Logging, Cloud Monitoring, Git, SC Clearance, Bicep, Terraform, Key Vault
- **Published:** July 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.shareforce.co.uk/jobs/apply/ats-redirect/?id=1359-1

## About the Role

* Minimum 3+ years commercial experience supporting Microsoft Azure environments.
 * Hands-on knowledge of core Azure infrastructure and platform services.
 * Experience troubleshooting incidents using monitoring and logging tools.
 * A practical understanding of Azure networking, Entra ID and RBAC.
 * Experience with Azure DevOps, Git, CI/CD or release processes.
 * Exposure to Bicep, ARM templates or Terraform.
 * Strong troubleshooting, communication and customer-facing skills.
 * Eligibility to obtain UK Government SC clearance.

You don't need to meet every requirement. We're particularly interested in candidates with solid Azure fundamentals and the ambition to develop into a well-rounded platform engineer.

## Description

We're looking for an Azure Platform Engineer to join a growing Managed Services team supporting secure, business-critical Azure environments for public-sector and regulated organisations.

This role would suit someone with a strong foundation in commercially supporting Azure environments for clients, who is ready to broaden their skills across platform operations, networking, security and automation.

You'll take ownership of day-to-day incidents and operational activities, collaborating with senior engineers on complex issues., * Provide L2 and initial L3 support across production Azure environments.

 * Investigate incidents, service requests and platform alerts through to resolution or escalation.
 * Monitor platform health using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, KQL and automated alerting.
 * Support Azure infrastructure and platform services, including virtual machines, storage, App Service, Functions and Azure SQL.
 * Troubleshoot networking, connectivity, identity and access issues.
 * Support Azure DevOps pipelines and Infrastructure as Code deployments.
 * Help maintain security and governance controls, including RBAC, Azure Policy, Key Vault and Defender for Cloud.
 * Improve monitoring, automation, documentation and operational processes.
 * Participate in the paid on-call rota once fully trained.


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