Azure Cloud Platform Engineering Manager

ASDA; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary company bonus

Pension contributions (up to 7%)

Company car allowance £5,700

Colleague discount 15%

Wellbeing services and employee help

Inclusion networks

Parental leave policies

Job summary

Asda is seeking an experienced Cloud Engineering Manager to lead its Cloud Platform Team in the UK. You will guide a team of cloud engineers responsible for building, operating and evolving one of the UK’s largest Azure estates.

The role blends people leadership with hands-on cloud engineering, setting priorities, standards and driving platform, automation, security and cloud modernization initiatives across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Experience leading cloud engineering teams in enterprise environments.
• Strong hands-on capability with IaC and Terraform.
• Proficient with GitHub and Azure DevOps pipelines.
• Knowledge of Azure Landing Zones, policy and governance.
• Experience with RBAC, Entra ID and PIM.
• Proficient in Azure networking and security controls.
• Familiar with observability and monitoring tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop the cloud engineering team to high performance.
• Set technical direction and engineering standards for the cloud platform estate.
• Prioritise work across the team balancing initiatives, ops and debt.
• Remove blockers and support delivery of high-quality outcomes.
• Assist recruitment, performance management and career development actions.
• Build and maintain Azure platform services and cloud infrastructure.

Skills

Azure

Team Lead

Terraform

GitHub

Azure DevOps

Landing Zones

RBAC

Networking

Security

Observability

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

Azure DevOps

Job description

Asda is seeking an experienced Cloud Engineering Manager to lead its Cloud Platform Team in the UK. You will guide a team of cloud engineers responsible for building, operating and evolving one of the UK’s largest Azure estates.

The role blends people leadership with hands-on cloud engineering, setting priorities, standards and driving platform, automation, security and cloud modernization initiatives across the organisation.