Azure Platform Manager

Socium Recruitment Limited; Ringway; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Socium Recruitment Limited is seeking a Platform Manager to own the Azure platform, leading a small team of Platform & DevOps engineers in Manchester on a hybrid basis. The role focuses on setting technical direction, infrastructure as code, secure CI/CD, and cost optimization.

The successful candidate will drive reliability, performance, and AI-assisted incident investigations while guiding engineers with practical, hands-on leadership.

Qualifications

• Strong Azure architecture and hands-on platform engineering.
• IaC, automation and secure CI/CD.
• Experience improving reliability, performance and cloud costs.
• Able to provide practical technical guidance to peers.

Responsibilities

• Own the platform's direction and architectural roadmap.
• Lead a small expert Platform & DevOps team.
• Improve API health, detect performance issues early, and automate recurring fixes.

Skills

Azure platform ownership

IaC & CI/CD

Performance & cost optimization

Technical guidance for engineers

Tools

Azure DevOps

Entra ID

Key Vault

Job description

Platform Manager | Azure | £80-90k | Manchester - Hybrid

You're already making the big technical calls. How much say do you have over what happens next?

This position gives you ownership of an established Azure platform, a small expert team of Platform & DevOps engineers to lead.

You'll set the technical direction and build alongside them. Architecture, infrastructure as code, performance and cloud spend are all yours to get into.

A big part of the work is improving how the platform runs: understanding API health, catching performance issues early and using AI to investigate incidents and automate recurring fixes.

What we need:

• Strong Azure architecture and hands-on platform engineering.
• IaC, automation and secure CI/CD.
• Experience improving reliability, performance and cloud costs.
• Someone engineers can turn to for practical technical guidance.

Azure, Entra ID, Key Vault and Azure DevOps underpin the environment. Practical experience with AI-led operations would be useful.

What you get:

£80-90k, ownership of the platform's direction and the scope to put your decisions into production.

Could suit a Lead or Principal Platform Engineer ready to take responsibility for the function, or a hands-on Platform Manager