Lead Azure Engineer

Job Title:

Azure Engineer

Job Description This role leads the design and delivery of cloud-native, full stack products on Microsoft Azure, running on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). You will be hands-on across the stack while setting technical direction, strengthening engineering standards, and ensuring solutions are secure, resilient, observable, and straightforward to operate in production.

Responsibilities
Lead full stack delivery across React (Type Script) front-end applications and Java/Python back-end services, including microservices and APIs.
Own cloud-native solution design for AKS-based platforms, defining service boundaries, resilience patterns, scaling approaches, deployment strategies, and operational readiness.
Design, build, and operate back-end services using Java (Spring Boot) and/or Python (FastAPI/Flask), covering API design with OpenAPI, performance optimisation, and security controls.
Develop modern user interfaces with React, focusing on accessible design, reusable components, and efficient state management.
Design and maintain Kubernetes deployments on AKS, including manifests, ingress configuration, autoscaling, configuration and secrets management, service-to-service communication, and rollout/rollback patterns.
Implement and maintain Dev Sec Ops  practices using Azure Dev Ops, building CI/CD pipelines with automated quality gates such as unit and integration tests, SAST/DAST where applicable, and dependency scanning.
Drive observability and production excellence by implementing logging, metrics, and tracing, creating actionable alerts, defining SLOs and SLIs, and leading incident response and post-incident improvement activities.
Embed security by design through secure coding practices, threat modelling, role-based access control and least privilege, secrets management including Key Vault integration, and modern identity patterns using OAuth2 and OIDC.
Coach and uplift engineers across the stack by leading code and design reviews, mentoring, driving consistent standards, and actively reducing technical debt.
Collaborate closely with product, architecture, UX, QA, and platform teams to plan delivery, manage risk, and ensure successful outcomes.
Set clear technical direction, making well-reasoned trade-offs between speed and sustainability.
Build an inclusive engineering culture where diverse viewpoints are welcomed and used to improve outcomes.
Take accountability for delivery and production stability, focusing on root causes rather than temporary workarounds.
Maintain delivery momentum by removing blockers, simplifying complex processes, automating where possible, and helping the team ship high-quality software.

Essential Skills
Significant experience in Senior Lead or Lead Engineer roles delivering and operating production systems.
Strong hands-on engineering background in Java, including Spring Boot, REST APIs, testing strategies, and performance tuning.
Strong hands-on experience with Python for service development and automation, preferably using FastAPI or Flask.
Proven experience building and maintaining front-end applications with React, ideally using Type Script, modern hooks, and robust front-end testing approaches.
Demonstrable experience running workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), with solid understanding of Kubernetes fundamentals such as deployments, services, ingress, configmaps, secrets, and horizontal pod autoscaling (HPA).
Practical experience with containerisation using Docker and packaging and deployment of containerised workloads.
experience designing and executing release strategies, including blue/green deployments, canary releases, rolling upgrades, and rollback planning.
Strong experience with Azure Dev Ops, including CI/CD pipeline design and implementation for build, test, and deploy stages, approvals, and environment management.
Good understanding of repository hygiene, branching strategies, and maintaining high-quality pull requests.
Solid understanding of security, reliability, and operability in a regulated or enterprise environment.
experience applying Dev Sec Ops  practices including SAST and DAST, and dependency scanning within CI/CD pipelines.
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