Cloud Platform Engineering Lead
We are currently partnering with a market-leading Lloyd’s Insurer to recruit a Cloud Platform Engineering Lead. This role focuses on platform engineering with end-to-end ownership of the cloud platform across architecture, automation and security. The role remains hands-on while providing senior technical leadership across IT and partnering closely with Architecture, Security and IT Operations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own cloud platform architecture (primarily Azure with some AWS) ensuring security, scalability, resilience and alignment to enterprise standards and landing zone principles
- Design and evolve shared platform capabilities including networking, identity, security, observability, backup and disaster recovery
- Treat the cloud platform as a product with clear standards, roadmaps and continuous improvement
- Remain hands-on building and evolving the platform using Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD and automation
- Develop reusable patterns, configurations and modules for consistent platform use
- Set and enforce engineering standards across cloud, automation and configuration management
- Embed security by design aligned to standards such as NIST, ISO and GDPR
- Own cloud security controls, policies and technical guardrails
- Ensure high availability, resilience, backup and disaster recovery readiness
- Act as a senior escalation point for cloud incidents and major outages
- Optimise platform performance, availability and cost efficiency
- Lead FinOps practices including cost management, budgeting and optimisation
- Drive monitoring, alerting and observability while contributing to long term cloud strategy
Skills & Experience:
- 8+ years of hands‐on experience designing and operating cloud environments, primarily Azure (AWS experience beneficial).
- Strong background in platform engineering, cloud architecture, and automation, not just infrastructure operations.
- Proven experience building and owning cloud platforms using Infrastructure‐as‐Code, including the lifecycle management of terraform assets
- Experience operating in regulated or security‐sensitive environments. Ideally the Insurance Market.