Azure Infrastructure & Data Engineer

About the Role: Grade Level (for internal use): 09 The Role: Design, build, and operate secure, scalable Azure infrastructure that underpins application, data, and AI workloads alongside Design, build, and operate modern data platforms on Azure that enable analytics, reporting, and AI/ML workloads. This role is typically accountable for the Azure landing zone, networking, identity, security baseline, and reliability and will focus on data ingestion, transformation, modelling, and performance. Responsibilities include: • Design and operate Azure landing zones aligned to CAF and enterprise governance standards • Build and manage Azure networking (VNETs, peering, VPN/ExpressRoute, Private Endpoints, DNS) • Implement and manage identity and access using Entra ID, RBAC, PIM, and Conditional Access • Own compute and platform services (VMs, VMSS, AKS, App Service environments) • Implement infrastructure as code using Bicep, ARM, Terraform, or similar • Monitor and optimize availability, performance, and cost (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Cost Management) • Partner with security teams on policy, compliance, and threat protection • Support production workloads with clear SRE/operations discipline (patching, backup, DR) • Design and implement end‑to‑end data pipelines on Azure • Build and operate Azure data platforms (Fabric, Synapse, Data Factory, Data Lake, SQL, Cosmos DB) • Ingest data from operational systems, SaaS platforms, and streaming sources • Develop data models optimized for analytics and downstream consumption • Ensure data quality, reliability, and performance at scale • Implement security and governance (Purview, RBAC, data access controls) • Partner with analytics, BI, and AI teams to enable insights and advanced use cases • Optimize cost and performance across data workloads. Requirements: • 3+years hands‑on experience with Azure core infrastructure services • Deep understanding of networking and security concepts in cloud environments • Experience building and operating IaC‑driven platforms • Familiarity with CAF, Well‑Architected Framework, and Zero Trust principles • Experience supporting mission‑critical production systems • Strong experience with Azure data services (Fabric or Synapse, ADF, ADLS, SQL) • Solid SQL skills and experience with data transformation patterns • Experience building batch and/or streaming pipelines • Understanding of modern analytics architectures (lakehouse, data mesh concepts) • Ability to support production data platforms Nice‑to‑have • AKS platform engineering experience • Azure Firewall, Application Gateway, or Front Door • Azure Policy at scale • Hybrid connectivity (on‑prem to Azure) • Fabric end‑to‑end experience (OneLake, Lakehouse, Warehouse) • Spark / PySpark experience • Integration with AI/ML workloads • Data governance tooling (Purview) #L1-RS2 What’s In It For You? 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