Technical Consultant - Microsoft

Salary: £39,000 - 79,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 platforms, including compute, storage, networking, identity, and collaboration services.
• Proven experience designing and implementing secure, scalable cloud solutions across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
• Understanding of Entra ID (Azure AD), RBAC, Conditional Access, and cloud security principles.
• Experience implementing Zero Trust principles across identity, device, and data layers.
• Familiarity with Microsoft security tools, including Defender for Cloud, Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Office 365, and Sentinel.
• Expertise in cloud migration approaches, including lift-and-shift, re-platforming, and refactoring.
• Knowledge of Azure networking concepts, including VNets, firewalls, private endpoints, and hybrid connectivity.
• Strong troubleshooting capabilities across cloud infrastructure and services.
• Experience in project scoping and solution estimation, including effort sizing, assumptions, dependencies, and risk identification.
• Relevant Microsoft certifications, such as Azure Administrator, Azure Solutions Architect, or Security Engineer.
• Preferred: Experience with Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform, Bicep, and ARM templates.
• Preferred: Background in building and managing CI/CD pipelines, including Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.
• Preferred: Understanding of containerization and modern workloads, such as AKS and serverless.

Responsibilities:

• Consult with clients to understand their digital transformation needs and provide expert advice on technical solutions.
• Shape, design, and implement tooling and solutions that meet customers digital strategy requirements.
• Act as a key figure in internal and customer technical design authorities, establishing standards and approaches based on deep subject matter expertise.
• Participate in project estimation and scoping to ensure projects are accurately defined, delivered on time, and within budget.
• Maintain strong relationships with the Technical Operations team, Account Management, Service Delivery, and the BAU team to support seamless issue resolution.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and operational governance within Azure to maintain a strong security posture and regulatory compliance.
• Ensure all solutions are fully documented, supportable, and transitioned into managed services with clear ownership and SLAs.

Technologies:

• ARM
• Architect
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• GitHub
• IaaS
• Support
• Microsoft 365
• Office 365
• PaaS
• RBAC
• Security
• Serverless
• Terraform

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We are Advania, the tech company with people at heart. We empower people to create sustainable value through the clever use of technology. As one of Microsofts leading partners in the UK, we specialise in Azure, Security, Dynamics 365, and Microsoft 365, and we have a proven track record of delivering transformational IT services. We offer a hybrid working policy, allowing our employees to balance time in the office and time from home. This role requires an onsite presence of up to 3 days a week with our client in Central London.

last updated 35 week of 2026