Sopra Steria's Government and Transport sector is on the lookout for an Azure Engineering Lead.
This senior role offers a unique opportunity to collaborate with the Practice Director and other function leads to scale and grow our Azure business.
You'll have the chance to influence the technical direction and facilitate the growth of the team, playing a pivotal role in shaping the future of our Azure Practice.
At Sopra Steria, we cultivate a professional services culture where teams influence, sell, and deliver specialist solutions.
We provide an environment that encourages self-learning, career management, and personal growth.
Join us to be part of a dynamic team that values innovation, excellence, and collaboration.
We can offer great career progression opportunities, ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs and training and development opportunities.
What you'll be doing: Drive engineering standards and be at the forefront of our innovation initiatives.
Work as part of the Practice leadership team to drive our strategic partnership with Microsoft to support and enable innovation, investment and growth.
Supervise the implementation of Azure engineering solutions for major critical projects, in a wide range of environments.
Ensure the relevance and quality of solutions, and be responsible for validating all deliverables within their scope.
Participate in leading the practice while helping to create a positive and motivating environment.
Organise and lead the knowledge-building process in their domain and provide product training.
What you'll bring: Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert Microsoft Cyber Security Architect Expert Microsoft DevOps Engineer Expert Azure IaaS (virtual machines, storage, networking, security) Azure Backup & Recovery Services Azure Governance (Blueprints, policies, tagging, cost management) Azure SQL Databases (Managed Instances, PaaS, IaaS) Azure Security (Zero Trust, Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, Azure AD, AIP) Azure Serverless and integration (Batch, Function, Logic Apps, EventGrid) Azure Containers (AKS, ACI, ACR) Active Directory/Entra ID (Azure AD, Azure AD DS, on-premises AD DS), on-premises infrastructure, virtualization technologies or applications, and experience with Infrastructure as Code (ARM, Bicep, Terraform, PowerShell) It would be great if you had: Python, .Net, React or other programming languages desirable If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply, we'd love to hear from you!
Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent
Location: UK Wide - you can be based anywhere in the UK for this role
Security Clearance Level: SC
Internal Recruiter: Annecia
Salary: Dependent on experience
Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund
Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improve performance and productivity.
We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements.
So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.
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