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