Azure Platform Lead

SECURITY CLEARANCE

Active SC clearance required.

ROLE OVERVIEW

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.

LEADERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE ACCOUNTABILITIES

• 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 escape 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.

ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN RESPONSIBILITIES

• 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.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

• 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.

Job Title: Azure Platform Lead

Location: London, UK

Job Type: Contract

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