Azure Lead Engineer

The Azure Lead Engineer owns the technical direction and engineering quality of Cloud Hub’s enterprise Azure platform. This is a hands‑on leadership role spanning Azure Landing Zones, governance, security, networking, automation, reliability and cost management. The role works across Engineering, Architecture, Security, Product and Operations to provide a secure, scalable and governed Azure platform for approved and documented exception use cases in alignment with enterprise architecture standards.

Our client is a large global enterprise operating across multiple markets, with a complex technology landscape and a strong focus on digital transformation and innovation. The organization is actively investing in modern cloud, data, and AI capabilities to enable scalable, secure, and highly automated solutions across its business.

• Platform strategy and technical leadership
  
  Own the Azure technical roadmap, reference architectures, standards and reusable implementation patterns.
• Lead architecture and design reviews; make pragmatic technical decisions and communicate trade-offs clearly.
• Mentor engineers, strengthen peer review and reduce dependency on individual subject‑matter experts.
• Landing Zones, governance and security
  
  Design, evolve and operate enterprise Azure Landing Zones, including management groups, subscriptions, identity, policy, shared services and workload guardrails.
• Implement policy‑driven governance, RBAC, privileged access, tagging, compliance monitoring and security‑by‑design controls.
• Partner with Security, Architecture and Compliance teams to remediate risks and maintain audit‑ready evidence.
• Automation and platform engineering
  
  Drive Infrastructure as Code and automated lifecycle management using approved enterprise tooling, Git and CI/CD pipelines.
• Build self‑service subscription and platform capabilities with clear product interfaces, documentation and operational ownership.
• Control configuration drift, improve repeatability and minimise manual operational work.
• Reliability, operations and optimisation
  
  Establish observability, operational readiness, backup/recovery and incident‑management standards.
• Lead complex troubleshooting, root‑cause analysis and engineering improvements arising from incidents and problems.
• Optimise resilience, performance and cost through capacity management, Fin Ops practices and measurable service outcomes.
• Delivery and stakeholder leadership
  
  Translate strategy into a prioritised backlog; identify dependencies, risks, owners and escalation paths.
• Coordinate delivery across squads and stakeholders while maintaining architecture, security and engineering quality.
• Represent Cloud Hub in Azure decisions and explain technical recommendations to both engineering and business audiences.

• Five or more years in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, Dev Ops or SRE, including at least three years of hands‑on Azure experience.
• Proven design and operation of enterprise, multi‑subscription Azure platforms and Landing Zones.
• Strong knowledge of management groups, Azure Policy, Microsoft Entra , RBAC/PIM, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics and cost controls.
• Strong Azure networking experience: hub‑and‑spoke or Virtual WAN, VNets, routing, DNS, NSGs, Private Endpoints, firewalls and Express Route/VPN.
• Production experience with IaC tools, Git‑based delivery, CI/CD and scripting such as Python or Power Shell.
• Demonstrated technical leadership, mentoring, stakeholder influence and delivery in a global enterprise environment.

• Microsoft Certified:
  Azure Solutions Architect Expert;
  Azure Administrator Associate or Azure Security Engineer Associate.
• Experience with multi‑cloud environments, platform‑product operating models, SRE practices and organisational change.

• Flexible work schedule.
• Fixed financial bonus issued upfront on a quarterly basis, covering the average market price of private medical care and sport card - B2B contract.
• Present on the occasion of birthday, wedding, child birth.
• E-learning accounts for Coursera, O'Relly, Udemy.
• Corporate language school.