Senior Azure Engineer

Senior Azure Engineer

We are looking for a talented and dedicated Senior Azure Engineer to join our professional services team here at Ekco, delivering transformational Public Cloud migration and modernisation projects to our customers. We are a multi‑disciplinary, agile team of experts covering consulting and engineering activities, closely collaborating with our business colleagues and customers to ensure the best possible service is delivered.

As a Senior Azure Engineer, you will play a key role in:

• Leading the design, planning and implementation of Public Cloud projects for key Ekco clients
• Working closely with Solutions Architecture and Project Management teams to deliver exceptional projects and solutions
• Creating detailed high‑level and low‑level design and project handover documents to communicate solutions to clients and Ekco’s service delivery teams
• Contributing to the creation of best practices within the professional services team
• Acting as an escalation point for technical issues within the Azure projects team, taking ownership until the issue is resolved to the customers’ satisfaction
• Providing technical mentorship to team members, ensuring that technical documentation is maintained in line with Ekco standards and policies

• A strong customer focus, with an ability to continually anticipate and meet customers’ needs, excelling in communicating at all levels within a customer organisation
• Excellent working knowledge of Azure infrastructure services;
  Compute, Storage, Networking, Azure Virtual Desktop
• Experience delivering application modernisation projects in Azure:
  App Services, Container Apps, Azure SQL Database, Function/Logic Apps
• Experience working to ensure customer solutions and services comply with the relevant product standards and internal documentation (in accordance with ISO certification)
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience working in a Professional Services role for a Cloud Managed Services provider

• Experience architecting production environments across Physical, Virtualised and Cloud technologies
• Experience managing or implementing Microsoft 365 services;
  Entra  Conditional Access, Exchange Online, Intune, Share Point
• Experience designing and configuring Azure networking solutions:
  Azure WAN, Azure Firewall, Front Door, Traffic Manager, Express Route
• Knowledge of Dev Ops best practices and CI/CD tools
• Demonstrable knowledge of Terraform
• Understanding of Service Management best practices frameworks such as ITIL
• Knowledge of on‑premise networking principles and products and how they integrate with cloud services

• ☀️ Time Off: 25 days annual leave + public holidays
• 🎂 Birthday Leave:
  One extra day off to celebrate
• 💰 Company Pension Scheme
• 📞 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for wellbeing support
• 🏃♀️ Ekc Olympics:
  Global team activity challenges
• 📚 Unlimited access to Pluralsight for continuous development
• 🌱 Real opportunities to grow, including international progression

• ⭐️ Microsoft’s 2023 Rising Star Security Partner of the Year
• 🚀 First Irish Microsoft MSP to achieve all four Microsoft Security Specializations
• 🏅 Ranked 4th fastest‑growing technology company in the Deloitte Fast
  50 Awards
• 🌈 A culture rooted in diversity, equality, inclusion & belonging
• 🎉 A commitment to internal mobility and career progression
• ✨ Flexible, family‑friendly working at the heart of our culture
• 🔐 Proud to be your trusted security‑first Managed Service Provider chosen by IT leaders to drive operational efficiency, scale smarter and stay ahead of risk

Location:

Ekco UK – Milton Keynes, Chancery Lane – London (Hybrid)