Lead Platform Engineer

Overview

As Lead Platform Engineer, you own and evolve the cloud platform to support a growing data business. You will secure, scale and cost-optimize the Azure-based estate while driving automation and IaC to modernize infrastructure. You’ll lead a cloud separation and migration program spanning Azure and GCP, shaping platform standards and developer experience. This is a hands-on, influential role with cross-functional collaboration and opportunities to define architecture and tooling. You’ll work in a collaborative, hybrid setup with visible impact on reliability and data platform capabilities.

Pay / Benefits

• Private healthcare after probation
• Charity donation scheme
• Work-from-anywhere week
• Hybrid working
• Regular team events
• Flexible and impactful role

Responsibilities

• Own and manage the Azure cloud estate with a focus on security, reliability and cost efficiency
• Lead adoption of Terraform and Infrastructure as Code, bringing existing infrastructure under management
• Own and operate Kubernetes workloads including deployments, ingress, scaling, upgrades, troubleshooting and day-to-day platform operations
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps
• Support cloud migration and separation projects across Azure and GCP
• Design, automate and test disaster recovery and business continuity solutions
• Improve monitoring, alerting and observability across the platform
• Manage cloud security, identity, secrets and certificates
• Provide technical guidance on Azure architecture and platform engineering
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues and act as senior technical escalation point
• Collaborate with development and technology teams to improve platform reliability and developer experience

Key requirements

• Azure cloud engineering experience with focus on security, reliability and cost efficiency
• Proven experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
• Hands-on Kubernetes operations and management
• CI/CD with Azure DevOps
• Experience with cloud migrations, especially Azure and GCP
• Disaster recovery and business continuity design and testing
• Monitoring and observability improvements
• Cloud security, identity, secrets and certificates management
• Strong troubleshooting and senior escalation capabilities
• Collaboration with cross-functional teams to improve platform reliability

• collaboration
• leadership
• problem-solving
• Azure
• GCP
• Terraform

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