Azure Infrastructure Engineer

Atos is the Atos Group brand dedicated to AI-powered, secure, end-to-end digital services. Atos designs, develops, and operates critical digital environments that drive performance, resilience and sovereignty, helping public and private organizations worldwide retain control over their data and infrastructures, while meeting regulatory requirements.

As an Azure Infrastructure Engineer, you will join our Infrastructure Operations team, owning, supporting and evolving secure Microsoft Azure and hybrid Windows platforms. You will help ensure availability, performance, security and cost-effective operation across business-critical cloud services, while driving automation, standardisation and modernisation.

Working closely with cloud, network, security, application and service teams, you will design, implement and operate resilient Azure solutions across the UK&I. The role combines hands-on Azure engineering with strong Windows infrastructure expertise to support migrations, platform improvement and reliable transition into operational service.

Key Responsibilities:

• Administer, maintain and support Azure subscriptions, management groups, resource groups and core platform services within established governance controls.
• Deploy and manage Azure Virtual Machines, managed disks, availability sets/zones, virtual networks, network security groups, private endpoints, load balancing and supporting platform components.
• Operate Azure identity and access services, including Microsoft Entra ID, role-based access control, managed identities, privileged access and access reviews.
• Support Azure Backup, recovery services, business continuity and disaster recovery, including recovery testing and remediation of identified gaps.
• Use Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, alerts, dashboards and service health information to manage availability, performance and capacity.
• Manage cloud resource lifecycle, tagging, policy compliance, security posture and cost optimisation, escalating risks or exceptions where required.
• Administer and support Windows Server workloads hosted in Azure and on-premises, including Windows Server 2016, 2019 and 2022.
• Support Active Directory Domain Services, Group Policy, DNS, DFS, DHCP, RDS, IIS, Certificate Services and Windows Failover Clustering in hybrid environments.
• Perform server provisioning, configuration, hardening, patching, vulnerability remediation, upgrade and decommissioning activities.
• Develop and maintain automation using PowerShell, Azure CLI and approved scripting technologies.
• Build and support infrastructure-as-code solutions using Bicep and/or Terraform, with reusable modules, version control and peer review.
• Identify and deliver improvements that increase reliability, security, operational efficiency and service quality.
• Apply Azure Policy, role-based access controls, resource locks, tagging standards and platform guardrails in line with organisational requirements.
• Maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, architecture records and support guides for Azure and hybrid services.
• Participate in a 24x7 on-call rota as required, supporting critical Azure and Windows infrastructure services.

Technical Skills:

• Hands-on experience administering Microsoft Azure production environments, including subscriptions, resource groups, compute, storage, networking, monitoring and backup.
• Experience with Microsoft Entra ID, Azure RBAC, managed identities and secure access controls.
• Strong PowerShell automation skills, with practical experience of Azure CLI and/or Azure PowerShell.
• Experience implementing infrastructure as code using Bicep and/or Terraform through Git-based deployment workflows.
• Knowledge of Azure security, governance and compliance controls, including Azure Policy and Defender for Cloud.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across Azure, Windows, identity, network and application dependencies.

Soft Skills:

• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving abilities.
• Clear communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and within multidisciplinary teams.
• Proactive approach to technical ownership, service improvement and cloud platform standards.

Preferred (Nice-to-Have):

• Experience working within secure government, defence or critical national infrastructure environments.
• Microsoft certifications such as Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Network Engineer Associate or Azure Security Engineer Associate.

Education & Qualifications:

• Degree, apprenticeship, technical qualification or equivalent experience within an IT-related discipline.
• Relevant Microsoft Azure certification is preferred but not required.

Security Clearance: SC security clearance is required.

25 days paid leave + National Holidays Pension Scheme - contributions matched up to 10% Private Medical Cover Income Protection Life Assurance Flex Benefits Program