At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a skilled team in transforming cloud environments with Azure and GCP.
- Company: Join a forward-thinking London Council focused on tech transformation.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible working, generous leave, and excellent pension scheme.
- Other info: Dynamic role with opportunities for professional growth and development.
- Why this job: Shape modern cloud platforms and make a real impact in local government.
- Qualifications: Experience in leading cloud engineering teams and strong Azure/GCP skills.
The predicted salary is between 79005 - 88149 £ per year.
- Cloud Engineering Manager London Council
- Permanent
Salary
Location
- Westminster, London
- Hybrid and Flexible Working
The Opportunity Salt is exclusively partnering with a London based Council to recruit a Cloud Engineering Manager to lead a highly skilled Cloud Engineering team through one of the council's most exciting technology transformation programmes.
This is a fantastic opportunity to build and shape modern Azure and Google Cloud environments from the ground up rather than simply maintaining Legacy infrastructure.
You'll lead a team of up to six Cloud Engineers while remaining heavily involved in technical strategy, solution design and the delivery of large scale cloud transformation projects.
Approximately 20% of the role focuses on leadership and people management, with the remaining 80% dedicated to technical leadership, cloud architecture, engineering strategy and delivering modern cloud platforms.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach and develop a team of up to six Cloud Engineers.
- Manage Agile delivery, sprint planning, stand ups and engineering ceremonies.
- Design and implement secure Azure and Google Cloud environments.
- Deliver Azure Landing Zones and modern cloud platforms.
- Drive Zero Trust cloud architecture and security best practice.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Bicep.
- Apply Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) principles.
- Lead cloud migration and modernisation initiatives.
- Drive Dev Ops and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices.
- Ensure cloud governance, resilience and operational excellence.
- Work closely with Architecture, Security, Development, Data and Infrastructure teams.
- Review new project requests and provide technical direction, solution design and delivery estimates.
- Manage Azure cost optimisation and Fin Ops activities.
- Build delivery roadmaps and continually improve engineering processes.
- Manage supplier relationships and technical delivery partners.
Essential Experience
- Experience leading Cloud Engineering or Infrastructure Engineering teams.
- Strong Azure engineering and architecture experience.
- Experience working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Azure Landing Zones.
- Azure networking, identity and cloud security.
- Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
- Bicep.
- Azure Dev Ops.
- Dev Ops and CI/CD.
- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
- Cloud governance.
- Cloud migration programmes.
- Azure cost optimisation and Fin Ops.
- Technical solution design.
- Agile, Scrum and Kanban.
- Stakeholder management.
- Supplier management.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills.
Desirable
- Local Government experience.
- Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF).
- Zero Trust architecture.
- Multi cloud environments.
- Enterprise scale transformation programmes.
Benefits
- Hybrid and flexible working.
- 36 hour working week.
- 31 days annual leave plus your birthday off.
- Excellent Local Government Pension Scheme.
- Private Medical Insurance.
- Cycle to Work Scheme.
- Employee discounts.
- Learning and development opportunities.
This is an outstanding opportunity for an experienced Cloud Engineering leader who enjoys remaining technically involved whilst leading the delivery of enterprise scale cloud transformation across one of London's leading local authorities.
- *Rates depend on experience and client requirements
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