Azure Engineer

Since our establishment in 1990, Methods has partnered with a range of central government departments and agencies to transform the way the public sector operates in the UK.

Our mission is to improve and safeguard public-facing services. We apply digital thinking to ensure the future of our public services is centered around our citizens. Our human touch sets us apart from other consultancies, system integrators and software houses - we have a customer-centric value system whereby we focus on delivering what is right for our clients.

We passionately support our clients in the success of their projects while working collaboratively to share skill sets and solve problems. At Methods we have fun while working hard; we are not afraid of making mistakes and learning from them.

Role Purpose

We are seeking an experienced Senior Azure Engineer to design, build, migrate and support secure, reliable, and scalable cloud solutions within Microsoft Azure. The successful candidate will play a key role in delivering cloud transformation initiatives, infrastructure-as-code implementations, disaster recovery solutions, and platform modernisation programmes.

Working within agile, multidisciplinary teams, you will provide technical leadership across the Azure estate, helping to automate infrastructure deployment, improve operational excellence, and support business-critical cloud services. You will be comfortable engaging with stakeholders, contributing to technical strategy, and mentoring engineers whilst maintaining a hands-on approach to engineering delivery.

Requirements

• Design, deploy and support Azure infrastructure solutions.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Bicep.
• Build and manage Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines using YAML.
• Deliver Azure migration activities and workload onboarding.
• Implement and support Azure Site Recovery (ASR) and disaster recovery testing.
• Troubleshoot and resolve Azure, Linux and infrastructure issues.
• Automate operational tasks using shell scripting and platform tooling.
• Produce technical documentation and operational runbooks.
• Work within Agile/Scrum teams and contribute to sprint delivery.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote engineering best practice.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong Azure infrastructure engineering experience.
• Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code using Bicep.
• Experience building and maintaining Azure DevOps pipelines.
• Strong YAML pipeline development experience.