Lead Platform Engineer - Azure, Terraform & CI/CD

Dex; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Dex partners with a leading enterprise to architect and operate a scalable Azure footprint across AKS, Terraform, and Dockerised services. You will design and implement CI/CD pipelines shipping backend, frontend, and data, with a focus on developer experience.

You will set technical direction and guardrails for infrastructure, observability, and cost management, ensuring readiness for SOC 2 and ISO 27001 audits.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in platform, infrastructure, or DevOps focused on technical direction.
• Experience designing Terraform modules and CI/CD pipelines used by other engineers.
• End-to-end ownership of observability (logging, metrics, tracing, alerting).
• Comfort with cloud networking (VPCs, DNS, load balancers, VPNs, firewalls) and production databases.
• Strong Python or Bash for automation tasks.

Responsibilities

• Architecting and operating a complex Azure footprint, including AKS, Terraform, and Dockerised services.
• Designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines that ship backend, frontend, and data, with a focus on developer experience.
• Setting technical direction and guardrails for infrastructure, including Terraform modules and observability practices.
• Owning end-to-end observability and driving incident response.
• Preparing the cloud estate for SOC 2 and ISO 27001 audits and managing cloud cost at scale.

Skills

Platform/DevOps experience

Observability ownership

Cloud networking

Python or Bash automation

Technical leadership

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

AKS

Dockerised services

GitHub Actions

Job description

Dex partners with a leading enterprise to architect and operate a scalable Azure footprint across AKS, Terraform, and Dockerised services. You will design and implement CI/CD pipelines shipping backend, frontend, and data, with a focus on developer experience.

You will set technical direction and guardrails for infrastructure, observability, and cost management, ensuring readiness for SOC 2 and ISO 27001 audits.