Lead Platform Engineer

Job summary

The Lead Platform Engineer provides technical leadership for Azure cloud infrastructure and hybrid environments, improving the security, reliability, and efficiency of platforms supporting UK and European operations. The role leads and mentors a small engineering team while managing AKS/Kubernetes, Azure networking, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, monitoring, and SQL services. It also drives incident resolution, disaster recovery, governance, and cost optimisation using technologies including Terraform, Azure DevOps, Datadog, and Application Insights.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with Azure, Kubernetes, networking, Linux or Windows, scripting, containers, and cloud-native technologies.
• Experience configuring Palo Alto and Check Point firewalls, Azure Network Security Groups, and Application Security Groups.
• Experience with security management, architecture, and tooling.
• Strong CI/CD experience and experience supporting software engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a small team of platform engineers.
• Design, operate, and improve Azure cloud infrastructure and hybrid environments.
• Manage AKS/Kubernetes upgrades, scaling, security, and reliability.
• Design and maintain Azure networking, including VNets, DNS, firewalls, private endpoints, and load balancing.
• Implement infrastructure as code and CI/CD using Terraform and Azure DevOps.
• Oversee monitoring, logging, observability, alerting, and end-to-end platform health.
• Manage and troubleshoot SQL Server and Azure SQL connectivity, performance, backups, and availability.
• Ensure platform security, resilience, disaster recovery, governance, and cost optimisation.
• Lead incident resolution, root cause analysis, automation, documentation, and operational improvements.
• Define platform engineering standards and best practices.

Skills

Industry

Relocation