Azure Architect (Microsoft Azure)

Location: United Kingdom; remote

Company

hirify.global provides business technology solutions for the energy, public, and finance sectors, combining technology, specialist teams, and domain expertise to support client transformation.

What you will do

• Design enterprise-grade Azure architectures covering infrastructure, platform services, networking, security, and governance.
• Advise clients on cloud adoption, migration strategies, and hybrid cloud integration.
• Lead architectural reviews and ensure compliance with regulatory and organisational standards.
• Produce architecture documentation, diagrams, technical specifications, proposals, statements of work, RFP responses, roadmaps, and strategies.
• Collaborate with development, operations, security, clients, project teams, and stakeholders to deliver cloud solutions.
• Own end-to-end technical delivery, including planning, build, testing, deployment, and operational handover.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on technical consulting or architecture experience in a channel, vendor, or customer environment.
• Enterprise-scale experience with Azure infrastructure, PaaS, security, networking, governance, hybrid cloud, and on-premises integration.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, Infrastructure as Code using Bicep, ARM templates, and Terraform, plus PowerShell, Graph API, and automation.
• Knowledge of Microsoft CAF and WAF, Azure migration tools, Agile and DevOps methodologies, and identity management with Entra ID.
• Microsoft Azure certifications AZ-305, AZ-700, and AZ-500 are essential.
• Strong communication, documentation, solution design, and presales skills, with familiarity with compliance and security frameworks including Zero Trust, NCSC, NIST, ISO 27001, and Cyber Essentials.

Nice to have

• Azure certifications AZ-140, AI-102, and SC-300.
• Experience designing and implementing AWS solutions.
• Experience with ASR, Azure Migrate, and Data Migration Assistant.

Culture & Benefits

• Personalised career development plans and learning opportunities.
• Flexible working arrangements to support work-life balance.
• Generous annual leave and enhanced family-friendly benefits.
• Pension scheme, private health coverage, wellbeing support, and insurance schemes.
• Inclusive workplace and equal opportunities for applicants.