Contracting · remote · outside IR35

Honest Azure advice. Professional delivery.

Senior Azure and hybrid infrastructure: landing zones, identity, networking, estate, BCDR, and IaaS. For organisations that need hands-on capability, not a delivery programme.

The work

Landing zones Subscription, management group, and platform foundations that teams can actually build on — not a one-off subscription and a hope.
Identity Entra ID, hybrid identity, Conditional Access, and the join between on-premises and cloud that estates still depend on.
Networking Hub-and-spoke, connectivity, DNS, firewalls, private endpoints — designed and operated, not just diagrammed.
Estate Clarity on what you have, what is drifting, and what should be retired or rebuilt. Hybrid and multi-cloud where Azure sits next to AWS or on-premises.
BCDR Recovery design, failover tests, and the boring operational detail that makes a dual-region story real.
IaaS Compute, storage, and the surrounding platform when virtual machines are still the right answer.

Who it is for

Organisations that need Microsoft Azure platform and estate work delivered by experienced infrastructure specialists, not a delivery layer.

Remote. Outside IR35. Based in Wokingham; available to UK organisations.

This is not a DevOps / CI-CD-lead brief. Pipeline-heavy, tooling-first, or “own the whole SDLC” roles are a mismatch. Infrastructure is the centre of gravity.

Selected work

Azure and hybrid engagements. Adjacent AWS work is included where it sat next to the estate.

Azure · dual-region

National energy switching programme

Dual-region Azure before, during, and after go-live. Production releases with other teams, yearly BCDR and performance testing, skills transfer to client SRE, alerting and monitoring. Complex Azure and AWS estate, designed, built, tested, transitioned, and operated.

Hybrid · Intune

UK local authority

Tech refresh: hybrid cloud (on-premises and Azure), Windows 10 MDM with Intune and AutoPilot, coexistence, and end-user migrations.

AWS DR · adjacent cloud

International specialty insurer

AWS disaster-recovery proof of concept designed, built, and tested. Alongside PKI rebuild, datacentre storage network optimisation, and a backup upgrade.

Next step

A short brief is enough: duration, commercial basis, Azure scope, and whether the work is platform and estate rather than application delivery.

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