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About Audiebant Limited

Audiebant Limited is the UK's leading provider of audio and visual communication solutions, specialising in Mass Communication Zoned solutions for critical incidents, lockdowns, and everyday communication. With over 30 years of expertise, we serve the Education, NHS, Corporate and Local Government sectors, offering market-leading software and systems for public sector communications.

We are currently seeking a motivated and experienced Azure Infrastructure Engineer to join our dynamic IT team in Kirkham, Lancashire. This role is office based, and essential to supporting our clients, resellers and distributors with bespoke software solutions while contributing to the ongoing growth and success of the business.

About the Role

This is a hands-on Azure infrastructure role at the centre of our platform. You will be Audiebant's technical owner of our global Microsoft Azure estate — responsible for knowing what we run and why, and for making sure it remains secure, resilient and cost-effective.

We work with a managed service partner who act as our primary engineering resource for the platform, and much of this role is delivered through them — setting direction, reviewing and assuring their work, coordinating changes, and making sure knowledge and documentation stay within Audiebant rather than sitting solely with the partner.

It suits someone who enjoys owning an environment end to end: comfortable in the Azure portal and at the command line, thorough with documentation and change control, and confident coordinating a third-party supplier. You will work alongside our development team, supporting the environments their software runs on — but this is an infrastructure role first, not a software engineering one.

Key Skills

We are looking for a candidate with demonstrable experience across the following:

• Solid hands-on experience with core Azure services, including virtual machines, App Services, storage, networking (VNets, NSGs) and load balancers.
• Administering Entra ID, role-based access control, conditional access and MFA to maintain least-privilege access.
• Scripting and automation using PowerShell, Bash or the Azure CLI.
• Monitoring, alerting and troubleshooting using Azure Monitor, Application Insights and Log Analytics.
• Security and compliance awareness, including patching, secrets management, backups and secure configuration.
• Managing Azure spend — budgets, alerts, forecasting and rightsizing.
• Clear documentation and disciplined change control.
• Confidence in coordinating, reviewing and challenging the work of a third-party technical supplier.

What you'll be doing

Azure Infrastructure Ownership

• Act as the internal technical owner of the Azure estate, maintaining a clear picture of what we run and why.
• Define infrastructure standards, naming conventions, tagging and configuration baselines.
• Keep environments documented, version-controlled and reproducible — using Infrastructure as Code where appropriate.
• Oversee networking, identity, storage and compute configuration across the platform.
• Administer Entra ID, role-based access control, conditional access and MFA policies to maintain least-privilege access.

Working With Our Managed Service Partner

• Act as the primary technical point of contact between Audiebant and our managed service partner.
• Review and assure work carried out by the partner, ensuring it meets our standards before it reaches production.
• Coordinate and approve change requests, planned maintenance and escalations.
• Hold the partner to account on service levels, response times and delivery commitments.
• Feed into technical reviews, architecture decisions and the platform roadmap.
• Ensure knowledge and documentation remain within Audiebant rather than sitting solely with the partner.

Environments and QA Support

• Build and maintain development, test, staging and production environments.
• Ensure environments are consistent with one another so that testing is meaningful.
• Support the development and QA teams with environment refreshes, test data and deployment support.
• Reduce the time it takes to stand up or reset an environment.

Monitoring, Observability and Reliability

• Set up and maintain monitoring, logging and alerting across applications and infrastructure.
• Build dashboards that give the business visibility of system health and performance.
• Investigate performance, connectivity and reliability issues, working with the partner where escalation is needed.
• Take part in incident response, root cause analysis and post-incident improvement.
• Contribute to resilience and disaster recovery planning, including backup configuration and restore testing.

Security and Compliance

• Ensure infrastructure and deployment practices support our ISO 27001, ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and Cyber Essentials Plus certifications.
• Manage secrets, certificates and credentials securely, including renewal and expiry monitoring.
• Support security scanning and vulnerability management across the estate.
• Maintain patching and vulnerability management schedules with the managed service partner.
• Support internal and external audits with evidence of controls and change history.

Cost Management and Optimisation

• Monitor Azure consumption and report on spend against budget.
• Identify underused or oversized resources and implement rightsizing.
• Use Azure Cost Management to maintain budgets, forecasts and alerts.

What We're Looking For - Technical Expertise

We are looking for a hands-on, proactive engineer with strong technical knowledge in the following areas:

• Azure Infrastructure — solid, proven experience deploying and managing compute, storage, networking and identity in Microsoft Azure.
• Identity and Security — solid understanding of Entra ID, RBAC, conditional access and secure cloud configuration.
• Scripting and Automation — proficiency with PowerShell, Bash or the Azure CLI.
• Monitoring and Observability — familiarity with Azure Monitor, Application Insights and Log Analytics.
• Backup and Recovery — knowledge of Azure Backup and Site Recovery for business continuity.
• Supplier Coordination — experience managing or working alongside an outsourced infrastructure or IT partner.

Desirable

• Building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps or similar).
• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, Bicep or ARM templates.
• Exposure to Linux server administration and containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes or Azure Container Apps).
• Experience with real-time or IoT platforms, including MQTT.
• Experience working within an ISO 27001 certified environment.
• Relevant Microsoft certifications, such as AZ-104.

What We're Looking For - Soft Skills and Key Attributes

We are looking for someone who not only has the technical skills, but also brings the right mindset and approach:

• Collaborative — works well with developers, testers and support teams, and invested in making the platform easy for them to build on.
• Confident With Suppliers — able to review a third party's work constructively, ask the right questions and push back where something is not right.
• Problem-Solving Mindset — troubleshoots complex issues logically, with a focus on root cause and preventing recurrence.
• Attention to Detail — strong commitment to accuracy, documentation and best practice, particularly around change control, security and compliance.
• Communication Skills — able to explain technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences alike.
• Proactive and Self-Motivated — takes the initiative to improve systems and automate repetitive work before problems arise.
• Adaptability and Curiosity — willing to learn new tools and keep pace with a fast-moving platform.
• Ownership and Accountability — takes responsibility for the systems in their care and sees issues through to resolution.

Why Join Audiebant?

• Work with cutting-edge technology and specialist hardware
• Gain hands-on experience via a range of technical opportunities
• Be part of a supportive, knowledgeable IT team
• Structured training and development opportunities
• A role with genuine career progression

Ready to Join Us?

If you are passionate about Azure and eager to make an impact in an innovative company, we would love to hear from you. Take the next step in your career with Audiebant Limited today!

Apply now and become part of a forward-thinking team that’s shaping the future of communication solutions for the public sector.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £47,500.00-£55,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company events
• Company pension
• Free parking
• On-site parking

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Preston PR4 2SH: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• Azure Engineering: 3 years (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person