Azure Cloud Operations Lead — Hybrid Role

LV=; Hitchin, Exeter; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days holiday

Pension matching

Annual bonus

Private medical insurance

Flexible benefits

Discounts on LV products

Job summary

LV= is seeking a Cloud Operations Lead to build and steer the operational capability of our Microsoft Azure cloud estate. You will own day-to-day health across Azure PaaS and AKS, applying SRE principles and strong service management.

The role is based in the UK with a hybrid setup from Bournemouth, Hitchin or Exeter, and involves defining standards, improving resilience, and turning incident insights into lasting improvements.

Qualifications

• Strong experience operating enterprise-scale Microsoft Azure environments.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive improvements.
• Experience with cloud financials and cost optimisation practices.

Responsibilities

• Establish and lead Cloud Operations, defining service ownership, support arrangements, operational controls, priorities and measures of success.
• Improve service reliability and observability using Azure Monitor and Application Insights to create actionable alerts and SLIs/SLAs.
• Provide technical leadership during major incidents, coordinating recovery and engagement with Microsoft support.
• Oversee AKS operations, including cluster health, capacity, upgrades, networking, and containerised microservices.
• Strengthen security and governance, partnering on policy compliance and access controls.
• Own operational FinOps, improving cost visibility, forecasting and budget monitoring.
• Drive automation with IaC using Terraform, Azure DevOps, PowerShell and Azure CLI.
• Maintain production readiness with runbooks and clear ownership.

Skills

Azure AKS

SRE practices

Cloud governance

Incident management

Automation mindset

Tools

Terraform

Azure DevOps

PowerShell

Azure CLI

Log Analytics

Job description

LV= is seeking a Cloud Operations Lead to build and steer the operational capability of our Microsoft Azure cloud estate. You will own day-to-day health across Azure PaaS and AKS, applying SRE principles and strong service management.

The role is based in the UK with a hybrid setup from Bournemouth, Hitchin or Exeter, and involves defining standards, improving resilience, and turning incident insights into lasting improvements.