About this role
Salary: £75,000 - 85,000 per year
Requirements
- Experienced Azure professional with strong Azure engineering experience
- Technical leadership, platform ownership, and senior stakeholder capability
- Suitable background may include Azure Platform Lead, Principal Cloud Engineer, Lead SRE, Cloud Operations Lead, or Cloud Architect
- Enjoys staying close to the technology while seeking greater ownership and influence
Responsibilities
- Take technical ownership of our Azure cloud platform and shape its development
- Set standards and ensure the platform is reliable, resilient, secure, and cost-effective
- Own Azure platform strategy, reliability, resilience, and disaster recovery
- Work with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
- Oversee monitoring, observability, and AKS/Kubernetes
- Support cloud governance and cost optimisation
- Establish technical standards and best practices
- Mentor and develop engineering capability
- Initially assess our existing Azure environment and identify opportunities for improvement
- Over time, take on greater platform leadership, governance, and strategic ownership
Technologies
- Architect
- Azure
- Cloud
- Support
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- DevOps
More
We are hiring for an established, financially regulated business. This role offers a salary of £75,000–£85,000 and a hybrid working arrangement with two days onsite. It combines hands-on technical involvement with the opportunity to grow into broader platform leadership as the environment and wider team mature.
last updated 46 week of 2026