Lead Azure Platform Engineer

Excellent consulting opportunity to join a market leader in the wealth sector as a Lead Platform Engineer for their Azure / Cloud platform.

The Role

Reporting to the Head of Cloud Technologies, you will be responsible for designing, building and operating secure, scalable and reliable Azure infrastructure that underpins key business applications
You will provide technical designs for platform optimisation with a focus on rightsizing and cost management.
You will embed security by design and drive observability across the platforms, ensuring reliability and operational stability
You will work across multiple project activities, taking technical ownership of the outcomes
As a Lead in the platform team, you will provide technical guidance and ensure critical escalated issues are resolved.

Your skills

Minimum 7-10 years of infrastructure engineering experience
Deep Azure platform / services expertise -Compute / Network / Storage / Identity
Proven background designing and delivering cloud platform solutions within complex regulated environments – Cloud architecture / Azure landing zones
Azure governance standards, policy management and security controls
Automation and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and/or Bicep; ARM templates)
IAM / RBAC / Access Patterns /Microsoft Entra ID
Knowledge of common observability and APM tools
Experience with Azure networking VNETs, peering, Private Endpoints, VPN/ExpressRoute, Application Gateway, Azure Front Door
Technical leadership skills, mentorship and ability to influence
Known as a "doer" and outcome-focused

This is a great opportunity to work in a collaborative team environment with a blended CBD office/WFH policy.

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