About Ekco

🚀 Founded in 2016, Ekco has quickly become one of Europe’s fastest-growing cloud solution providers and your trusted security-first Managed Service Provider.
IT leaders choose Ekco to drive operational efficiency, scale smarter and stay ahead of risk – powered by local expertise, delivered at European scale.

We specialise in helping organisations advance their cloud maturity guiding transformation, strengthening security, and maximising the value of their technology investments.

☁️ In simple terms: we help organisations modernise with confidence securing their systems, optimising their cloud, and keeping them resilient in a rapidly changing world.

🌍 Today, we’re a thriving team of 1,000+ talented and supportive colleagues across the UK, Ireland, Benelux, South Africa, and Malaysia—and we’re continuing to grow.

At Ekco, how we work matters as much as what we deliver. Our people live by four core values that shape everything we do:

• On It: We take ownership, follow through, and get things done.

• All In : We collaborate, support each other, and commit fully to shared goals.

• Connected: We build trusted relationships with colleagues, clients, and partners.

• Hungry to Grow: We stay curious, keep learning, and push ourselves to the next level.

🏠If these values resonate with you, you’ll feel right at home here.

The Role

We are looking for a talented and dedicated Senior Azure Engineer to join our professional services team here at Ekco, delivering transformational Public Cloud migration and modernisation projects to our customers. We are a multi-disciplinary, agile team of experts covering activities relating to consulting and engineering, closely collaborating with our business colleagues and customers to ensure the best possible service is delivered to our customers.

Day-to-day at Ekco:

As a Senior Azure Engineer, you will play a key role in:

• Leading the design, planning and implementation of Public Cloud projects for key Ekco clients

• Working closely with Solutions Architecture and Project Management team to deliver exceptional projects and solutions

• Creating detailed high-level and low-level design and project handover documents to communicate solutions to clients and Ekco’s service delivery teams

• Contribute to the creation of best practices within the professional services team

• Acting as an escalation point for technical issues within the Azure projects team, taking ownership until the issue is resolved to the customers satisfaction

• Providing technical mentorship to team members, ensuring that technical documentation is maintained in line with Ekco standards and policies

About you:

• A strong customer focus, with an ability to continually anticipate and meet customers’ needs, excelling in communicating at all levels within a customer organisation

• Excellent working knowledge of Azure infrastructure services; Compute, Storage, Networking, Azure Virtual Desktop.

• Experience delivering application modernisation projects in Azure; App Services, Container Apps, Azure SQL Database, Function/Logic Apps,

• Experience working to ensure customer solutions and services comply with the relevant product standards and internal documentation (in accordance with ISO certification)

• A Minimum of 5 years’ experience working in a Professional Services role for a Cloud Managed Services provider

The Desirables

• Experience architecting production environments across Physical, Virtualised and Cloud technologies

• Experience managing or implementing Microsoft 365 services; Entra ID and Conditional Access, Exchange Online, Intune, SharePoint.

• Experience designing and configuring Azure networking solutions; Azure WAN, Azure Firewall, Front Door, Traffic Manager, Express Route

• Knowledge of DevOps best practices and CI/CD tools

• Demonstrable knowledge of Terraform

• Understanding of Service Management best practices frameworks such as ITI

• Knowledge of on-premise networking principles and products and how they integrate with cloud services

Benefits / Perks

• ☀️ Time Off: 25 days annual leave + public holidays
• 🎂 Birthday Leave: One extra day off to celebrate
• 💰 Company Pension Scheme
• 📞 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for wellbeing support
• 🏃‍♀️ EkcOlympics: Global team activity challenges
• 📚 Unlimited access to Pluralsight for continuous development
• 🌱 Real opportunities to grow, including international progression

Why Ekco

• ⭐️ Microsoft’s 2023 Rising Star Security Partner of the Year
• 🚀 First Irish Microsoft MSP to achieve all four Microsoft Security Specializations
• 🏅 Ranked 4th fastest-growing technology company in the Deloitte Fast50 Awards
• 🌈 A culture rooted in diversity, equality, inclusion & belonging
• 🎉 A commitment to internal mobility and career progression
• ✨ Flexible, family-friendly working at the heart of our culture
• 🔐 Proud to be your trusted security-first Managed Service Provider chosen by IT leaders to drive operational efficiency, scale smarter and stay ahead of risk.