SQCE – Platform Engineer (Azure)

About Us:

ClearRoute is an engineering consultancy bridging Quality Engineering, Cloud Platforms and Developer Experience. We help enterprises reliably bring high-impact digital products to market faster, cheaper, and safer, working with technology leaders facing complex business challenges.

We take as much pride in our people, culture and work-life balance as we do in making better software. We’re not just making better software. We’re making the making of software better. Collaborative, entrepreneurial and dedicated to problem solving, we bring the step change our customer need to sustain innovation. Our values challenge us to do the best we can for ClearRoute, our customers and most importantly our team. This is an opportunity for you to build the organisation from the ground up, use your voice to drive change and help transform organisations and problem domains.

We champion human connection and face to face collaboration, so work in a hybrid way, with two days a week onsite in our London (Farringdon) office.

Role:

The Platform Engineer will own and evolve the Azure foundation that underpins AI and Agentic workstreams. This role is central to enabling delivery teams to build, deploy and scale solutions quickly, securely and reliably.

In this role you will take end-end responsibility for the shared Azure platform ensuring it provides robust capabilities across identity, networking, CI/CD, observability and environment management.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build shared Azure platform services

• Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform / Bicep); clean, repeatable environments

• CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps) and golden paths for delivery teams Identity, networking, and security baselines fit for our client

• Observability (logs, metrics, traces) and operational tooling

• Partner with workstream Tech Leads on their platform needs and trade-offs

Required Skills & Experience:

• Strong hands-on Azure platform experience (identity, networking, governance)

• Infrastructure-as-code with Terraform and/or Bicep

• CI/CD with GitHub Actions and/or Azure DevOps

• Kubernetes (AKS) and/or Azure container services

• Observability stack (Azure Monitor, App Insights, OpenTelemetry)

• Comfortable supporting multiple delivery teams in parallel

Desirable Skills / Experience:

• Platform engineering for AI / ML / LLM workloads on Azure

• Prior experience working with UK Energy or Utilities clients

• Experience building internal developer platforms / golden paths

• Consulting / client-embedded delivery background

At ClearRoute, we believe diverse perspectives lead to better outcomes, and inclusion creates the conditions for everyone to thrive. We are proud to have built a family friendly working environment and have many employees who have caring responsibilities alongside work. We welcome applications from people who require flexibility and will be happy to discuss needs on an individual basis.

We are committed to fostering a culture where all team members feel respected, supported, and empowered to do their best work. We celebrate individuality and our differences and understand that some differences may mean that you require changes made to the interview process. We are happy to cater to your needs to make the interview accessible, if this is something you require please let us know by emailing us at join@clearroute.io