Azure - Cloud and Data Centre Services Specialist

Our Company
We're Hitachi Digital, a company at the forefront of digital transformation and the fastest growing division of Hitachi Group. We're crucial to the company's strategy and ambition to become a premier global player in the massive and fast-moving digital transformation market.

Our group companies, including GlobalLogic, Hitachi Digital Services, Hitachi Vantara and more, offer comprehensive services that span the entire digital lifecycle, from initial idea to full-scale operation and the infrastructure to run it on. Hitachi Digital represents One Hitachi, integrating domain knowledge and digital capabilities, and harnessing the power of the entire portfolio of services, technologies, and partnerships, to accelerate synergy creation and make real-world impact for our customers and society as a whole.

Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to unleash a digital future. We don't expect you to 'fit' every requirement – your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and architect end-to-end Azure cloud solutions including IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and hybrid cloud components.
• Lead cloud migration and modernization initiatives for legacy infrastructure and applications.
• Define and implement landing zones, network architecture, identity models, and governance frameworks using tools like Azure Blueprints and Policy.
• Build and maintain secure, high-availability cloud infrastructure using Azure-native services.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like ARM templates, Bicep, or Terraform.
• Collaborate with DevOps, Security, and Application teams to integrate CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and compliance automation.
• Stay current with evolving Azure services, industry trends, and best practices to continually enhance the cloud environment.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5 years of experience in IT with 1-2 years of hands-on Azure architecture and engineering experience.
• Strong knowledge of core Azure services, including Azure Virtual Machines, App Services, Azure SQL, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Storage, Azure Networking, and Azure Active Directory.
• Identity and Access Administrator Associate certification.
• Familiarity with hybrid cloud architectures, VPN/ExpressRoute, on-prem to cloud integrations, and identity federation (ADFS, SAML, OAuth).
• Excellent communication and leadership skills to engage with business stakeholders, developers, and security teams.

Preferred Certifications (nice To Have)

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
• Microsoft Certified: Security Engineer Associate
• Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
• TOGAF or other enterprise architecture certifications

About Us
We're a global, 1000-stong, diverse team of professional experts, promoting and delivering Social Innovation through our One Hitachi initiative (OT x IT x Product) and working on projects that have a real-world impact. We're curious, passionate and empowered, blending our legacy of 110 years of innovation with our shaping our future. Here you're not just another employee; you're part of a tradition of excellence and a community working towards creating a digital future.

Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives
Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.

We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.

How We Look After You
We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We're also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We're always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you'll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We're proud to say we're an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic.
Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.