At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the design and evolution of our Azure cloud platform with hands-on leadership.
- Company: Join a dynamic team at OSHQ, embracing hybrid work culture.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, professional development, and a supportive team environment.
- Other info: Opportunity for career growth in a fast-paced, innovative tech environment.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by shaping cloud strategies and mentoring fellow engineers.
- Qualifications: Strong experience in Azure and cloud engineering, with leadership skills.
Join our Cloud Platform team as a Lead Engineer and help design, build, and evolve our Azure cloud platform, with Azure Landing Zones at its core. This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll play a key part in building a secure, scalable, and well-governed cloud foundation - one that helps our product teams move quickly, experiment safely, and deliver great outcomes for our customers. You'll set the technical direction for our Azure platform, lead the evolution of our landing zones, and act as a trusted sounding board across engineering, security, and architecture. You'll work closely with a small, supportive team of Engineers and Senior Engineers, providing the platform that underpins our cloud-hosted systems and enables development teams to do their best work. If you enjoy combining deep technical expertise with mentoring, collaboration, and real-world impact, we want to hear from you.
Please note that due to the nature of this work, this role is conditional on holding or subsequently passing National Security Vetting SC Clearance prior to appointment.
What you'll be doing:
- Own the design and evolution of Azure Landing Zones aligned to Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework and enterprise good practices.
- Define and enforce platform standards for networking, identity, security, governance, and cost management.
- Build and maintain infrastructure as code (e.g. Bicep, Terraform) to deliver repeatable, self-service platform capabilities.
- Own core Azure services including Management Groups, Subscriptions, Azure Policy, RBAC, networking (hub and spoke), and monitoring.
- Embed security by design, including identity, zero trust principles, logging, and threat protection.
- Partner with application and product teams to enable smooth onboarding onto the platform.
- Act as a technical leader and mentor for other cloud platform engineers.
- Influence cloud strategy and roadmap, balancing long-term architecture with pragmatic delivery.
- Support platform operations, reliability, and continual improvement.
What we're looking for:
- Strong experience as a Senior / Lead Cloud or Platform Engineer, ideally in Azure first or Azure centric environments.
- Deep understanding of Azure core services, especially: Entra ID (Azure AD), RBAC, Privileged Identity Management, Management Groups, Subscriptions.
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