Senior Azure Cloud & Platform Engineer - London - Hybrid

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London, Greater London, England, GBR
Hybrid
Senior level
Financial Services
The Role
Own and operate the Azure platform, including networking, identity, access controls, monitoring, disaster recovery, and infrastructure dependencies. Validate architecture and security alignment, troubleshoot production issues across distributed systems, improve Terraform configurations, support CI/CD, and develop automation, runbooks, and documentation. The engineer will also assess operational gaps, challenge external technical providers, and communicate risks and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Summary Generated by Built In

PBI’s flagship products and services, PBI Axiom, PBI Vector, and PBI Stratus, enable alternative asset managers to address their data challenges in analytics, workflow, governance, and security.

PBI is looking for a Senior Azure Cloud & Platform Engineer.

The successful candidate will act as the technical owner of the Azure platform, working closely with external development and engineering partners. They will ensure that deployed systems align with the intended architecture, support secure and stable operations, and improve ownership across Identity and Access Management, Disaster Recovery, and Monitoring and Observability.

Main Responsibilities
  • Oversee the Azure environment, including subscriptions, landing zones, networking, connectivity and platform dependencies
  • Validate that deployed infrastructure aligns with documented architecture and security requirements
  • Investigate issues across infrastructure, APIs, applications and integrations
  • Review Entra ID, Azure RBAC, PIM, privileged access, service identities and supplier access
  • Ensure least-privilege principles and effective joiner, mover and leaver processes
  • Assess disaster-recovery capabilities, including dependencies, RTOs, RPOs, backups, runbooks, responsibilities and test evidence
  • Review monitoring coverage, alerts, dashboards, escalation processes and operational blind spots
  • Read, modify and improve Terraform configurations
  • Support CI/CD pipelines and create scripts or small automation tools when required
  • Diagnose production issues and develop practical runbooks and technical documentation
  • Act as the internal technical counterpart to external providers, reviewing and constructively challenging proposed changes
  • Identify gaps between documented design, deployed configuration and actual operating practice
  • Communicate risks, findings and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Requirements

Essential

  • Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure
  • Experience supporting live, business-critical production environments
  • Experience across cloud architecture, platform engineering and operations
  • Practical Infrastructure as Code experience, preferably with Terraform
  • Strong knowledge of Entra ID, Azure RBAC and PIM
  • Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting and incident investigation
  • Understanding of disaster recovery, backups, RTOs, RPOs and recovery testing
  • Experience working with API-driven services and distributed platforms
  • Ability to troubleshoot across infrastructure, applications and integrations
  • Familiarity with scripting, automation and CI/CD pipelines
  • Strong technical documentation and runbook-development skills
  • Ability to work independently, take ownership and exercise sound technical judgement
  • Confidence working with and challenging external technical partners
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills

Desirable

  • Experience across both Microsoft 365 and Azure
  • Knowledge of Azure DevOps permissions and platform access controls
  • Experience conducting cloud-platform assessments or technical discovery
  • Experience supporting security audits, including Cyber Essentials Plus
  • Experience reviewing disaster-recovery strategies and monitoring frameworks
  • Experience working with multiple external technology suppliers

Benefits

You would be part of an international team of people, working on the latest technology and at the forefront of automation and innovation. We offer:

  • Flexible working - hybrid mode
  • Working on exciting cutting-edge technology projects
  • Competitive salary
  • Medical insurance package
  • Generous paid time off
  • Professional development and training
  • Professional certification exams sponsored by the company

Skills Required

  • Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure
  • Experience supporting live, business-critical production environments
  • Experience across cloud architecture, platform engineering, and operations
  • Practical Infrastructure as Code experience, preferably with Terraform
  • Strong knowledge of Entra ID, Azure RBAC, and PIM
  • Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident investigation
  • Understanding of disaster recovery, backups, RTOs, RPOs, and recovery testing
  • Experience working with API-driven services and distributed platforms
  • Ability to troubleshoot across infrastructure, applications, and integrations
  • Familiarity with scripting, automation, and CI/CD pipelines
  • Strong technical documentation and runbook-development skills
  • Ability to work independently, take ownership, and exercise sound technical judgment
  • Confidence working with and challenging external technical partners
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Experience across both Microsoft 365 and Azure
  • Knowledge of Azure DevOps permissions and platform access controls
  • Experience conducting cloud-platform assessments or technical discovery
  • Experience supporting security audits, including Cyber Essentials Plus
  • Experience reviewing disaster-recovery strategies and monitoring frameworks
  • Experience working with multiple external technology suppliers
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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
60 Employees
Year Founded: 2020

What We Do

Portfolio BI (PBI) empowers the most sophisticated buy-side firms to take control of their portfolio and operational data. Born from the merger of LUX FTS and NorthPoint and Hentsu our customers benefit from our integrated platforms, local technological expertise, and seasoned financial experts. We don't just help you access, organize, and analyze your data; we help you act on it. With the most configurable solutions on the market, our platforms can be specifically tailored to your unique business needs. 150 top tier hedge funds, asset managers, family offices, funds of funds, and institutional investors have trusted PBI's technology for over 25 years. Follow Us: www.twitter.com/portfoliobi

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