Data Centre Engineer / Platform Engineer (Azure, Windows, Migration)

Location : Sunderland, 3 days per week onsite (days may vary each week)

Basis : Inside IR35

Rate : DOE

The Data Centre Engineer / Platform Engineer will join a dynamic team at a time of major modernisation and transformation, with responsibility for providing hands‑on technical support to drive the cloud and data centre migration activities.

This will include:

• Supporting migration of datacentre-hosted workloads into Azure, assisting with planning, build, testing and production cutover activities
• Support landing zone, networking and infrastructure configuration
• Assist with application and server migration activities
• Support supplier engagement and technical validation activities
• Review and remediation of high‑priority vulnerabilities identified through pen testing activity
• Implement remediation activities across server and infrastructure platforms
• Validate controls through testing and evidence collection

The successful Data Centre Engineer / Platform Engineer will have the following skills:

• Infrastructure-as-Code: Terraform, ARM, PowerShell automation
• Backup and restore Solutions e.g. Veeam, CommVault

The Cloud Infrastructure Engineer will initially join for a period of 6 months to actively participate in the cloud and data centre migration activity, and there is the possibility of extension.