Lead Platform Engineer

Overview

Lead Platform Engineer Azure Hybrid Up to £85k

Join a scaling internal platform team delivering the foundations for digital success. This is your opportunity to lead the engineering direction of a brand-new cloud-native platform within a high-growth UK organisation.

Are you a hands-on platform engineer with Azure expertise, leadership experience, and a passion for automation? Read on.

Why this role

This is a chance to shape a modern engineering platform from the ground up. You'll work closely with product teams, architects, and stakeholders across the business to drive forward a lean, high-impact platform. This team is newly formed, the platform is greenfield, and your voice will be critical in its evolution.

Key responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day platform operations, including monitoring, incident response and troubleshooting.


• Move across orchestration, automation, pipelines, cloud services, observability and security domains.


• Leading and managing short and long term project planning.


• Developing and implementing cloud governance, security and compliance.


• Leading automation and IaC improvements.


• Providing mentorship and professional development for the team of cloud engineers.

Key experience

• Proven hands-on Microsoft Azure experience


• Strong knowledge of IaC and configuration management tools (Terraform or similar)


• Experience using PowerShell, Azure CLI and Bash for automation tasks


• Proven experience leading a platform/cloud team


• Containerisation and Orchestration experience (Docker, Kubernetes or similar)


• Experience with CI/CD integration using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions etc

The offer

• Salary up to £85,000 + benefits


• Hybrid working with offices in Leighton Buzzard


• 25+ days holiday, private healthcare, pension, and continuous learning support


• A role with real autonomy, visible impact, and progression