Azure Cloud Platform Lead — Transformation & Scale

Amtis Professional Ltd; Burton upon Trent; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Benefits package

Job summary

Amtis Professional Ltd is seeking a Cloud Platform / Infrastructure Manager to take the Azure estate to the next level and to build the team that runs it. The role is based in Derbyshire (preferred) or London with a hybrid model requiring 1–2 days in the office.

You will lead the transformation of the Azure environment, ensure secure, scalable, and cost-conscious operations, and report to the Director of Infrastructure & Operations. Manage 8+ engineers and drive cloud-native modernization.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on cloud infrastructure experience with Azure.
• Experience leading cloud transformation (2+ years).
• Terraform/Infrastructure as Code proficiency.
• Scripting in PowerShell or Python.
• Broad Azure knowledge across PaaS, AKS, networking.
• Security and governance with Entra ID, Key Vault, Defender for Cloud.
• Healthcare/regulatory domain experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own the availability, performance and resilience of Azure services.
• Modernise workloads towards PaaS, serverless and containers where beneficial.
• Build landing zone standards and CI/CD pipelines with IaC patterns.
• Govern Azure governance, policy-as-code and guardrails; align with security requirements.
• Drive cost-aware engineering with FinOps collaboration.
• Lead and develop an 8+ person cloud team and manage suppliers.

Skills

Azure

Cloud infrastructure

Terraform

Azure DevOps

PowerShell

Python

AKS

Networking

Security

Monitoring

Tools

Terraform

Bicep/ARM

Azure DevOps

Job description

Amtis Professional Ltd is seeking a Cloud Platform / Infrastructure Manager to take the Azure estate to the next level and to build the team that runs it. The role is based in Derbyshire (preferred) or London with a hybrid model requiring 1–2 days in the office.

You will lead the transformation of the Azure environment, ensure secure, scalable, and cost-conscious operations, and report to the Director of Infrastructure & Operations. Manage 8+ engineers and drive cloud-native modernization.