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The post holder ensures that Azure resources, identity services, virtual platforms, networking, backup, monitoring, and cloud security controls are maintained to high standards of performance, availability, and resilience.\n\nThe role provides advanced cloud engineering expertise, supporting migration, modernisation, and secure-by design implementation of Azure services. Working under the direction of the Azure Senior Infrastructure Lead and Head of IT Infrastructure & Cyber Operations, the post holder ensures that Azure environments align with organisational policy, cyber security requirements, and national NHS architectural and cyber standards such as NHS.net Connect and DSPT\n\n Job description\n\n Job responsibilities\n Please also refer to the attached detailed Job Description.\nThe Azure Infrastructure Engineer supports the operational management, optimisation, and secure delivery of Microsoft Azure based infrastructure and any hybrid cloud services across the Integrated Care Board (ICB) and GP IT estate. The post holder ensures that Azure resources, identity services, virtual platforms, networking, backup, monitoring, and cloud security controls are maintained to high standards of performance, availability, and resilience.\n\nThe role provides advanced cloud engineering expertise, supporting migration, modernisation, and secure-by design implementation of Azure services. Working under the direction of the Azure Senior Infrastructure Lead and Head of IT Infrastructure & Cyber Operations, the post holder ensures that Azure environments align with organisational policy, cyber security requirements, and national NHS architectural and cyber standards such as NHS.net Connect and DSPT\n\n Person Specification\n\n Experience\n\n Essential\n\n Experience supporting, administering and optimising Microsoft Azure environments, including:\n\n - Azure Virtual Machines, storage, virtual networking, NSGs, load balancers\n\n - Azure AD / Entra ID, Conditional Access, MFA, SSO, identity lifecycle\n\n - Azure Backup, ASR, monitoring, policy, RBAC and governance\n\n - Hybrid cloud integrations, Azure AD Connect, on-prem connectivity (VPN/ExpressRoute)\n\n Understanding of cloud security, compliance controls, vulnerability remediation and secure configuration baselines\n\n Experience managing infrastructure components such as Windows Server, virtualisation (Hyper-V/VMware), networking, endpoint management (Intune/MECM), and M365\n\n Demonstrated ability to investigate and resolve complex technical incidents across Azure and hybrid environments\n\n Experience in PowerShell, scripting or Infrastructure-as-Code beneficial\n\n Ability to analyse complex technical issues, identify solutions and implement improvements with with supervision and guidance where required\n\n Strong planning and organisational skills, including the ability to prioritise workloads, manage change and meet deadlines\n\n Effective communication skills, able to translate technical information into clear, understandable language for non-technical stakeholders\n\n Ability to work collaboratively within engineering teams and across wider digital functions\n\n Strong documentation skills, able to maintain accurate architecture diagrams, procedures and technical records\n\n Ability to maintain confidentiality, data integrity and follow information governance requirements\n\n Commitment to NHS values and to improving digital infrastructure for safe patient care\n\n Ownership of issues\n\n Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales\n\n The promotion of equality of opportunity and good working relations (providing practical leadership)\n\n Self-motivated\n\n Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values\n\n Embrace change, viewing it as an opportunity to learn and develop\n\n Qualifications\n\n Essential\n\n Educated in a relevant IT discipline or able to demonstrate equivalent specialist experience at an advanced technical level\n\n Professional Microsoft Azure certification(s) desirable, such as:\n\n AZ-104: Azure Administrator Associate (or Working Towards)\n\n Evidence of continuing professional development in cloud engineering, infrastructure, cyber security or Microsoft technologies\n\n Demonstrable knowledge 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environments\n\n Experience in PowerShell, scripting or Infrastructure-as-Code beneficial\n\n Ability to analyse complex technical issues, identify solutions and implement improvements with with supervision and guidance where required\n\n Strong planning and organisational skills, including the ability to prioritise workloads, manage change and meet deadlines\n\n Effective communication skills, able to translate technical information into clear, understandable language for non-technical stakeholders\n\n Ability to work collaboratively within engineering teams and across wider digital functions\n\n Strong documentation skills, able to maintain accurate architecture diagrams, procedures and technical records\n\n Ability to maintain confidentiality, data integrity and follow information governance requirements\n\n Commitment to NHS values and to improving digital infrastructure for safe patient care\n\n Ownership of issues\n\n Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make 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