Azure Administrator jobs

About us

We are a scrutiny body that supports improvement. That means we look at the quality of care in Scotland to ensure it meets high standards. We are responsible for providing assurance and protection for people who experience care services, their families, carers and the wider public. Our vision is that people across Scotland experience high-quality care that meets their needs, rights and choices.

Our values

1. Person-centred: we put people, empathy, compassion, and kindness at the heart of everything we do

2. Respect: we value everyone's dignity and are respectful in everything we do

3. Equity: we embrace diversity and nurture an inclusive environment where everyone is supported to achieve equal outcomes

4. Integrity: we act impartially, fairly, and consistently, upholding transparency and accountability in all our actions

5. Impact: we focus on making a positive impact for everyone experiencing care in Scotland whilst ensuring our work delivers the best value to the public

Work-life balance

Our desire is to achieve an effective and balanced way of working, which enables us to meet organisational needs and achieve a work-life balance that promotes wellbeing and collaboration opportunities. Our hybrid working policy gives you the flexibility to mix working from home with attendance at your base office and other work locations, spending no more than 60% of your working time working from home, measured over a four-week period.

About the role

We are looking for an experienced cloud engineer to join our IT Service Delivery team, to play a key role in supporting and improving our Microsoft Azure and core business platforms.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone with strong technical expertise who values high-quality service delivery and wants to help modernise and strengthen IT services that support the Care Inspectorate’s work across Scotland.

Reporting to the Service Delivery Manager, you will be responsible for maintaining the availability, security and resilience of our Azure and wider IT estate. You will act as a trusted technical advisor, supporting day-to-day IT service operations, delivering technical change, and service improvement initiatives.

You will work closely with colleagues across IT and the wider organisation, as well as third‑party suppliers, to ensure services are maintained secure, reliable and continually improving.

You will:

• Design, implement and support Azure solutions across compute, storage, networking and security
• Monitor and optimise cloud resources for performance and cost efficiency
• Maintain security controls and governance (RBAC, Azure Policy, Key Vault)
• Support incident, problem, change and configuration management via the IT Service Desk
• Deliver technical change and transition new/updated services into live operation
• Support resilience, backup and disaster recovery arrangements
• Maintain documentation and provide reporting to support audit, compliance and service improvement
• Support licence and cloud resource procurement, and share knowledge across the team.

About you

You’ll have a proven track record in a similar infrastructure or platform engineering role, with strong hands-on experience of Microsoft Azure and core Microsoft technologies (including Microsoft 365, Windows Server/Active Directory and Exchange).

You’ll bring high-level knowledge of infrastructure security, service delivery and disaster recovery, alongside strong problem-solving skills, clear communication with non-technical colleagues, and a collaborative, customer-focused approach. You should be educated to SCQF level 7/8 (or equivalent experience) and can find more on their website. It is desirable that you have PowerShell/SCCM, ITIL, project management and relevant technical certifications.

Closing date: 08:00 Monday 3 August 2026.

Interview date: week commencing 17 August 2026, in Dundee office.

Pay: £53,511.00-£59,178.00 per year

Work Location: On the road