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# Azure Platform Engineer

- **Company:** Bright Purple Resourcing Ltd
- **Location:** Bedford, UK
- **Salary:** £117,000.0 - £136,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Azure, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, Bicep, Terraform
- **Published:** August 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.brightpurple.co.uk/job/azure-platform-engineer-6164.aspx

## About the Role

* Strong commercial experience with Microsoft Azure.
 * Experience building and supporting enterprise Azure platforms.
 * Infrastructure as Code experience, ideally Terraform or Bicep.
 * Experience with Azure DevOps and CI/CD.
 * Strong understanding of networking, identity and security within Azure.
 * Experience with monitoring, observability and platform performance.
 * Passion for automation and modern platform engineering.
 * Previous experience supporting SaaS or software product environments would be advantageous.

## Description

Are you an experienced Azure Platform Engineer looking to help shape the cloud platform behind a market-leading software product?

We're working with an innovative software company looking for a Platform Engineer to take ownership of their Azure environment, ensuring it's secure, scalable and resilient. You'll play a key role in maintaining and evolving the cloud platform that supports their product engineering teams, enabling them to deliver new features quickly and reliably.

This is an opportunity to join a collaborative engineering team where platform, automation and cloud best practice are at the heart of everything they do.

What you'll be doing:

 * Design, build and maintain the Azure platform.
 * Drive platform automation and Infrastructure as Code.
 * Manage cloud networking, identity, security and governance.
 * Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
 * Monitor platform health, performance and availability.
 * Optimise cloud infrastructure for resilience, scalability and cost.
 * Work closely with development teams to provide a reliable, secure and high-performing platform.
 * Champion cloud best practice and continuous improvement.


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