Azure Cloud Platform Manager — Engineering Leader

Yorkshire Building Society; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days + Bank Holidays (holiday)

On target bonus 7% (up to 15%)

Pension contributions 11%

Private medical insurance

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Job summary

Yorkshire Building Society is seeking a Cloud Platform Manager to lead the Cloud Platform Engineering team and own a secure, Azure-based platform that underpins software delivery across the organisation.

You will shape platform direction, drive governance, cost efficiency, reliability, and security, while collaborating with engineering, security and product teams to deliver scalable solutions. The role blends strategic leadership with hands-on guidance and a commitment to high performance.

Qualifications

• Strong Azure engineering expertise at scale (networking, IAM, security, policies).
• Hands-on IaC, CI/CD, and GitOps tooling (Terraform, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD).
• Deep understanding of SRE, observability and operational excellence in cloud environments.
• Proven people leadership: coaching, mentoring, capability development, high-performing teams.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and ability to influence across engineering, security and business.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop a team of Cloud Platform Engineers, embedding a culture of continuous learning and high performance.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership and architectural oversight across Azure, AKS, Terraform, CI/CD, observability and platform security.
• Own platform reliability, scalability, resilience and cost efficiency with governance across networking, identity, monitoring and security baselines.
• Drive roadmap planning, delivery prioritisation and governance, aligning activity with objectives and delivery frameworks.
• Act as the primary contact for Cloud Platform Engineering, communicating progress and promoting adoption across teams.

Skills

Azure at scale

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD

GitOps Tools

SRE/Observability

Leadership

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Job description

Yorkshire Building Society is seeking a Cloud Platform Manager to lead the Cloud Platform Engineering team and own a secure, Azure-based platform that underpins software delivery across the organisation.

You will shape platform direction, drive governance, cost efficiency, reliability, and security, while collaborating with engineering, security and product teams to deliver scalable solutions. The role blends strategic leadership with hands-on guidance and a commitment to high performance.