Azure Platform Lead

TEKsystems; Greater London; On-site; GBP 96,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

TEKsystems in London seeks an experienced Azure Platform Lead to provide technical leadership for a high-performing Agile team. The role designs, builds, automates and supports secure Azure infrastructure, aligning with security controls and project standards.

You will lead sprint activities, review work against criteria, and ensure clear architecture decisions are documented. Strong Azure, DevOps and scripting skills are essential for success in a regulated environment.

Qualifications

• Strong Azure platform experience with cloud-based components and security controls.
• IaC using Terraform to provision and manage resources.
• Azure DevOps Pipelines and CI/CD implementations.
• Experience with Azure DevOps Repos/Git and branching strategies.
• Docker and Docker Compose for containerized workloads.
• Security and vulnerability scanning using Trivy or similar.
• Scripting in Bash and/or Python for automation.
• Azure networking including VNets, NSGs, Private Endpoints and DNS.
• Experience in highly regulated/secure environments, including air-gapped setups.
• Agile/Scrum delivery experience.
• Fluent English in written and spoken form.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day technical leadership, assign work by priorities and plan platform work across sprints.
• Ensure backlog is technically ready and aligned to milestones.
• Direct sprint planning, refinement, delivery, reviews and retrospectives; remove blockers.
• Review work against acceptance criteria, engineering standards and security controls.
• Maintain RAID log with owners, impacts and mitigations; update progress and forecasts.
• Coordinate governance reporting on delivery status, quality, risks and decisions.
• Produce and approve LLDs covering implementation, interfaces, deployment and monitoring.
• Capture architecture decisions and deviations with documentation.

Skills

Agile/Scrum

English fluency

Tools

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

Trivy

Bash

Python scripting

VNets/NSGs/DNS

Job description

SECURITY CLEARANCE

Active SC clearance required.

ROLE OVERVIEW

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.

LEADERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE ACCOUNTABILITIES

• 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 escape constraints.
• 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.

ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN RESPONSIBILITIES

• 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.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

• 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.

Job Title: Azure Platform Lead

Location: London, UK

Job Type: Contract