Azure DevOps engineer in cloud infrastructure

Atos; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension Scheme - contributions matched

Private medical cover

Income Protection

Life Assurance

25 days paid leave + National Holidays

Flex benefits program

Job summary

Atos is seeking an experienced Azure Platform Engineering Lead to provide technical leadership for a high-performing Agile delivery team responsible for designing, building, automating and supporting secure cloud infrastructure within Microsoft Azure.

The role combines hands-on platform engineering with strategic direction, governance reporting and collaboration with Architecture to ensure secure, scalable cloud solutions across projects.

Qualifications

• Strong Azure platform experience with hands-on cloud engineering.
• Experience with secure cloud infrastructure in Azure environments.
• Proven ability to lead Agile delivery teams and governance.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day technical leadership and direction.
• Plan activity across sprints; ensure backlog is technically ready and aligned to milestones.
• Direct sprint planning, refinement, delivery, reviews and retrospectives.
• Review and approve work against acceptance criteria, standards, and security controls.
• Maintain RAID logs with owners, impacts, mitigations and target dates.
• Support project plan with estimates, sequencing and forecasts.
• Record technical and delivery decisions in the decision log.
• Provide governance reporting on delivery status, quality, risks and dependencies.
• Liaise with Architecture to implement approved HLD.
• Ensure traceability to HLD and security principles.
• Produce and approve LLDs for implementation and operations.
• Identify design gaps and obtain approvals before implementation.
• Capture architecture decisions and deviations in logs and documentation.

Skills

Azure platform experience

Databricks

Azure Functions

IAM/RBAC

Storage Accounts

Networking

Virtual Machines

Key Vault

Monitoring & Alerting

Terraform

Azure DevOps Pipelines

CI/CD

Azure DevOps Repos/Git

Docker

Docker Compose

Security scanning

Trivy

Bash scripting

Python scripting

VNets

NSGs

Private Endpoints

DNS

Monitoring & Troubleshooting

Agile/Scrum

English proficiency

SC clearance eligibility

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Описание:

We are seeking an experienced Azure Platform Engineering Lead to provide technical leadership for a high-performing Agile delivery team responsible for designing, building, automating and supporting secure cloud infrastructure within Microsoft Azure. The successful candidate will retain strong hands-on platform engineering capability while setting technical direction, planning and coordinating the team's work, assuring delivery quality, and supporting project governance.

Задачи:

Provide day-to-day technical leadership and direction, assigning work according to priorities, capabilities, dependencies and the project plan. Plan platform engineering activity across sprints and delivery increments; ensure the backlog is technically ready, sequenced and aligned to milestones. Direct sprint planning, refinement, delivery, review and retrospectives; remove blockers and escal... Review and approve work against acceptance criteria, engineering standards, security controls and documentation requirements. Maintain platform engineering items in the RAID log with owners, impacts, mitigations, target dates and escalation routes. Support the project plan with estimates, sequencing, dependencies, progress updates and forecasts. Record material technical and delivery decisions in the decision log. Provide governance reporting on delivery status, quality, risks, dependencies, decisions and actions. Liaise with Architecture to understand, challenge where appropriate, and implement the approved HLD. Keep solutions traceable to the HLD, security principles and project standards. Produce, coordinate and approve LLDs covering implementation, interfaces, networking, access controls, deployment, monitoring, support and operations. Identify design gaps, ambiguities or deviations early and obtain approval before implementation. Capture architecture decisions, exceptions and deviations in logs, plans and technical documentation.

Требования:

Strong Azure platform experience Databricks, Azure Functions, IAM/RBAC, Storage Accounts, Networking, Virtual Machines, Key Vault, Monitoring and Alerting. Infrastructure as Code using Terraform. Azure DevOps Pipelines and CI/CD implementation. Azure DevOps Repos/Git and branching strategies. Docker and Docker Compose. Security and vulnerability scanning using Trivy or similar. Bash and/or Python scripting and automation. Azure networking VNets, NSGs, Private Endpoints and DNS. Monitoring and troubleshooting Azure environments. Experience in highly regulated/secure environments, including solutions without Internet access. Agile/Scrum delivery experience. Fluent written and spoken English. Please note eligibility for SC clearance is essential for this role.

Условия:

• Pension Scheme - contributions matched up to 10%


• Private medical cover


• Income Protection


• Life Assurance


• 25 days paid leave + National Holidays


• Flex benefits program

We prioritise career advancement with a collaborative team environment. Whether you are looking to move into leadership or deepen your technical expertise, we provide the support to help you get there. You will work across a variety of industries and business contexts. This ensures continuous learning and the opportunity to apply innovative solutions to a wide range of customer challenges.