Lead Platform Engineer

Job summary

Lead cloud platform operations and infrastructure for SaaS products, with a primary focus on Microsoft Azure and production environments across AWS, Google Cloud Platform and OVH. The role covers incident response, security, disaster recovery, Windows Server and SQL Server hosting, and migration of workloads into Azure. It also involves building infrastructure automation with Terraform, Bicep and CI/CD pipelines while improving reliability, performance and cloud cost efficiency.

Benefits

Qualifications

• At least five years' experience in a senior Azure engineering or cloud infrastructure role managing production environments.
• Strong Microsoft Azure expertise, including networking, storage, virtual machines, Microsoft Entra ID, monitoring and disaster recovery.
• Experience managing production workloads across AWS and Google Cloud Platform.
• Hands-on experience with Windows Server, SQL Server infrastructure, failover clustering and Always On availability groups.
• Proven experience migrating production workloads into Azure from other cloud or hosting providers.
• Knowledge of Azure architecture, landing zones, cloud governance and security best practices.
• Experience designing and managing secure cloud networks, firewalls, identity controls and highly available SaaS infrastructure.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Azure Monitor, PRTG or Grafana.
• Knowledge of disaster recovery, business continuity and ISO 27001 requirements.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, Bicep and CI/CD pipelines.
• Practical experience using AI coding tools such as Claude Code or Codex.
• Experience managing cloud infrastructure costs, budgets and optimisation.
• Strong problem-solving, communication and technical leadership skills, with the ability to take ownership and work independently.
• Flexibility to support planned maintenance and critical incidents outside normal working hours.
• Desirable: experience with OVH hosting and cloud consolidation programmes.
• Desirable: knowledge of Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or Octopus Deploy.

Responsibilities

• Lead cloud platform operations across Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform and OVH.
• Manage Windows Server and SQL Server hosting, including clustering, patching, failovers and storage.
• Monitor platform performance, availability and capacity, and resolve technical issues.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis and service improvements.
• Manage cloud security, access controls, vulnerability remediation and ISO 27001 compliance.
• Oversee disaster recovery, backups and business continuity testing.
• Migrate workloads from AWS, Google Cloud Platform and OVH into Microsoft Azure.
• Design and maintain secure, scalable Azure infrastructure, networking, storage and landing zones.
• Develop infrastructure automation using Terraform, Bicep and CI/CD pipelines.
• Use AI coding tools such as Claude Code and Codex to improve automation and operational efficiency.
• Manage cloud infrastructure budgets, expenditure and cost-saving opportunities.
• Provide technical leadership and collaborate with engineering, infrastructure and security teams.

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