Azure Specialist

Commercial Services Group is recruiting for an Azure Specialist on behalf of Cantium Business Solutions, which is part of Commercial Services Group.

Salary: £62,000 (DOE)

Brand: Cantium Business Solutions

Location: Kings Hill/Hybrid

The Role
Cantium are looking for an Azure Specialist to join their thriving team, where you'll serve as the subject matter expert in our Enterprise Services department. In this role, you'll maximize the benefits of the Azure product suite for our customers while ensuring alignment with best practices. Reporting to the Head of Enterprise Services, you will support team development by fostering essential skills and knowledge of the latest Azure developments. The position requires expert-level hands-on experience with Azure services, including Virtual Machines, Azure AD Connect, Azure Virtual Desktop, Blob and Disk Storage and more.

Key Duties

Establish and maintain a roadmap of Azure service changes, introductions and retirements. Work with the appropriate teams and customers to support the actions required.

Identify the skills required within the team to support existing and new Azure functionality and features. Create and maintain a skills matrix, identifying training plans and paths.

Facilitate knowledge sharing within the team, leading training sessions where required to upskill the wider team(s).

Lead by example and influence others, providing expertise and extensive knowledge in specialist area, support the Enterprise Systems Team Manager ensuring the work of the team is planned and evaluated.

Attend Technical Design Authority meetings and provide input to project designs to ensure future services / changes are aligned with operational services. Work with the Service Design & Transition function to ensure projects are smoothly transitioned into Operations.

Develop and provide technical solutions based on industry best-practice principles that ensures network and security infrastructure integrity is maintained appropriately at all times.  
What we need from you

Degree in a relevant technical field or equivalent experience.

Relevant IT industry certifications (e.g., Microsoft AZ-800, AZ-801, AZ-104, ITIL) 

Proven experience as an Azure lead/in a leadership position, delivering complex technical solutions effectively.

Extensive experience in configuring Azure services, including Virtual Machines, Azure AD Connect, Azure Virtual Desktop, Blob and Disk Storage, and more.

Significant involvement in large-scale, high-impact projects with strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills, capable of creating high and low-level designs and conveying technical concepts to non-technical audiences & Senior stakeholders. 

Public Sector experience would be a bonus
What Cantium can offer you:

Minimum of 33 days holiday (inc. bank holidays)

Truly hybrid/flexible working

Generous contributory pension scheme.

People focused culture with great communication and development opportunities.

A wide range of workplace wellbeing services.

Electric Car Scheme.

Employee shopping discount scheme.
Cantium Business Solutions is a back-office services provider established by Kent County Council. They partner with local government, education and private sectors to understand their business needs and challenges and provide tailored solutions. Their focus on insight and collaboration ensures that they remain connected to these organisations to enhance their key business priorities such as such as IT strategy and architecture, project management and fully managed IT services.

We recognise that work isn't just somewhere you go for a set number of hours. Work is something we do. “Cantium Working” is our vision of the behaviours and attitudes inherent in ‘agile’ working. As a business we are committed to providing a flexible approach to when, where and how our staff work. Cantium working enables you to work in the way which best balances personal and work life – helping you achieve a great work life balance.

About Commercial Services Group

Commercial Services Group (CSG) is the largest, local authority-owned trading company (LATCO) in the UK, wholly owned by Kent County Council. CSG generates over £800m in revenue per annum and provides services to over 16,000 education and public sector customers globally.

CSG is striving to be recognised as the global leader in Education and Public Sector services, currently operating in 86 countries, with 1,800 staff across 26 trading brands, providing expertise ranging from: HR Services, IT Services, Energy, Education Resources, Procurement and many more