Azure Platform Lead / Cloud SRE

Synapri; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Synapri is seeking an Azure Platform Lead / Lead Cloud SRE to own and shape the organization’s Azure environment. The role blends hands-on engineering with strategic leadership, governance, and cross‑team collaboration.

Key focus areas include platform ownership, reliability, disaster recovery and cost optimisation, with Terraform/IaC and AKS/Kubernetes underpinning the implementation. Hybrid work setup requires 2 days onsite.

Qualifications

• Extensive Azure engineering experience with leadership.
• Terraform / IaC experience and Kubernetes (AKS).
• Ability to set standards, governance and cost optimisation.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication.

Responsibilities

• Own Azure platform strategy and roadmap.
• Ensure reliability, resilience and disaster recovery.
• Implement monitoring and observability across the platform.
• Lead cloud governance and cost optimisation initiatives.
• Mentor and develop engineering capability.

Job description

Azure Platform Lead / Lead Cloud SRE

£75k-£85k | Hybrid, 2 days onsite

We’re hiring for an established financially regulated business looking for an experienced Azure professional to take technical ownership of its cloud platform.

This isn’t a purely hands‑on SRE role. We’re looking for someone who combines strong Azure engineering experience with technical leadership, platform ownership and senior stakeholder capability.

You’ll play a key role in shaping how the Azure environment develops, setting standards and ensuring the platform is reliable, resilient, secure and cost-effective.

Key areas of responsibility include:

• Azure platform ownership & strategy


• Reliability, resilience & disaster recovery


• Terraform / Infrastructure as Code


• Monitoring & observability


• AKS / Kubernetes


• Cloud governance & cost optimisation


• Technical standards & best practice


• Mentoring and developing engineering capability

Initially, you’ll remain close to the technology, getting under the hood of the existing Azure environment and identifying opportunities for improvement.

As the environment and wider team mature, the role will evolve towards greater platform leadership, governance and strategic ownership.

This could suit an Azure Platform Lead, Principal Cloud Engineer, Lead SRE, Cloud Operations Lead or Cloud Architect who still enjoys being close to the technology but wants greater ownership and influence.