Lead Platform Engineer

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 trouble shooting.
- Moving 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 the Leighton Buzzard
• 25+ days holiday, private healthcare, pension, and continuous learning support
• A role with real autonomy, visible impact, and progression