Azure Infrastructure Engineer - 12 month fixed term contract
This role is a 12 month fixed term contract and can be based in our Birmingham, Croydon or Belfast City centre office with a hybrid workstyle.
What does the role entail?
- Maintaining and implementing new solutions within Isio’s Azure tenants, ensuring alerts are handled, virtual machines are maintained, and new resources are set up according to best practice.
- Implementation and maintenance of Automation tooling to improve efficiency of deployments, maintenance tasks and any other recurring activities.
- Implementation and maintenance of Monitoring tooling such as DataDog to report on performance and availability of systems across multiple tenants.
- Maintaining and implementing new solutions within Isio’s M365 stack including Entra, InTune, M365 Admin Portal, and Defender.
- Aiding the improvement of the security posture of the business by ensuring security standards are met, following best practice, and assisting with audit information.
- Working on varying projects of different sizes to implement new solutions and improve existing ones within the IT stack.
- Working with the service desk as an escalation point, highlighting key issues and tackling root causes.
- Ensuring implemented resources are fully documented in Confluence or equivalent documentation tool.
What we’re looking for?
Essential
- Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) hosting suite.
- Strong proven knowledge of Azure services such as Entra ID, App Services, Storage, Backups, Conditional Access, Front Door, and Load Balancers.
- Experience with O365 Suite Administration, Intune & Defender for Endpoint.
- Strong experience of using tools to automate regular activities (e.g. Tines, N8N, Zapier, Power Automate, PowerShell).
- Use of Azure DevOps or similar tools to deploy Infrastructure As Code into Azure – experience with ARM or Bicep templates and YAML pipelines.
- Experience of cloud native/serverless components hosted in Microsoft Azure including containerisation and App Service Plans.
- Strong system monitoring tooling experience to identify and troubleshoot performance and availability issues.
- Ability to communicate with stakeholders effectively across varying levels of technical knowledge.
- Great communication and problem‑solving skills with the ability to work under pressure.
- Strong technical knowledge with an aptitude for learning.
- Strong documentation skills to ensure all solutions are documented to a high standard.
- Self‑motivated individual able to complete tasks independently and as part of a team.
- Change management experience.
Desirable
- Experience of Windows server administration – Active Directory, DNS, IIS, Update Management, performance troubleshooting through log analysis.
- Familiarity with security and compliance standards, e.g. experience in an ISO 27001 certified environment.
- SharePoint Online experience.
- Familiarity with mail flow and security solutions such as ProofPoint and ONDmarc.
- Experience working in a regulated industry such as telecoms, financial services, or utilities.
- Experience with Jira & Confluence for work management & documentation.
- Networking experience – LAN/WAN/SDWAN/Azure networking such as routing, firewalls, network peering, etc.
- Microsoft certifications relating to Infrastructure within Azure.
- Experience with configuration management database tooling.
Benefits
Hybrid flexible approach to work, supporting a work‑life balance.
Equal Opportunity Statement
Isio Group is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates.
Reasonable Adjustment
If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact hrrecruitment@ISIO.com.
