Lead Platform Engineer

Salary: £75,000 - 75,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong experience managing Azure cloud infrastructure
• Experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
• Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes workloads
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps
• Experience with cloud migration and separation projects across Azure and GCP
• Strong knowledge of disaster recovery and business continuity practices
• Experience improving monitoring, alerting, and observability
• Experience managing cloud security, identity, secrets, and certificates
• Ability to provide technical guidance on Azure architecture and platform engineering
• Experience troubleshooting complex infrastructure issues and acting as a senior escalation point

Responsibilities:

• Own and manage our Azure cloud estate, ensuring security, reliability, and cost efficiency
• Lead the adoption of Terraform and Infrastructure as Code, including bringing existing infrastructure under management
• Own and operate Kubernetes workloads, including deployments, ingress, scaling, upgrades, troubleshooting, and day-to-day platform operations
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps
• Support cloud migration and separation projects across Azure and GCP
• Design, automate, and test disaster recovery and business continuity solutions
• Improve monitoring, alerting, and observability across our platform
• Manage cloud security, identity, secrets, and certificates
• Provide technical guidance on Azure architecture and platform engineering
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues and act as a senior technical escalation point
• Work closely with development and technology teams to improve platform reliability and developer experience

Technologies:

• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• GCP
• Support
• Kubernetes
• Security
• Terraform
• API

More:

We are partnering with an established and growing data business based in Nottingham to find a talented Lead Platform Engineer to take ownership of our cloud infrastructure and help shape the next stage of our platform. This is a hybrid role with a minimum of one day per week in our Nottingham office. It offers genuine ownership and influence, with the opportunity to work across Azure, GCP, and modern data platforms while helping us improve DevOps standards, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, monitoring, disaster recovery, and platform engineering practices. We offer a salary of £65,000-£75,000, private healthcare after probation, a charity donation scheme, a work-from-anywhere week, regular team events, and social activities.

last updated 39 week of 2026