Azure DevOps engineer in cloud infrastructure

We are seeking an experienced Azure Platform Engineering Lead to provide technical leadership for a high-performing Agile delivery team responsible for designing, building, automating and supporting secure cloud infrastructure within Microsoft Azure. The successful candidate will retain strong hands-on platform engineering capability while setting technical direction, planning and coordinating the team's work, assuring delivery quality, and supporting project governance.

• Provide day-to-day technical leadership and direction, assigning work according to priorities, capabilities, dependencies and the project plan.
• Plan platform engineering activity across sprints and delivery increments; ensure the backlog is technically ready, sequenced and aligned to milestones.
• Direct sprint planning, refinement, delivery, review and retrospectives; remove blockers and escalate constraints.
• Review and approve work against acceptance criteria, engineering standards, security controls and documentation requirements.
• Maintain platform engineering items in the RAID log with owners, impacts, mitigations, target dates and escalation routes.
• Support the project plan with estimates, sequencing, dependencies, progress updates and forecasts.
• Record material technical and delivery decisions in the decision log.
• Provide governance reporting on delivery status, quality, risks, dependencies, decisions and actions.
• Liaise with Architecture to understand, challenge where appropriate, and implement the approved HLD.
• Keep solutions traceable to the HLD, security principles and project standards.
• Produce, coordinate and approve LLDs covering implementation, interfaces, networking, access controls, deployment, monitoring, support and operations.
• Identify design gaps, ambiguities or deviations early and obtain approval before implementation.
• Capture architecture decisions, exceptions and deviations in logs, plans and technical documentation.

• Strong Azure platform experience Databricks, Azure Functions, IAM/RBAC, Storage Accounts, Networking, Virtual Machines, Key Vault, Monitoring and Alerting.
• Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Azure DevOps Pipelines and CI/CD implementation.
• Azure DevOps Repos/Git and branching strategies.
• Docker and Docker Compose.
• Security and vulnerability scanning using Trivy or similar.
• Bash and/or Python scripting and automation.
• Azure networking VNets, NSGs, Private Endpoints and DNS.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting Azure environments.
• Experience in highly regulated/secure environments, including solutions without Internet access.
• Agile/Scrum delivery experience.
• Fluent written and spoken English.
• Please note eligibility for SC clearance is essential for this role.

• Pension Scheme - contributions matched up to 10%
• Private medical cover
• Income Protection
• Life Assurance
• 25 days paid leave + National Holidays
• Flex benefits program
• We prioritise career advancement with a collaborative team environment. Whether you are looking to move into leadership or deepen your technical expertise, we provide the support to help you get there.
• You will work across a variety of industries and business contexts. This ensures continuous learning and the opportunity to apply innovative solutions to a wide range of customer challenges.