About this role
Salary: £74,000 - 89,000 per year
Requirements
- At least five years experience in a senior Azure engineering or cloud infrastructure role managing production environments.
- Strong Microsoft Azure expertise, including networking, storage, virtual machines, Microsoft Entra ID, monitoring and disaster recovery.
- Experience managing production workloads across AWS and Google Cloud Platform.
- Hands-on experience with Windows Server, SQL Server infrastructure, failover clustering and Always On availability groups.
- Proven experience migrating production workloads into Azure from other cloud or hosting providers.
- Strong understanding of Azure architecture, landing zones, cloud governance and security best practices.
- Experience designing and managing secure cloud networks, firewalls, identity controls and highly available SaaS infrastructure.
- Experience using monitoring tools such as Azure Monitor, PRTG or Grafana.
- Strong knowledge of disaster recovery, business continuity and ISO 27001 requirements.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform, Bicep and CI/CD pipelines.
- Practical experience using AI coding tools such as Claude Code or Codex to improve automation.
- Experience managing cloud infrastructure costs, budgets and optimisation.
- Strong problem-solving, communication and technical leadership skills, with the ability to take ownership and work independently.
- Flexibility to support planned maintenance and critical incidents outside normal working hours.
- Desirable: experience with OVH hosting and cloud consolidation programmes.
- Desirable: knowledge of Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or Octopus Deploy.
- Desirable: relevant Microsoft Azure, AWS or GCP certifications.
- An AI fluency and learning mindset, including active use of AI in day-to-day work, curiosity about new technologies, and ownership of continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
- Lead day-to-day cloud platform operations across Azure, AWS, GCP and OVH, ensuring services remain secure, reliable and highly available.
- Manage Windows Server and SQL Server hosting infrastructure, including clustering, patching, failovers and storage.
- Monitor platform performance, availability and capacity, identifying and resolving technical issues.
- Lead incident response, root cause analysis and service improvements to minimise disruption.
- Manage cloud security, access controls, vulnerability remediation and ISO 27001 compliance.
- Oversee disaster recovery, backup management and business continuity testing.
- Lead the migration of workloads from AWS, GCP and OVH into Microsoft Azure.
- Design and maintain secure, scalable Azure infrastructure, including networking, storage and landing zones.
- Develop infrastructure automation using Terraform, Bicep and CI/CD pipelines.
- Use AI coding tools such as Claude Code and Codex to improve automation and operational efficiency.
- Manage cloud infrastructure budgets, identify cost-saving opportunities and monitor expenditure.
- Provide technical leadership and work closely with engineering, infrastructure and security teams to support platform modernisation.
Technologies
- AI
- AWS
- Azure
- CI/CD
- Claude Code
- Cloud
- DevOps
- GCP
- GitHub
- Grafana
- Support
- SQL
- Security
- Terraform
- Windows
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We are Bellrock Technologies, part of Bellrock, and this Lead Platform Engineer role supports the cloud infrastructure behind our SaaS products, including Concerto, Mobiess, WiggleDesk and Carbon Architecture. It is a hands-on technical leadership role focused primarily on Microsoft Azure, with responsibility for infrastructure across AWS, Google Cloud Platform and OVH and a key focus on consolidation into Azure. You will report to our Head of Platform and work closely with engineering, database, infrastructure and security teams.
The role is based in Liverpool on a hybrid basis, with at least three days in the office and working hours Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 5:00pm; flexibility for critical incidents and planned maintenance outside normal hours is essential. We offer flexible and remote working where business needs allow. Our benefits include 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays and an extra day, the option to purchase up to five additional days, enhanced family leave, a Healthcare Cash Plan and Virtual GP, an Employee Assistance Programme, paid sick leave, life cover, a salary exchange pension scheme, everyday discounts, Cycle to Work and MotorSave schemes, a Refer a Friend scheme and Liftshare.
We support organisations across the UK with property, facilities management, compliance, engineering and technology services, helping create safer, smarter and more sustainable environments. We value our people, support career development and learning, and welcome applicants from all backgrounds with a commitment to a fair and accessible recruitment process.
last updated 45 week of 2026