My client requires an Azure Platform Team Lead reporting to the Head of Solutions. You will lead a high-performing solutions engineering team reshaping how they deliver and operate systems.

You will lead a team of platform engineers enabling other implementation teams to deliver cloud solutions and define the cloud architecture and governance.

This role is an exciting opportunity for someone passionate about their craft, thrives in a collaborative environment and enjoys working in a culture that rewards innovation and initiative.

Essential & Desirable skills

Leadership Skills:

• Expertise in building and leading teams and comfortable leading architectural discussions
• Able to be hands-on with infrastructure as code
• Develop iterative product roadmaps
• Build strong principles and enforce robust methods and patterns
• Comfortable having conversations with clients, senior leadership and technology teams
• Manage complexity across multiple projects and stakeholders
• Coaching and mentoring the team
• In touch with market trends
• Experience in Azure compute, storage, networking and cloud security
• Experience developing cloud solutions and building out landing zone zones
• Experience in scripting with modern languages like Terraform, PowerShell, Ansible
• Experience working in agile development teams
• DevOps practices
• Experience of scalability, high availability and disaster recovery requirements

Technical Skills:

• Cloud Security
• Azure Networking
• PowerShell
• Azure Monitor
• Azure IaaS (VM/VMSS)
• Azure PaaS
• Azure Active Directory
• Azure CI/CD with Azure DevOps
• Hashicorp Terraform
• Azure Pipelines (YAML)

Desirable Skills:

These are not essential to the role but is a definite plus if the candidate has any experience of the following:

• Azure SQL
• ISO 27001
• Cyber Essentials