Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure Architect

If you’re an experienced Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer or Architect who still enjoys being technically hands-on, this could be a particularly interesting opportunity.

We’re looking for someone with strong experience across both Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 who can operate at architecture level but doesn’t want to move away from engineering and delivery.

You’ll be joining a highly respected international organisation with a complex Microsoft estate and an ongoing programme of cloud transformation, modernisation and company acquisitions.

This isn’t a role where you’ll simply produce architecture and hand it over to somebody else.

You’ll work closely with engineering teams from initial design through to implementation - helping solve technical problems, guiding deployments and ensuring solutions work in practice.

What you’ll be doing

The role will give you exposure to a wide range of Microsoft infrastructure projects, including:

• Designing and delivering Azure infrastructure and hybrid cloud solutions
• Designing and evolving Azure Landing Zones using Cloud Adoption Framework principles
• Working across the Microsoft 365 estate, including Entra ID, identity, Intune and associated infrastructure services
• Planning and leading Microsoft 365 migrations and tenant consolidation
• Supporting the integration of newly acquired businesses into the wider Microsoft environment
• Designing solutions and producing practical HLDs and LLDs
• Working closely with engineers throughout implementation and deployment
• Using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code to standardise Azure deployments
• Working with Azure DevOps and deployment pipelines
• Supporting Azure migration, modernisation and infrastructure transformation programmes
• Developing secure identity, networking and cloud governance solutions
• Helping optimise Azure environments from both a technical and cost perspective

You’ll also have the opportunity to evaluate and introduce emerging Microsoft technologies including Copilot, AI Foundry and Microsoft Fabric.

The two most important areas for this role are Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365.

You’ll ideally have progressed from a strong infrastructure or cloud engineering background into architecture while remaining close to the technology.

We’d particularly like to hear from people with experience across several of the following:

• Microsoft Azure
• Microsoft 365
• Azure Landing Zones / CAF
• Terraform / Infrastructure as Code
• Azure DevOps
• Entra ID and hybrid identity
• Intune
• Azure networking and security
• Microsoft 365 migrations
• Tenant-to-tenant migrations
• Cloud migration and modernisation
• HLDs and LLDs
• Working closely with engineers through implementation

Experience of FinOps, Azure Cost Management, Power Platform, Dynamics 365, Copilot/AI governance or working across multiple companies or acquired businesses would be useful, but we’re not expecting one person to be an expert in everything.

What matters most is that you’re technically strong across Azure and Microsoft 365, comfortable operating at architecture level and still enjoy getting involved in how solutions are actually delivered.

• £75,000-£90,000 basic salary
• Up to 20% annual bonus
• 10.5% employer pension contribution
• Private medical insurance
• Employee share scheme
• Hybrid working - 3 days per week in London
• Exposure to varied global transformation and acquisition programmes
• Opportunity to influence the future Microsoft technology landscape
• Long-term career development within a complex international organisation

If you’ve reached architecture level but don’t want to become disconnected from the technology, this is an opportunity to combine architecture, hands-on technical delivery and large-scale Microsoft transformation in one role.