Principal Azure Platform Engineer - Appvia

Location: London, UK

About Us

At Appvia, we''re committed to helping our customers navigate their journey to Cloud and DevOps maturity. As a leading provider in the industry, we offer cutting-edge technologies and services to support our clients'' cloud adoption journey.

Our mission is to enable every company to deliver apps in the cloud. We dedicate ourselves to building a cloud infrastructure layer that allows platform engineering teams to manage, monitor and update with ease - at the same time, offering devs the flexibility to deploy their apps in the cloud without a hassle. We are passionate about driving value to our clients and have a desire to make their organisation succeed.

About the role

As a Principal Azure Platform Engineer, you''ll play a pivotal role in guiding our customers towards Cloud and DevOps excellence. You''ll leverage your expertise to design and implement scalable, resilient, and secure platforms while driving strategic initiatives to align with customer objectives.

This position offers a great opportunity to technically lead a team of cloud consultants, fostering innovation and excellence in cloud adoption strategies and driving the establishment of Appvia''s internal solutions team at an exciting time in our journey.

Interview process - 3 stage

Discovery conversation with our Talent Acquisition Manager
Technical Interview with the Hiring Manager
Leadership Final Interview

Requirements

About you

You’ll be passionate about new technology and automation, and experienced in leading an Engineering Team in Agile and DevOps best practices. You’ll also be able to talk to us about your:

Expert knowledge of continuous integration and deployment practices
Ability to collaborate with people of all levels of technical ability
Ability to lead and mentor on industry best practices
Project Management experience
Fantastic people skills, including the ability to motivate a team towards a common goal
Bid work and Pre-Sales Engineering experience

Responsibilities

Collaborate with prospective and existing customers to define and execute strategies for cloud and DevOps adoption.
Educate customers and industry stakeholders on the benefits and best practices of cloud-native technologies.
Lead large, complex public cloud projects, providing strategic direction and selecting appropriate technologies.
Manage teams of platform engineers and consultants, fostering a positive and collaborative team culture.
Engage with enterprise clients to understand their unique challenges and deliver tailored solutions.
Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and emerging technologies, contributing to industry knowledge sharing through blog posts and videos.

Skills

Platform Engineering: Mastery of designing and implementing scalable, resilient, and secure platforms.
Automation: Expertise in infrastructure-as-code (IaC) practices, automation tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation) and scripting languages (e.g. Python, Ruby).
Container Orchestration: In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with Kubernetes and its managed counterparts (EKS, AKS, GKE).
Public Cloud Expertise: In-depth knowledge of Azure services such as Azure Fabric, (AWS or GCP desirable also), architecture, and best practices.
DevOps Mastery: Excellent knowledge of CI/CD, containerisation, and serverless technologies.

Experience

Leadership on Large Projects: Proven experience leading and delivering large, complex public cloud projects.
Team Management and Mentorship: Extensive experience leading and managing teams, fostering a collaborative culture, and mentoring team members.
Enterprise Customer-Facing Experience: Significant experience engaging with enterprise clients, managing relationships, and ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction.
Continuous Learning and Industry Involvement: Proven commitment to staying up-to-date with the latest trends and contributing to industry knowledge sharing.

Qualifications

Certification in relevant cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP) at an expert/professional level is highly desirable, e.g.:

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Certification in Kubernetes administration is desirable:

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKSS)

Benefits

Why join Appvia?

We are a self-funded, London based startup; providing businesses with a fast and secure way to deploy containerised applications into the cloud.

We are on a mission to enable organisations to make cloud-based software delivery simple and efficient, whilst having the insights into costs, security and cadence. As a company that holds customers at the heart of everything we do, we are looking for candidates that want to make a real change to how Dev and Ops is working in the industry.

With us our customers, like the UK’s Home Office & Bank of England, are harnessing cloud-native technologies, limiting the challenges of infrastructure management and rapidly delivering digital products.

What’s on offer?

️ Work-life balance

Flexible working with core hours of 10-4pm because we know life happens outside of work
An additional day off for your birthday
Hybrid working
25 days’ holiday a year, plus bank holidays

For your well-being

Full Private Healthcare cover for you with partners and children covered 50%
Death in Service
Cycle to Work scheme
Pension plus a salary sacrifice option for even greater savings
Employee Assistance Programme

Mental health support

Free therapy through AXA
Access to the Headspace App
Trained Mental Health First Aiders

Other fun perks

Learning budget of £1,000 a year
Your own MacBook Pro while you work at Appvia
Dog friendly office
Dress how you feel comfortable
Free snacks in the office
Regular team socials, board game nights, industry meetups and more!
Pool table & ping pong table

But don’t just take our word for it, you can check out what our Appvians say about us on Glassdoor and by following us on LinkedIn, Twitter and TikTok.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and actively encourage, respect, and recognise diversity of thought and background throughout the business. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity, and disability status.