Azure Cloud Solutions Consultant

Salary: National ranging from £51,200 - £78,700 and London from £56,400 - £86,600

Are you interested in joining a team at the forefront of operations, supporting all end users and partners in their day-to-day activities, and managing the FCA’s end user services and associated suppliers?

The team/department: End User Compute provides change and run for a broad range of application and infrastructure services. We work in small cross-functional, self-organising, and autonomous teams, passionate about delivering value and having fun.

What you will be doing (the role):

• Analyzing designs to determine engineering requirements and activities.
• Conducting technical assessments and PoCs.
• Authoring and reviewing high-quality technical documentation.
• Managing Conditional Access Policies: Implementing and maintaining conditional access policies to ensure security and compliance across the organisation.
• Creating Compliance Dashboards: Developing and maintaining PowerBI dashboards to monitor compliance, optimize infrastructure services, and ensure high availability.
• Utilizing Kusto Query Language (KQL): Creating KQL queries to extract relevant data and generate visual workbooks for analysis and reporting.
• Building and maintaining the Configuration Management Database (CMDB) for Azure resources, mapping dependencies to ensure accurate asset management and resource tracking.
• Collaborating with Azure Stakeholders: Working closely with the Azure Product Architect, FinOps Analyst, and Product Owners to develop and manage Azure budgets and set up cost alerts.
• Optimizing the Azure Platform: Continuously monitoring, improving, and optimizing the Azure platform to enhance performance, security, and cost-efficiency. Leveraging automation to enhance efficiency, speed up processes, and reduce manual intervention.
• Collaborating with the Resiliency Team: Working with the Resiliency Team to develop, implement, and regularly test disaster recovery plans for Azure resources, ensuring data integrity and service continuity.

What you will get from the role:

• Opportunity to make a tangible impact on the organisation by shaping the build-out of the FCA’s Azure estate at an exciting time for the organisation.
• Participation in a friendly multi-disciplinary team affording exposure to all aspects of Microsoft Cloud technology.
• Support for your professional development, covering both technical and soft skills.
• Opportunity to Transition: Progress from an engineering role to a strategic architecture role.
• Our competitive flexible benefits scheme gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to your lifecycle. You can use this allowance to purchase additional benefits such as dental or cycle to work, or you have the option to top up your base salary by taking this as cash.

Core benefits include:

• 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays
• Private healthcare with Bupa
• A non-contributory Pension of at least 8% of basic salary each month (with contribution levels increasing with age)
• Life assurance of eight times your basic salary
• Income protection

Work Arrangement: We support hybrid working, allowing you to work from home up to 60% of the time over a month, with the remainder in one of our three office locations.

Skills and Experience - Minimum:

• Subject matter expert in Azure platforms, services, and engineering.
• Experience designing, engineering, and maintaining cloud-based solutions in Azure.
• Proficiency in Azure IAM, Conditional Access Policies, SAML SSO, VMs, Storage, Networking, Azure Functions, Defender for Cloud, Azure Firewall, Azure Virtual WAN, and VNet Peering.
• Understanding of automation techniques and configuration management tools such as Terraform, PowerShell, and Azure CLI.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform, Bicep, or ARM.
• Knowledge of Azure Policies and Landing Zone Architecture.
• Relevant Azure certifications demonstrating in-depth expertise.