About Ashurst

Ashurst is a leading progressive global law firm with a rich history spanning more than 200 years. We are proud of our history and are future-focused, having expanded into new technologies through our NewLaw division, Ashurst Advance, and our consulting arm. Our in-depth understanding of our clients and commitment to providing excellent standards of service have seen us become a trusted adviser to local and global corporates, financial institutions and governments in all areas of commercial law. To find out more please visit www.ashurst.com .

Department/Role overview

We have an opportunity for an Azure Cloud Engineer and to join our Cloud Centre of Excellence team at an exciting time of significant transformation.

Reporting to the Cloud Platform Manager, in this role you will establish and provide DevOps, engineering, operational and administrative support to our Azure environments in partnership with colleagues in the UK and Australia.

Main responsibilities

• Management of Azure IaaS, PaaS and Hybrid Cloud
• Automation, provision, release and support of Azure resources

via DevOps CI/CD pipelines

• Monitor and manage the system health and performance of cloud-based systems and applications
• Manage incidents & service request queues to ensure that SLAs are met and publication of weekly reports
• Maintain internal procedural and technical documentation.
• Work with the Cyber Ops Team to protect our systems
• Create and update knowledgebase articles
• Create and maintain standard changes

Essential skills
and experience

•  Azure Certified Administrator
•  Other Azure Certifications considered eg Certified Azure Security Engineer, Certified DevOps Engineer
•  Equivalent Azure Cloud Support experience
•  Strong understanding and experience of supporting IaaS and PaaS services including networking, security, backup & recovery
•  Familiar with Azure CLI, PowerShell, Bicep , Terraform and ARM
•  Experience working with Azure Virtual Desktop
•  Azure logging, monitoring , IAM, RBAC, ABAC
•  Experience with Azure Policy to standards e.g. ISO27001, NIST, CIS
•  Experience configuring and managing Azure Pipelines and with Azure DevOps as a CI/CD tool
•  Awareness of ITSM frameworks (support, delivery and implementation)
•  Excellent communication & organizational skills.
•  Excellent security awareness

Desired skills and experience

•  Advanced Azure certifications
•  Cloud migration experience including use of toolsets such as Azure Migrate

Background checks

In order to comply with regulatory and client requirements, Ashurst will undertake appropriate vetting of staff. When applicants accept a job offer, Ashurst, alongside a specialist provider, will undertake professional verification and background checks. These checks are only undertaken with consent, and in accordance with our legal and regulatory obligations.