Azure Cloud Platform Lead

Asda; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Pension up to 7% matched

Car allowance £5,700

15% discount in store

Wellbeing services access

Inclusion networks

Parental leave policies

Job summary

Asda is seeking an experienced Cloud Engineering Manager to lead the Cloud Platform Team in building and operating one of the UK’s largest Azure estates. The role blends people leadership, technical direction and delivery management with hands-on cloud engineering.

You will develop engineers, set priorities and standards, and drive platform, automation, security and cloud modernisation initiatives across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Experience leading cloud engineering teams in enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop a team of cloud engineers.
• Set technical direction and engineering standards across the cloud platform estate.
• Prioritise and allocate work across the team while balancing strategic initiatives and technical debt.
• Remove delivery blockers and support engineers in delivering high-quality outcomes.
• Support recruitment, performance management and career development activities.
• Build and support Azure platform services and cloud infrastructure.
• Drive improvements to Azure Landing Zones, governance frameworks and security controls.
• Deliver and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Improve platform reliability, observability and operational efficiency.
• Partner with engineering teams and stakeholders to enable secure and scalable cloud solutions.

Skills

Azure expert

Cloud leadership

Terraform

Infrastructure as Code

GitHub & Azure DevOps

Azure Landing Zones

RBAC & PIM

Azure Networking

Security controls

Observability tooling

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub

Job description

Asda is seeking an experienced Cloud Engineering Manager to lead the Cloud Platform Team in building and operating one of the UK’s largest Azure estates. The role blends people leadership, technical direction and delivery management with hands-on cloud engineering.

You will develop engineers, set priorities and standards, and drive platform, automation, security and cloud modernisation initiatives across the organisation.