Description
We are seeking an experienced Azure Platform Engineering Lead to provide technical leadership for a high-performing Agile delivery team responsible for designing, building, automating and supporting secure cloud infrastructure within Microsoft Azure. The successful candidate will retain strong hands-on platform engineering capability while setting technical direction, planning and coordinating the team's work, assuring delivery quality, and supporting project governance.
Tasks
•Provide day-to-day technical leadership and direction, assigning work according to priorities, capabilities, dependencies and the project plan.
•Plan platform engineering activity across sprints and delivery increments; ensure the backlog is technically ready, sequenced and aligned to milestones.
•Direct sprint planning, refinement, delivery, review and retrospectives; remove blockers and escalate constraints.
•Review and approve work against acceptance criteria, engineering standards, security controls and documentation requirements.
•Maintain platform engineering items in the RAID log with owners, impacts, mitigations, target dates and escalation routes.
•Support the project plan with estimates, sequencing, dependencies, progress updates and forecasts.
•Record material technical and delivery decisions in the decision log.
•Provide governance reporting on delivery status, quality, risks, dependencies, decisions and actions.
•Liaise with Architecture to understand, challenge where appropriate, and implement the approved HLD.
•Keep solutions traceable to the HLD, security principles and project standards.
•Produce, coordinate and approve LLDs covering implementation, interfaces, networking, access controls, deployment, monitoring, support and operations.
•Identify design gaps, ambiguities or deviations early and obtain approval before implementation.
•Capture architecture decisions, exceptions and deviations in logs, plans and technical documentation.
Requirements
•Strong Azure platform experience: Databricks, Azure Functions, IAM/RBAC, Storage Accounts, Networking, Virtual Machines, Key Vault, Monitoring and Alerting.
•Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
•Azure DevOps Pipelines and CI/CD implementation.
•Azure DevOps Repos/Git and branching strategies.
•Docker and Docker Compose.
•Security and vulnerability scanning using Trivy or similar.
•Bash and/or Python scripting and automation.
•Azure networking: VNets, NSGs, Private Endpoints and DNS.
•Monitoring and troubleshooting Azure environments.
•Experience in highly regulated/secure environments, including solutions without Internet access.
•Agile/Scrum delivery experience.
•Fluent written and spoken English.
•Eligibility for SC clearance is essential for this role.
Conditions
•Pension Scheme - contributions matched up to 10%
•Private medical cover
•Income Protection
•Life Assurance
•25 days paid leave + National Holidays
•Flex benefits program
•We prioritise career advancement with a collaborative team environment. Whether you are looking to move into leadership or deepen your technical expertise, we provide the support to help you get there.
•You will work across a variety of industries and business contexts. This ensures continuous learning and the opportunity to apply innovative solutions to a wide range of customer challenges.
