Technical Lead - Azure Engineering

Berkeley Square IT; Leeds; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading IT services company is looking for an experienced Technical Lead specializing in Azure Platform Engineering. The successful candidate will be instrumental in optimizing cloud infrastructure for data analytics and AI/ML teams, ensuring scalability and performance while managing resources effectively. This is an urgent contract role with a competitive market rate outside IR35.

Qualifications

• Expertise in Azure Platform Engineering and Infrastructure Automation.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform and Azure DevOps.
• Desirable to have relevant Azure certifications.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical implementation of cloud-based data platforms.
• Build and optimise the Azure cloud platform for data teams.
• Automate deployments and manage large-scale cloud resources.

Skills

Infrastructure Automation

Cloud Resource Optimisation

Azure DevOps

Education

Azure certifications

Tools

Terraform

Azure

Job description

Fantastic contract opportunity for an experienced Azure technical lead. My client are seeking a Technical Lead with a focus on Azure Platform Engineering to support the infrastructure layer for their data analytics and AI/ML environments. The successful candidate will lead the technical implementation of cloud-based data platforms while ensuring the scalability, performance, and security of my clients infrastructure.

This is a contract role where your main responsibilities will focus on building and optimising the Azure cloud platform to enable their data teams (data engineers, AI/ML experts) to efficiently execute their workflows. Hands-on experience with Terraform, Azure DevOps, and Azure cloud infrastructure is essential, as you will be tasked with automating deployments and managing large-scale cloud resources.

Key responsibilities include the following:

• Infrastructure as Code

In order to be a good match for this contract role you must have experience of the following:

Expertise in Azure Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Automation (Terraform), Azure DevOps, Cloud Resource Optimisation: In additional, Azure certifications will be desirable.

This is an immediate requirement, please present your profile for review and consideration. In return, my client is offering up a competitive market rate outside IR35, an initial 3 month contract with scope to extend.