Microsoft data, AI and security. And the systems AI acts on.
FERG Search is a Microsoft data, AI and security recruiter for Australia and New Zealand. It recruits data architects, Fabric, Microsoft Foundry and Azure OpenAI engineers, AI agent architects, and the Sentinel, Defender, Purview and AI governance people who make AI safe to switch on, plus architects and leads for Dynamics 365, Business Central and Power Platform. Permanent and contract, for Microsoft partners and the businesses building on Microsoft.
AI is taking on more of the routine build and support work. The roles that matter most now are the people who design the data, the agents and the controls around them, and that is where we focus. Pick the area, then the seat.
Fabric, Foundry and Azure: where AI is built and run.
Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Foundry, Azure OpenAI and Azure: the platforms AI is built and run on, the data it reads and the bill it runs up.
Data architects
The architects who decide where the data lives, who can see it and which number is right, before AI reads it.
Read moreFabric and data
Fabric engineers, data architects and the owners who keep capacity, spend and models under control.
Read moreAzure AI engineers
Pro-code engineers on Microsoft Foundry and Azure OpenAI who have shipped retrieval and agents that hold up with real users.
Read moreMLOps and LLMOps
The engineers who keep models and agents measured, monitored and inside budget after go-live.
Read moreAzure platform and integration
The engineers who run the Azure platform, keep the cloud bill in check and connect business applications to everything else.
Read moreAgents that keep working after the demo.
Copilot Studio, Microsoft Foundry and Agent 365: the architects and engineers who design agents, build them and keep them working for real users.
Microsoft AI and agents
Agent builders, AI architects and the adoption leads who turn licences into agents that run in production.
Read moreAI agent architects
The architects who decide what an agent may touch, which model it runs on and who owns it when it is wrong.
Read moreCopilot Studio and AI agents
Copilot Studio developers and agent builders who have put an agent in front of real users.
Read moreAgentic Business Solutions specialization
The certified builders, developers and architects a Microsoft partner needs for the badge, and the renewal a year later.
Read moreMicrosoft AI contractors
Contract AI talent for pilots, first agents and production rollouts, and a straight answer on when the seat should become permanent.
Read moreThe controls and the decisions that make AI safe to switch on.
Entra, Defender, Purview, Sentinel and Agent 365: who an agent is, what it can see, who is watching and who signed it off.
Microsoft security architects
The architects who make Copilot and agents safe to switch on: identity, data protection and the people watching.
Read moreSecurity operations
Sentinel and Defender engineers, security operations leads and the managed security teams who watch Microsoft estates around the clock.
Read moreAI governance and responsible AI
The leads who decide which AI uses are allowed, how they are checked and who signs them off.
Read moreDynamics 365, Business Central and Power Platform.
Architects, leads and managed services teams for Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations, Customer Engagement, Business Central and Power Platform: the systems AI agents act on, and the teams that keep them running.
Dynamics 365
Functional, technical and solution leadership hires for implementations, upgrades and hypercare.
Read moreBusiness Central
Consultants, leads and developers who can cover finance, supply chain and the code behind them.
Read morePower Platform
Developers, architects and the people who govern environments before they sprawl.
Read moreOne agent in production. Six seats behind it.
- The builder builds the agent in Copilot Studio and keeps it working for real users.
- The AI engineer builds what Copilot Studio cannot: retrieval, custom models and orchestration on Microsoft Foundry.
- The architect decides what the agent may touch, which model it runs on and how it hands over to a person.
- The data architect decides which data the agent reads and makes sure it is the right number.
- The security architect decides who the agent is, what it can see and who is watching.
- The governance lead decides whether the agent should exist, and can pause it when it misbehaves.
Straight answers on where to start.
What does FERG Search recruit?
Microsoft data, AI and security roles in Australia and New Zealand: data architects and Fabric engineers, Microsoft Foundry and Azure OpenAI engineers, MLOps and LLMOps, AI agent architects and Copilot Studio architects, Microsoft security architects, Sentinel and Defender engineers and AI governance leads, plus architects and leads for Dynamics 365, Business Central and Power Platform. Permanent and contract.
What should an AI programme hire first?
Whatever is missing underneath the agent. If the data is not trusted, a data architect. If the tenant has never been checked for oversharing, a security architect. If both are in order, a Copilot Studio developer or AI engineer for the first agent, and an architect before the third.
Do you still recruit Dynamics 365, Power Platform and managed services roles?
Yes. Architects, leads and managed services teams for Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations, Customer Engagement, Business Central and Power Platform, because agents act on those systems, and the people who design and run them stay in demand.
Not sure which seat it is?
Tell us what the agent or programme has to do. You will get back which seats it needs, who in the market can fill them, and what they are paid.