Azure Platform Lead: Transformation & Governance

Amtis Professional Ltd; Stafford; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Job summary

You will manage an 8+ person infrastructure team, own platform governance, run incident and disaster recovery, and partner with FinOps for optimisation, delivering cloud-native, scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in cloud infrastructure with Azure, including 2+ years leading transformation.
• Proficient with Terraform (or Bicep/ARM) and Azure DevOps CI/CD.
• Strong scripting in PowerShell or Python.
• Experience across PaaS, AKS, networking and security in Azure.
• Proven people leadership and stakeholder communication.
• AZ-305 or equivalent certification; desirables AZ-400/AZ-500 or Terraform Associate.

Responsibilities

• Run a reliable platform: own availability, performance and resilience of Azure services, including monitoring, incidents, backups and DR.
• Modernise: move workloads to PaaS, serverless and containers where beneficial.
• Engineer for scale: build landing zone standards, IaC patterns and pipelines; Terraform, GitOps and automation-first delivery.
• Govern and secure: own Azure governance and align with zero trust and healthcare regulatory requirements.
• Drive cost-aware engineering: partner with FinOps for consumption insight and reservations.
• Lead and develop the team: coach 8+ engineers through cloud-native shift and manage cloud suppliers.

Skills

Azure

Terraform

PowerShell

Python

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

AKS

Containers

Governance & security

FinOps

Leadership

AZ-305

Tools

Terraform

Bicep/ARM

Job description

You will manage an 8+ person infrastructure team, own platform governance, run incident and disaster recovery, and partner with FinOps for optimisation, delivering cloud-native, scalable solutions.