Azure Integration Engineer

The salary for this role is £50,000 – £55,000.

Are you experienced in managing Azure Subscriptions and Azure Resources?                    

Can you effectively manage conflicting priorities and multiple workstreams in an efficient way?

Would you like the opportunity to help shape and support LI's technical vision, aligned with upkeeping industry best practices?

If so, we’d love to hear from you!

At Livestock Information Ltd, our mission is to be an outstanding service provider of livestock data, empowering government, industry, and farmers to effectively manage disease and infection control, whilst enhancing productivity and innovation in agriculture. To achieve this, we need great people, who share in our values.

As an Azure Integration Engineer at LI, you will begin your workday with an examination of system health dashboards, promptly addressing any service-related issues that necessitate immediate intervention to uphold system uptime.

As the day progresses, you will collaborate with development teams to refine CI/CD pipelines, ensuring high code quality and efficient builds, testing, and deployments.

You will also manage Azure B2C identity flows and API Management (APIM) configurations to ensure secure and seamless integration. Later in the day, your focus shifts to security, performing vulnerability assessments with Defender for Cloud, SonarCloud and Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP). In the late afternoon, you resolve support tickets, review system performance, and prepare for upcoming deployments or projects.

Responsibilities

Your responsibilities will include:

• Break-Fix Support: Providing timely and efficient break-fix support to resolve system issues and minimising downtime in line with Service Level Agreements including out of hours.
• Conduct proactive and reactive maintenance: Monitoring system performance, availability, and capacity, performing infrastructure and code optimization to ensure efficiency and reliability.
• Providing 3rd line support for the Azure customer identity and integration services and address escalated issues while coordinating with internal teams to maintain service uptime.
• Proactive Monitoring and Incident Response: Implementing real-time monitoring tools for applications and under lying infrastructure.
• Setting up proactive alerts and develop incident response procedures to identify, respond to, and resolve incidents efficiently.
• Monitoring system health and providing timely feedback on performance and potential risks to service availability.
• Security Hardening: Conducting regular vulnerability assessments, enforce security policies, and ensure patching and system hardening measures are applied.
• Adhering to corporate Information Security Policies, Azure Security Benchmark, and CIS controls.
• Collaboration with Development Teams: Supporting development teams with technical guidance, ensuring robust and secure applications or services.
• Collaborating on new projects and enhancements to ensure customer identity and integration requirements are met
• APIM (Azure API Management) Development
• SQL Development
• CI/CD Pipeline Development
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Continual Service Improvement

A full list of responsibilities can be seen on the Job Description which will be emailed to you once you have submitted your application.

Requirements

We are looking for someone with the following:

• Ability to manage requests from multiple sources and prioritise workload to enable efficient delivery of tasks in a timely manner
• Experience in providing high-quality break-fix support in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven ability to monitor and maintain complex cloud-based systems, ensuring uptime and performance.
• Experience in creating and configuring applications in Azure
• Knowledge of claims providers and technical profiles in B2C.
• Ability to create complex and customised user flows based on requirements

Technical Skills Requirements

We are looking for someone with the following:

• OpenID, OAuth2.0 & SAML2.0: Knowledge of identity and access protocols.

• UX/UI Customization in AD B2C User Flows: Ability to customize user experience flows.
• Experience in creating and customizing user flows in Azure AD B2C.
• Strong understanding of user management and custom attributes in Azure AD B2C.
• Experience with APIM, including security and cloud-to-cloud integration.
• Hands-on experience in developing Azure Functions, Web Apps, and C# programming.
• Experience in user administration, group assignment, and role management in the Azure AD B2C portal.
• Proficiency in using Azure Blob storage, Application Insights, and monitoring tools.
• Expertise in building and automating CI/CD pipelines for efficient software delivery from development to production in Azure DevOps.
• Experience of managing Azure subscriptions and Azure resources efficiently and expertise in managing customer identity using Azure AD B2C.
• Hands-on experience maintaining and deploying SonarCloud and Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) in a CI/CD pipeline for code quality and security scanning.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Graph API and MSAL for managing identities.
• Understanding of SSL certificates and security best practices.
• Experience in implementing custom policies using the Identity Experience Framework in Azure AD B2C.

Benefits

As an LI employee, you will be entitled to our company benefits which include:

• A fully remote and flexible working set up
• 33 days annual leave, inclusive of Bank Holidays
• 4 x annual salary Life Assurance
• Market leading pension scheme through Legal & General
• Enhanced Family Friendly Policies
• Excellent learning, training, and career development opportunities
• 24/7 access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• A diverse and inclusive culture where everyone is respected and valued

Application and Interview Process

To apply for this role, you will need to submit a CV and answer some pre-screening questions.

The interview and assessment process for this role will involve a telephone interview with our Talent Team, followed by a first stage and a final stage interview. Interviews will be conducted either remotely via MS Teams or face to face.

If we need to make a reasonable adjustment so that you can complete your application, please contact us as soon as possible by emailing talent@livestockinformation.org.uk before the closing date to discuss your needs.

Values

We approach our work with TACT; we are Transparent, Accountable, Committed and we work as a Team.

We are transparent together, embracing honesty and building trust. We are accountable to the industry and strive for the best possible solutions for the communities we serve. We drive change with passion, commitment and enthusiasm to deliver a great service to the livestock industry. We work kindly and cohesively which allows us to support each other in our personal and strategic goals.

Diversity statement

At Livestock Information, we value diversity and believe that every individual brings different strengths. We understand that not everyone may possess every single skill outlined in this job description, but if you believe you have a solid skill set that enables you to excel in this position then we really encourage you to apply.

Further information

If you feel your application has not been treated in a fair and open manner or if you are dis-satisfied with any of your interactions during the recruitment process and you wish to make a complaint, you should contact our Talent team via email: talent@livestockinformation.org.uk

Disclaimer 

Livestock Information Ltd. cannot sponsor work visas at this time.

Livestock Information Ltd. Does not discriminate based on race, sex, colour, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.

 Livestock Information Ltd. Does not accept unsolicited CVs from any source other than directly from a candidate. Any unsolicited CV’s not originating directly from a candidate and sent to Livestock Information Ltd or any Livestock Information Ltd employees, including unsolicited CVs sent to a Livestock Information Ltd mailing address or email address, are rejected. Livestock Information Ltd will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited CV. Livestock Information Ltd considers any candidate for whom the recruiter has submitted an unsolicited CV referred by the company free of any fees.