Lead Azure Platform Engineer
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