Azure Platform Lead & SRE: Hybrid, Strategy & Ownership

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

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.