Lead Azure Platform Engineer
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- England,London,City of London
- Full Time, Permanent
- Competitive salary
Job Description:
Location: London, Watford or Bristol (Hybrid working options available)
We’re seeking a Lead Azure Platform Engineer to play a key role in designing, building and running our Azure platform services. This is a hands-on technical leadership role, combining deep engineering expertise with mentoring, standards-setting and influence across teams.
You’ll work as part of our Platform Engineering capability, enabling delivery teams through secure, scalable and well-architected Azure platforms, while helping drive modern DevOps, automation and reliability practices.
What You’ll Do
*Design, build and evolve Azure platform services used across delivery teams.
*Lead the implementation of secure, scalable and resilient Azure environments.
*Be hands-on with development work: writing code, reviewing pull requests and deploying to production.
*Act as a technical authority within the platform and delivery ecosystem.
*Own and evolve Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform and/or Bicep.
*Drive automation that removes toil, improves reliability and accelerates delivery.
*Leverage GitHub Copilot and AI-assisted tooling to increase productivity and quality.
*Champion consistent patterns for networking, identity, security and landing zones.
*Lead the development of CI/CD pipelines and automated infrastructure delivery.
*Promote strong observability, monitoring and alerting practices.
*Take part in incident response, root cause analysis and platform stability improvements.
*Balance build-and-run responsibilities with a focus on long-term platform health.
*Set and maintain engineering standards, guardrails and best practices.
*Mentor engineers through pairing, code reviews and knowledge-sharing sessions.
*Proactively identify technical debt and lead initiatives to address it.
*Influence tooling, ways of working and adoption of new technologies across teams.
Who You Are
Essential Experience & Skills
*Strong experience as a cloud, platform or DevOps engineer.
*Deep knowledge of Microsoft Azure and core platform services.
*Proven experience delivering Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform and/or Bicep).
*Strong scripting skills (PowerShell, Bash and/or Python).
*Experience building or operating CI/CD pipelines.
*Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
*An AI first mindset focused on skills development for SRE
Desirable Experience
*Azure networking and security architecture experience.
*Container platforms (Docker, AKS).
*Cloud governance, cost management (FinOps) or security practices.
*Azure DevOps and/or GitHub enterprise environments.
*Cross-plane experience
We’re seeking a Lead Azure Platform Engineer to play a key role in designing, building and running our Azure platform services. This is a hands-on technical leadership role, combining deep engineering expertise with mentoring, standards-setting and influence across teams.
You’ll work as part of our Platform Engineering capability, enabling delivery teams through secure, scalable and well-architected Azure platforms, while helping drive modern DevOps, automation and reliability practices.
What You’ll Do
*Design, build and evolve Azure platform services used across delivery teams.
*Lead the implementation of secure, scalable and resilient Azure environments.
*Be hands-on with development work: writing code, reviewing pull requests and deploying to production.
*Act as a technical authority within the platform and delivery ecosystem.
*Own and evolve Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform and/or Bicep.
*Drive automation that removes toil, improves reliability and accelerates delivery.
*Leverage GitHub Copilot and AI-assisted tooling to increase productivity and quality.
*Champion consistent patterns for networking, identity, security and landing zones.
*Lead the development of CI/CD pipelines and automated infrastructure delivery.
*Promote strong observability, monitoring and alerting practices.
*Take part in incident response, root cause analysis and platform stability improvements.
*Balance build-and-run responsibilities with a focus on long-term platform health.
*Set and maintain engineering standards, guardrails and best practices.
*Mentor engineers through pairing, code reviews and knowledge-sharing sessions.
*Proactively identify technical debt and lead initiatives to address it.
*Influence tooling, ways of working and adoption of new technologies across teams.
Who You Are
Essential Experience & Skills
*Strong experience as a cloud, platform or DevOps engineer.
*Deep knowledge of Microsoft Azure and core platform services.
*Proven experience delivering Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform and/or Bicep).
*Strong scripting skills (PowerShell, Bash and/or Python).
*Experience building or operating CI/CD pipelines.
*Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
*An AI first mindset focused on skills development for SRE
Desirable Experience
*Azure networking and security architecture experience.
*Container platforms (Docker, AKS).
*Cloud governance, cost management (FinOps) or security practices.
*Azure DevOps and/or GitHub enterprise environments.
*Cross-plane experience
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