Azure Lead Engineer

Our client is a large global enterprise operating across multiple markets, focusing on digital transformation and innovation, with significant investment in modern cloud, data, and AI capabilities.

• Five or more years in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps or SRE.
• At least three years of hands-on experience with Azure.
• Proven design and operation of enterprise, multi-subscription Azure platforms and Landing Zones.
• Strong knowledge of management groups, Azure Policy, Microsoft Entra ID, RBAC/PIM, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and cost controls.
• Strong Azure networking experience: hub-and-spoke or Virtual WAN, VNets, routing, DNS, NSGs, Private Endpoints, firewalls, and ExpressRoute/VPN.
• Production experience with Infrastructure as Code tools, Git-based delivery, CI/CD, and scripting such as Python or PowerShell.
• Demonstrated technical leadership, mentoring, stakeholder influence, and delivery in a global enterprise environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert; Azure Administrator Associate or Azure Security Engineer Associate.
• Experience with multi-cloud environments, platform-product operating models, SRE practices, and organisational change.

Platform strategy and technical leadership:

• Own the Azure technical roadmap, reference architectures, standards, and reusable implementation patterns.
• Lead architecture and design reviews; make pragmatic technical decisions and communicate trade-offs clearly.
• Mentor engineers, strengthen peer review and reduce dependency on individual subject-matter experts.

Landing Zones, governance and security:

• Design, evolve, and operate enterprise Azure Landing Zones, including management groups, subscriptions, identity, policy, shared services and workload guardrails.
• Implement policy-driven governance, RBAC, privileged access, tagging, compliance monitoring, and security-by-design controls.
• Partner with Security, Architecture, and Compliance teams to remediate risks and maintain audit-ready evidence.

Automation and platform engineering:

• Drive Infrastructure as Code and automated lifecycle management using approved enterprise tooling, Git, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Build self-service subscription and platform capabilities with clear product interfaces, documentation, and operational ownership.
• Control configuration drift, improve repeatability and minimise manual operational work.

Reliability, operations and optimisation:

• Establish observability, operational readiness, backup/recovery, and incident-management standards.
• Lead complex troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and engineering improvements arising from incidents and problems.
• Optimise resilience, performance, and cost through capacity management, FinOps practices, and measurable service outcomes.

Delivery and stakeholder leadership:

• Translate strategy into a prioritised backlog; identify dependencies, risks, owners, and escalation paths.
• Coordinate delivery across squads and stakeholders while maintaining architecture, security, and engineering quality.
• Represent Cloud Hub in Azure decisions and explain technical recommendations to both engineering and business audiences.

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