Lead Platform Engineer

Your new role

The Lead Platform Engineer is a customer-focused, hands-on servant-leader responsible for building and evolving a core digital platform used by engineering teams.

Success in this role is directly linked to enabling those teams through automation, scalability, and high reliability. A strong working knowledge of Microsoft Azure is essential.

The role involves daily coding, technical leadership across orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, cloud services, observability, and security-working alongside site reliability, onboarding, architecture, and delivery functions. You're expected to scale impact through others by upskilling team members, hiring where needed, and championing platform engineering practices. With an emphasis on lean structure and automation, the team consists of matrix-managed engineers with diverse skill sets.

As a key engineering leader, you'll contribute strategically and operationally to the platform's success, ensuring it delivers resilient foundations for all digital services hosted on it.

What you'll need to succeed

• Advanced knowledge of Terraform syntax, modules, state management, workspaces, and backend configuration
• Deep understanding of Azure Terraform provider capabilities and limitations
• Experience integrating Terraform into CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, etc.)
• Understanding of ARM templates and resource management
• Containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Knowledge of core services (Virtual Networks, VMs, Storage, App Services, etc.)
• Experience with Azure AD, RBAC, Key Vault, and security best practices
• Proficiency with Git workflows (branching, merging, pull requests)
• Experience using PowerShell, Azure CLI, and Bash for automation tasks
• Previous experience with Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar tools
• Understanding of cloud networking concepts (VNets, subnets, NSGs, etc.)
• Knowledge of security best practices for cloud environments
• Experience optimising cloud spend and resource efficiency

What you need to do now

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