Cloud Engineering Lead (Azure)

Cloud Engineering Lead (Azure)

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6 month contract, scope to extend

£600 - £625 P/D Inside IR35

Hybrid

Active SC would be advantageous

We are looking for a hands-on Cloud Engineering Lead with deep Microsoft Azure expertise to build, run and
productise an enterprise Azure platform. You will turn approved architecture into policy-governed infrastructure
delivered entirely through code and automated pipelines, make sure the platform is reliable and operationally ready,
and treat product teams as customers, giving them a clear, low-friction route onto the platform.

Key responsibilities -

Platform engineering

• Lead design and build of Azure Landing Zones: management groups, subscription vending and hub-and-spoke
• networking.
• Own the provisioning pipelines and a reusable Terraform/Bicep module library built on Azure Verified Modules.
• Enforce governance as code (Azure Policy, RBAC/PIM, Defender for Cloud) and integrate ServiceNow to
• automate platform requests.
• Set engineering quality standards: code reviews, branching and release strategy, pipeline quality gates.
• Lead brownfield remediation of existing subscriptions and workloads onto platform standards.

Reliability and operations

• Define platform SLOs and track service health through observability built on Azure Monitor / Log Analytics,
• integrated with Sentinel (Security Operations) and the NOC.
• Drive operational readiness and acceptance, with runbooks and documentation in place before handover to Cloud
• Run (BAU operations).
• Lead resolution of platform incidents, feed root causes into problem management, and reduce toil through
• automation as part of continual service improvement.

Consumer experience and adoption

• Understand the consumer journey and operate the platform "front door": intake, onboarding and the service
• catalogue.
• Publish paved roads with clear documentation, and run onboarding clinics to drive adoption.
• Use feedback and friction analysis to improve the experience, including the AVD / engineering workspace
• experience.
• Apply the "rule of three": a pattern requested three or more times becomes a productisation candidate for the
• catalogue. xgikmsk

Mandatory skills & experience

• Extensive hands-on Microsoft Azure experience (typically 7+ years in IT, 4+ on Azure) covering design,
• architecture and implementation of enterprise platforms.
• Proven delivery of Azure Landing Zones / Cloud Adoption Framework: management groups, sub...