Senior Azure Cloud / Platform Engineer

Senior Azure Cloud / Platform Engineer

Full-Time | Remote | LKR 300,000–350,000 per month

We are looking for a Senior Azure Cloud / Platform Engineer to take ownership of the cloud infrastructure supporting a new technology platform for a UK-based financial services organisation.

This is a hands-on infrastructure role focused on Microsoft Azure, cloud security, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, networking, monitoring and production reliability.

You will be responsible for building and maintaining the Azure environment that sits underneath the application. This is not an application development or front-end role.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain production Azure infrastructure

• Establish and maintain separate development, testing and production environments

• Build infrastructure using Terraform and/or Bicep

• Configure Azure networking including VNets, subnets, private endpoints, private DNS and NSGs

• Manage Azure SQL and/or PostgreSQL environments, including high availability, backups, point-in-time recovery and disaster recovery

• Configure Microsoft Entra ID, application registrations, managed identities and RBAC

• Implement secure authentication and access-control practices

• Manage Azure Key Vault and secure secret-management approaches

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and/or Azure DevOps

• Support secure, controlled deployments into production

• Deploy and manage workloads using Azure App Service and/or Azure Container Apps

• Implement monitoring and observability using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics and KQL

• Take ownership of production incidents, troubleshooting and system reliability

• Carry out backup and recovery testing and maintain appropriate disaster-recovery procedures

• Support security reviews and remediation of infrastructure-related issues

• Monitor cloud usage and costs and identify opportunities for optimisation

• Maintain clear technical documentation, infrastructure standards and operational runbooks

• Work independently and take ownership of the Azure platform as it develops

What We’re Looking For

You should have strong commercial experience working with Microsoft Azure in production environments.

Essential experience includes:

• 4+ years of hands-on Azure experience, with substantial production exposure

• Strong experience designing and managing Azure infrastructure

• Experience writing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or Bicep

• Strong understanding of Azure networking

• Practical experience with Microsoft Entra ID / Azure AD

• Experience managing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and/or Azure DevOps

• Experience with Azure SQL and/or PostgreSQL in production

• Practical experience with Azure Key Vault and managed identities

• Experience with Azure App Service and/or Azure Container Apps

• Strong understanding of cloud security and access management

• Experience with Linux, Docker and Git

• Experience with Azure monitoring and observability

• Experience responding to and resolving real production incidents

• Strong written and spoken English

• Ability to work independently and take ownership of infrastructure rather than simply following predefined processes

Strongly Preferred

• Experience working within financial services or another regulated environment

• Experience with Azure Policy and/or Microsoft Defender for Cloud

• Experience supporting production migrations or data migrations

• Experience carrying out disaster-recovery or backup restoration exercises

• Experience with both Terraform and Bicep

• Experience with Azure Cost Management

• Experience working with Microsoft Graph

• Python and/or PowerShell experience

• Experience working as the primary infrastructure/cloud engineer within a small team

• Relevant Microsoft Azure certifications such as AZ-305, AZ-400, AZ-500 or AZ-104

This role is not primarily focused on:

• Front-end development

• React or other UI development

• Full-time application development

• Data science or machine learning

• AWS/GCP infrastructure

• Kubernetes/AKS as a primary specialism

• Database schema or product development

The strongest candidates will be Azure-focused infrastructure and platform engineers rather than application developers or Kubernetes specialists.

Working Arrangement

• Full-time, remote position

• Long-term opportunity with a UK-based organisation

• Minimum 4 hours of daily working-time overlap with UK business hours

• Strong written and spoken English required

What You’ll Get

• Salary: LKR 300,000–350,000 per month

• Fully remote working

• Opportunity to work with a UK financial services organisation

• Hands-on ownership of a modern Azure platform

• Exposure to infrastructure, cloud security, DevOps and production engineering

• Opportunity to work on a greenfield technology environment

• Long-term role with significant responsibility and autonomy

If you are an experienced Azure engineer who enjoys building secure, reliable infrastructure and taking genuine ownership of production systems, we would like to hear from you.