Responsibilities
Build & Automate: Deliver reusable infrastructure modules and CI/CD pipelines using Gitlab or Azure DevOps to support consistent and secure deployments.
Platform Ownership: Contribute to the development and refinement of internal Azure Landing Zones, ensuring secure-by-default and policy-driven environments across multiple tenants or subscriptions, whilst expanding their knowledge into the AWS workspace.
Operational Excellence: Monitor, troubleshoot, and continuously improve the environments using tools like Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights.
Governance & Policy: Implement and maintain RBAC, Policies, Blueprints (or equivalent governance approaches), tagging strategies, and cost control measures.
Security First: Embed secure design principles into everything you build; support identity and access management, key vault integration, and vulnerability management.
Collaboration & Enablement: Work with delivery teams to support their use of the platform, coach on best practices, and help define golden paths and documentation that lower the barrier to adoption.
Innovation & Evolution: Stay up to date with Azure capabilities, contribute to capability assessments, and actively suggest improvements or new services that align with company strategy (e.g., enabling AI/ML or hybrid connectivity).
Core Skills & Experience
2–4 years hands-on experience with Azure cloud environments in production.
Strong experience with: Terraform
CI/CD tooling (GitLab, Azure DevOps Pipelines)
Azure Networking (VNETs, Private Endpoints, NSGs, Route Tables, etc.)
Identity & Access Management (Azure AD, Managed Identities, RBAC)
Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Defender for Cloud
Experience building and consuming shared infrastructure as code modules in a GitOps-style setup.
Ability to troubleshoot cloud-native applications, networking, and infrastructure issues.
Desirable / Bonus
Exposure to hybrid cloud setups (e.g., on-prem integration or restricted networks)
Awareness of enterprise controls (NCSC/Cyber Essentials, NIST, or similar frameworks)
Understanding of cloud cost optimisation and FinOps practices
Familiarity with supporting data/AI pipelines or platform integrations (e.g., Azure Data Factory, Databricks, OpenAI)
Exposure to other cloud environments (AWS, Google Cloud)
Behaviours
Proactive problem-solver who balances pragmatism with long-term maintainability
Comfortable owning delivery, making trade-offs, and asking the "so what?"
Collaborative, with good communication skills and a bias toward enabling others
Security-conscious and compliance-aware without being a blocker
Willing to continuously learn and adapt to new challenges Location Our Head Office is based in Salford Quays, Manchester, with satellite offices in London and Cheltenham. We offer hybrid working where you can work from home for part of your working week with time on site being based on the needs of your assigned delivery and agreed Ways of Working for your team. This would normally be a maximum of one or two days per week but you would be welcome to spend more days in the office if you preferred. Pay and benefits Naimuri pays competitively within the industry based on your role's base location rates. The salary for this position is dependent upon your experience. We assess seniority relative to the team at Naimuri during the interviewing process. A full time working week is 37.5 hours and you have flexibility over when you give that time. We also offer part-time working which can be discussed during the recruitment process. Our core hours are 10:00am - 3:00pm and our office hours are between 7:30 and 18:00 Monday to Friday. Benefits include: Flexible/Hybrid working options
A company performance related bonus
Pension matched 1.5x up to 10.5%
AXA group 1 medical cover
Personal training budget
Holiday buy-back scheme
A flexible benefits scheme Recruitment Process We want to ensure that you feel comfortable and confident when interviewing with us. To help you prepare, our recruitment team will discuss the process in more detail with you when you apply. We are happy to support any accessibility or neurodiversity requirements.
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PartTime