Azure Engineer and Architect

Make an Impact at RSM UK

As one of the world’s largest networks of Audit, Tax and Consulting firms, RSM delivers big ideas and premium service to help businesses thrive. We are fast-growing with big ambitions. If you are looking for a firm where you can build a future and make an impact, then this is the place for you.

Our Consulting business brings together diverse advisory experts to deliver six core solutions: Business Transformation, Forensic, Deal Services, Restructuring, Finance Function Support and Risk and Governance.

With a bold and ambitious strategy for the next phase, Consulting is investing in its own digital and technology platforms to enable innovation, automation and scalable delivery across our services. As part of this, we are establishing a Consulting‑owned and managed Azure environment, operating within firm‑wide guardrails but designed specifically to meet Consulting’s delivery, innovation and regulatory needs. This role will play a critical technical and leadership role in designing, building, and governing that environment.

Reporting into Consulting Platforms lead, the Consulting Azure Engineer and Architect will work closely with Consulting Digital leadership, delivery teams and internal IT (National Technology (NT)) Cloud Core and Security teams. The role combines architecture, engineering and platform ownership, and requires someone equally comfortable shaping strategy, defining standards, and rolling up their sleeves to implement solutions.

You’ll Make An Impact By

• Azure Platform Ownership & Architecture – Own and design Consulting’s Azure platform, defining target architecture, environments, shared services and reusable components that enable secure, scalable and innovative delivery.
• Governance & Design Authority – Act as the Azure design authority for Consulting, defining standards, patterns and guardrails in alignment with firm‑wide policies, and ensuring compliant, proportionate platform use.
• Security, Risk & Compliance by Design – Embed security‑by‑design principles across the platform, working closely with Security, Risk and Privacy teams to meet regulatory, legal and InfoSec requirements.
• FinOps & Operational Excellence – Lead cost management and FinOps practices, and define operational processes covering provisioning, monitoring, resilience, disaster recovery and continuous platform improvement.
• Hands‑on Engineering & Enablement – Build and configure core Azure platform components, support team onboarding, and act as a technical mentor and escalation point for Azure across Consulting.

What We Are Looking For

You will be a technically strong, pragmatic and collaborative Azure specialist who combines systems thinking with a delivery mindset.

• Significant hands‑on experience designing and operating Azure environments in a regulated or enterprise context.
• Strong understanding of Azure core services, including:
  • Identity (Entra ID, RBAC, managed identities)
  • Networking (VNets, private endpoints, firewalls, connectivity patterns)
  • Security services and monitoring
  • Azure governance (Policy, Blueprints / equivalents)
• Experience defining platform‑level architectures, not just individual workloads.
• Practical experience implementing infrastructure using automation and infrastructure‑as‑code.
• Strong understanding of cloud operating models, including environment management, governance and FinOps.
• Confidence working with senior stakeholders and cross‑functional teams, including the ability to challenge constructively.

What We Can Offer You

• Hybrid and Flexible working
• 27 Days Holiday (with the option of purchasing additional days)
• Lifestyle, Health, and Wellbeing including financial wellbeing benefits such as financial tools, electric car scheme and access to a virtual GP
• Access to a suite of 300+ courses on demand developed by our inhouse Talent Development team

Diversity and Inclusion at RSM: At RSM, we want to create a strong sense of belonging so that people of all identities, backgrounds, and cultures feel they can bring their true self to work. Our clients come from all walks of life. We aim to achieve that same diversity of background, experience and perspective in our own teams, so that we can genuinely understand our client’s needs. Diverse teams bring a broader range of ideas and insights to work. That’s why we’re working together to ensure our firm’s principles and processes support a firm culture that embraces difference and strengthens inclusion.