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    "description": "<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">This position allows you to join a fast-growing technology organisation focused on the critical migration and architectural evolution of our .NET services from AWS to Azure. If you are passionate about cloud-native transformation and want to lead the shift toward asynchronous, high-scale architectures, this opportunity is for you.</span></p>\n<p><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Role Summary</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">As an Azure Principal Platform Engineer, you will act as the authoritative Subject Matter Expert (SME) to help a major fintech architect, bootstrap, and build from scratch an enterprise-grade, <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">multi-tenant</span> AKS platform on a greenfield Azure landing zone. 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