Senior Cloud & Platform Engineer (Azure Databricks, Azure Data Lake Storage) - Acuity Analytics

About Us

Ascent has recently been acquired by Acuity Analytics. This is both a significant milestone for us and a tremendous opportunity for you. Acuity Analytics is a business with a strong global reputation, an impressive client base and ambitious growth plans. We deliver deep insights and domain-led digital transformation to high-growth and heavily regulated organizations. To our customers, we bring a partnership that provides the talent, technology and capability to enhance performance and operational efficiency.

About the role

We're looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer to build and run enterprise Azure platform capabilities for a team that works on a Big Data Analytics Platform in a large, regulated environment.

This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who treats infrastructure as software: secure, automated, tested and maintainable. You'll enable data and application teams with reliable, compliant and scalable cloud solutions.

Responsibilities

• Independently design, develop and operate enterprise-grade Azure platform components using Terraform, PowerShell and Azure DevOps.

• Apply software engineering practices to infrastructure and automation: reusable design, automated testing, code reviews and version management.

• Own platform changes end-to-end, from implementation through CI/CD and release to operational handover.

• Run handover sessions and share knowledge with Operations, Service Desk and the four other DevOps teams, and present your results clearly.

• Support ops colleagues during incidents.

• Contribute to engineering standards and best practices, and develop a specialty within the team.`

Required skills

• 5+ years of hands-on experience engineering and operating enterprise Azure platforms

• Solid experience in Azure Databricks, platform side only (workspaces, access and networking via Terraform), and Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS)

• Expert level Terraform skills as your primary IaC tool

• Solid experience with Azure DevOps pipelines (build and release): YAML, reusable templates, approvals and environments

• Advanced scripting in PowerShell (preferred) or Python, including automated testing and artifact/version management

• Professional-level software engineering applied to infrastructure: IaC, reusable design, automated deployments and tests, code reviews and version management. This is not portal-based or point-and-click work.

• Networking: VNets, private endpoints and NSGs

• Identity and security: managed identities, service principals and role assignments

• Experience working in a regulated environment

• A proactive, can-do mindset, systems-level thinking, strong troubleshooting, advanced communication skills in English and a quality-first approach (automation first, documentation discipline)

Highly advantageous

• Hub-and-spoke network architectures

• Wider Microsoft Entra ID integration, including app registrations

• Azure AI Search, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Data Factory

• Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights

• German language proficiency

Why join us

People are at the Heart of our Business. By investing in people, we achieve exceptional results for our clients and create new opportunities for our teams to thrive. Check out this page for more details.

If you have any questions contact our Talent Acquisition team on ta.admin@acuityanalytics.

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