Azure Engineer

Remote

United Kingdom

Full Time

04-11-2024

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Job Specifications

Azure Engineer required by a global organisation. Fully remote role, Inside IR35, potential long term opportunity.
Skills Required
Azure Cloud Automation/Compliance/Policy Management using the following:
ARM templates
Pipelines (YAML/AZ-CLI)
IaC (Bicep/Terraform/etc.) With Terraform as the standard
Azure platform Monitoring/Logging experience is required
Conceptual knowledge and experience with observability platforms
Understand the data source ingestion for logs and metrics and the data tools in Azure Monitor
Knowledge and experience working with blob storage, Mongo DB, MS SQL DB architectures

Conceptual knowledge of:
Azure Monitor components
Azure Storage Solutions - Management and security
State Configuration Management (Windows primarily and Linux a plus) including experience with:
PowerShell DSC (Desired State Configuration)
Intune

Excellent communication skills also required.
Initial 2 month contract but with a potential long term extension.
Hancock and Parsons Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Hancock and Parsons Ltd is an Equal Opportunities employer; we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

About the Company

Hancock & Parsons was founded in 2010 to focus on recruiting primarily, but not exclusively for the Microsoft Partner Community We have firmly established ourselves as recruitment specialists in this space through our deep understanding of the market and an unwavering commitment to understanding our client’s needs. We keep up to date with the latest Microsoft technology stack and fully understand the personality traits required for candidates to fit into a consultancy environment. Over the past 14 years we are proud to ha... Know more

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