Azure Platform Engineer - Outside IR35 - Hybrid at SixteenFifty, London, 6 Months, £500 per day

The role of the Azure Platform Engineer - Outside IR35 - Hybrid - 6 month rolling contract

To provide hands-on Azure platform engineering expertise to accelerate the delivery of Azure (Telco-as-a-Service on Azure) platform capabilities. The role will be Embedded within clients engineering teams to co-deliver reusable, production-ready platform components, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD automation, observability, resilience and FinOps practices aligned to clients backlog and sprint cadence. The role will support secure, scalable and cost-effective cloud services while enabling knowledge transfer and coaching so client engineers can increasingly develop, operate and evolve Azure independently. Architectural ownership, design authority, programme governance and delivery management remain with client and separate governance arrangements.

The Azure Platform Manager will need:

Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure services, including compute, networking, storage, identity, security, monitoring and platform servi ces. Proven experience delivering cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform and Terragrunt, with strong understanding of modular, reusable and policy-driven implementation patterns. Experience building reusable Azure platform templates, golden paths or engineering patterns for repeatable platform adoption. Good understanding of DevOps and DevSecOps practices, including CI/CD, source control, automated testing, release management, security controls and environment governance. Experience operating Azure cloud-native services using observability, alerting, logging, performance monitoring, service reliability and incident response practices. Practical knowledge of cloud cost optimisation and FinOps principles, including cost visibility, tagging, right-sizing and efficient consumption patterns. Ability to work effectively as an Embedded third-party engineering consultant in a complex enterprise environment, communicating clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders and producing high-quality documentation.

Please apply for immediate consideration.