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30 Apr 2026 (Last week)
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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

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