Cloud Platform Manager

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

Cloud Platform Manager (Azure)
Location: Derbyshire (preferred) or London
Hybrid, 1 2 days a week in the office
Salary: £75,000 £85,000 + benefits

Amtis is partnering with a leading European business whose technology supports individuals across the continent. They are looking for a Cloud Platform / Infrastructure Manager to take their Azure estate to the next level, and to build the team that runs it.

The opportunity The organisation moved to Azure through a lift-and-shift migration. The next step is turning that estate into a secure, resilient, scalable and cost-conscious cloud platform built on cloud-native ways of working. Reporting to the Director of Infrastructure & Operations, you will lead an infrastructure team of 8+ and own the operation, governance and modernisation of the Azure platform. This is a genuine transformation role. You will balance modernisation with the operational stability that patient-facing services depend on.

What you will be doing

• Run a reliable platform: own the availability, performance and resilience of Azure services, including monitoring, incident and problem management, backup, DR and resilience testing.
• Modernise: move suitable lifted-and-shifted workloads towards PaaS, serverless and containers where there is a clear operational, security or business benefit.
• Engineer for scale: build landing zone standards, reusable Infrastructure as Code patterns and deployment pipelines, making Terraform, GitOps and automation-first delivery the norm.
• Govern and secure: own Azure governance (management groups, policy-as-code, tagging, access and guardrails) and work with Security to meet zero trust and healthcare regulatory requirements.
• Drive cost-aware engineering: partner with FinOps and Finance on consumption insight, right-sizing, reservations and savings plans.
• Lead and develop the team: coach a team of 8+ through the shift to cloud-native operations with learning plans, hands-on labs and certification roadmaps, and manage cloud suppliers.

What you will bring

• 5+ years of hands-on cloud infrastructure experience with deep Azure expertise, including at least 2 years leading cloud transformation (not just migration).
• Strong Infrastructure as Code skills (Terraform preferred, or Bicep/ARM), Azure DevOps / CI/CD pipeline design, and scripting in PowerShell or Python.
• Broad Azure knowledge across PaaS, AKS and containers, networking (vWAN, Private Endpoints, Front Door, Application Gateway) and identity and security (Entra ID, Key Vault, Defender for Cloud).
• Cloud-native monitoring and observability (Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics) and a grounding in DevOps / SRE practices.
• Experience supporting cloud cost optimisation and governance alongside Finance, Procurement or a FinOps function.
• Proven people leadership. You are a change agent with a teacher mindset who can make cloud concepts click for traditional IT teams and present confidently to stakeholders.
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) or equivalent experience.

Desirable AZ-400, AZ-500, FinOps Certified Practitioner, CKA/CKAD or Terraform Associate certifications; experience in healthcare or another regulated industry (NHS DSP Toolkit, GDPR); multi-cloud (AWS/GCP) exposure.

Why apply?

• A real transformation mandate: shaping the platform, not just keeping the lights on.
• Lead and grow a team of 8+ engineers.
• Work that matters, with technology that directly supports the people the business stand for.
• Hybrid working with just 1 2 days a week in the office.