Platform Engineering Lead (DevOps)

Platform / DevOps Engineering Lead (Microsoft Cloud/MSD)

Sparta Global are hiring a Platform Engineering Lead to build and lead a true platform engineering capability that underpins all cloud‐native, SaaS, low‐code, and custom development across the UK estate.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the design, deployment, and operation of Azure platform services, including pipelines, environments, messaging infrastructure, and core cloud services.
• Define and implement modern CI/CD and infrastructure‐as‐code standards across a hybrid landscape (Power Platform, Dynamics, Salesforce integrations, custom services).
• Lead the move from traditional IT Ops and ticket‐based workflows to product‐oriented DevOps and platform ownership.
• Establish secure, scalable deployment patterns that support frequent change, experimentation, and AI/agent‐based services.
• Enable and govern data access patterns, including Fabric and semantic layers, with a strong focus on security, compliance, and operational insight.
• Provide cloud financial management (capacity, forecasting, optimisation) expertise in partnership with finance and leadership teams.
• Act as a senior technical mentor to engineers transitioning from legacy ops, waterfall delivery, or partial DevOps models.
• Collaborate closely with automation and Salesforce leads to ensure consistent tooling, patterns, and ways of working across all three teams.
• Support team mobilisation activities, working with agile coaches and leadership to embed sustainable delivery models.