Cloud Engineering Manager

Asda; Leeds; Híbrido; GBP 90 000 - 120 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Discretionary bonus

Pension up to 7% matched

Car allowance £5,700

15% discount in store

Wellbeing services access

Inclusion networks

Parental leave policies

Resumo da oferta

Asda is seeking an experienced Cloud Engineering Manager to lead the Cloud Platform Team in building and operating one of the UK’s largest Azure estates. The role blends people leadership, technical direction and delivery management with hands-on cloud engineering.

You will develop engineers, set priorities and standards, and drive platform, automation, security and cloud modernisation initiatives across the organisation.

Qualificações

• Experience leading cloud engineering teams in enterprise environments.

Responsabilidades

• Lead, coach and develop a team of cloud engineers.
• Set technical direction and engineering standards across the cloud platform estate.
• Prioritise and allocate work across the team while balancing strategic initiatives and technical debt.
• Remove delivery blockers and support engineers in delivering high-quality outcomes.
• Support recruitment, performance management and career development activities.
• Build and support Azure platform services and cloud infrastructure.
• Drive improvements to Azure Landing Zones, governance frameworks and security controls.
• Deliver and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Improve platform reliability, observability and operational efficiency.
• Partner with engineering teams and stakeholders to enable secure and scalable cloud solutions.

Conhecimentos

Azure expert

Cloud leadership

Terraform

Infrastructure as Code

GitHub & Azure DevOps

Azure Landing Zones

RBAC & PIM

Azure Networking

Security controls

Observability tooling

Ferramentas

Azure DevOps

GitHub

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Job Title

Cloud Engineering Manager

Location

Asda House

Employment Type

Full time

Contract Type

Permanent

Hours Per Week

37.5

Salary

Competitive salary plus benefits

Category

Infrastructure

Closing Date

4 November 2026

Asda is looking for an experienced Cloud Engineering Manager to join the Cloud Platform Team, leading a team of cloud engineers responsible for building, operating and evolving one of the UK's largest Azure estates.

This role combines people leading, technical direction and delivery management with hands‑on involvement in cloud engineering. You will be responsible for developing engineers, setting priorities and engineering standards, and ensuring the successful delivery of platform, automation, security and cloud modernisation initiatives across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop a team of cloud engineers, creating a high‑performing engineering culture.
• Set technical direction and engineering standards across the cloud platform estate.
• Prioritise and allocate work across the team, balancing strategic initiatives, operational demands and technical debt.
• Remove delivery blockers and support engineers in delivering high‑quality outcomes.
• Support recruitment, performance management and career development activities.
• Build and support Azure platform services and cloud infrastructure.
• Drive improvements to Azure Landing Zones, governance frameworks and security controls.
• Deliver and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Improve platform reliability, resilience, observability and operational efficiency.
• Partner with engineering teams and stakeholders across the organisation to enable secure and scalable cloud solutions.

Essential Skills

• Microsoft Azure (enterprise‑scale environments)
• Experience leading and managing cloud engineering teams
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
• GitHub and Azure DevOps
• Azure Landing Zones, Policy and Governance
• Microsoft Entra ID, RBAC and PIM
• Azure Networking (vWAN, ExpressRoute, DNS and Private Endpoints)
• Azure Firewall, WAF and Front Door
• Azure Monitor, Log Analytics and observability tooling

Desirable Skills

• Coaching, mentoring and developing engineers
• Experience supporting AI platforms, services and AI‑enabled workloads
• Azure Containers and container technologies
• Cloud cost optimisation and operational excellence practices
• Retail or large‑scale enterprise experience

About You

You are an experienced cloud engineering manager with strong Azure expertise and a proven track record of leading engineering teams within complex enterprise environments. You have a pragmatic approach to automation, governance and cloud operations, and are passionate about developing engineers and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

You can balance people leadership with technical credibility, setting clear direction while remaining engaged in the technology and supporting the team in solving complex engineering challenges. You build strong stakeholder relationships, manage competing priorities effectively and enable the delivery of secure, reliable and scalable cloud platform capabilities.

Everything you'll love

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

• Discretionary company bonus
• Company pension up to 7% matched
• Company Car allowance of £5,700
• 15% colleague discount in store and online
• Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
• Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
• Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves