The Role
We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Azure Infrastructure Engineer & Architect to join our London-based Production Technology team. This is a senior, hands-on role combining Azure infrastructure engineering, solution architecture and customer-facing technical engagement. You will design, build and evolve secure, scalable and highly available Azure environments while working closely with engineering, operations, architecture and customer teams.
Alongside delivery, you will support pre-sales engagements by understanding customer requirements, shaping Azure solutions and clearly communicating technical designs, trade-offs and implementation approaches to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Azure Engineering & Architecture: Design, build and maintain secure, scalable, resilient and highly available Azure environments, translating business and customer requirements into practical architectures that balance availability, performance, security, supportability and cost.
- Infrastructure as Code & Automation: Design and maintain production-grade Terraform, including reusable modules, standards and deployment patterns. Champion IaC best practice across source control, code review, testing, state management, versioning and automation, replacing manual processes wherever possible.
- CI/CD & Platform Engineering: Build and improve secure, reliable deployment pipelines using GitHub and Azure DevOps, integrating Terraform and other automation tooling.
- Networking, Security & Containers: Design Azure networking, identity, access and security controls, and support containerised workloads using Docker, Kubernetes and AKS where appropriate.
- Customer Solutions & Pre-Sales: Work directly with customers through discovery sessions, workshops and technical presentations, shaping solutions and clearly communicating technical designs, decisions and trade-offs. Contribute to proposals, statements of work, technical responses and delivery estimates.
- Operations & Observability: Implement monitoring, logging and alerting, troubleshoot complex production issues and continuously improve the resilience, performance and supportability of Azure environments.
- Technical Leadership & Collaboration: Act as a senior technical voice across Production Technology, partnering with Cloud Technology to develop common engineering standards, provide architectural guidance, challenge designs constructively, mentor colleagues and promote engineering best practice.
Ready to make your mark on Azure? Join Databarracks in a senior, hands-on role where you’ll shape cloud architecture, influence technical direction and build solutions that make a real difference for our customers.
If you’re ready to take ownership, solve complex challenges and help shape what great Azure engineering looks like, we’d love to hear from you.
