Azure Solutions Consultant

Role Overview

The Azure Solution Consultant is a senior, customer-facing role responsible for designing, assuring, and delivering Microsoft Azure solutions that align to customer outcomes, best practice, and long-term operational supportability. This role works closely with pre-sales, delivery consultants, and operational teams, acting as a trusted technical authority and escalation point for customers.

What You Will Do

Act as a trusted Azure technical advisor to customers, providing architectural leadership across design, delivery, and operational transition. Design secure, scalable, and cost-optimised Azure architectures aligned to best practice, operational standards, and the customer's IT strategy.

Why It Might Be a Fit

Proven experience designing and delivering Azure solutions in consultancy, managed service, or enterprise environments. Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure IaaS and core platform services.

Requirements

• Proven experience (ideally 2+ years) designing and delivering Azure solutions in consultancy, managed service, or enterprise environments
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure IaaS and core platform services
• Experience migrating workloads into Azure using structured, low-risk approaches
• Strong understanding of Azure networking, identity, and security principles
• Experience designing solutions aligned to operational support models
• Working knowledge of DevOps practices, including CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code
• Strong customer-facing communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly
• Commercial awareness, including Azure cost management and optimisation considerations
• A proactive, detail-oriented, and collaborative approach
• Ability to take ownership of opportunities and lead technical outcomes
• Technical experience (experience in at least 3 of the following)
• Cloud migrations
• Infrastructure as Code (ideally Terraform)
• Azure networking
• Azure identity and access management
• Azure Virtual Desktop
• Cloud-native architecture (containers, serverless, managed services)
• Azure monitoring, logging, and operational tooling
• AI & Modern Cloud Capabilities

Benefits

• 26 days' holiday + bank holidays (and the option to buy more)
• 1 paid volunteering day every year
• Exceptional family leave
• Robust sick pay of up to 13 weeks full pay + 13 weeks half pay
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme for confidential support
• Private medical insurance for everyone, no medical-history exclusions
• Performance-based rewards tailored to your role
• Income protection: up to 75% salary for 5 years if you ever need it
• SkillsHub learning platform with leadership pathways, future-manager training, and a huge online library
• Access to external training and apprenticeships
• MatchIt! Fundraise for a cause close to your heart and OneAdvanced will match part of the funding
• Pennies from Heaven donate the pennies from your pay check to help make a difference without lifting a finger
• ULEV car scheme with 1,000+ models
• Dental insurance, Health Cash Plan, Critical Illness Cover, Partner Life Cover