Azure Tech Lead
Role overview: We are seeking a senior Azure Tech Lead who can design, implement and operate secure cloud platforms while supporting data-intensive workloads. The role will bridge cloud engineering and data platform teams, ensuring that Azure foundations, connectivity, automation and operational controls enable reliable analytics and AI services.
Key responsibilities:
- Own the technical design and operational health of Azure platform services, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, security and governance standard.
- Provision repeatable environments through infrastructure as code and automated deployment pipelines.
- Engineer platform foundations for Data Lake Storage, Fabric, Data Factory, Databricks, Azure SQL and related services.
- Apply private connectivity, managed identities, secrets management, encryption, backup and disaster-recovery patterns.
- Monitor reliability, performance, capacity and cost; lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
- Lead technical delivery of cloud platform workstreams, managing technical risks, dependencies, readiness activities and successful transition into operations
- Define and enforce cloud engineering standards, automation practices and operational controls to ensure consistency, cost optimisation, reliability and maintainability across environments
- Provide technical leadership and coaching to engineers while collaborating with architects, security teams, application teams and client stakeholders to align cloud-platform capabilities with business requirements
Qualifications, skills and experience:
- Strong hands-on Azure engineering experience across networking, compute, storage, identity and governance.
- Experience with Terraform or Bicep, Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, and scripting with PowerShell or Python.
- Working knowledge of Azure data services and the non-functional needs of analytical platforms.
- Strong understanding of enterprise security architecture, resilience engineering, observability, governance and cloud financial management.
- Demonstrated experience leading cloud engineering teams or workstreams, influencing stakeholders and managing technical delivery in enterprise environments
- AZ-305 Certification
Desirable: Azure Landing Zones, Azure Networking, Azure Security, FinOps, Infrastructure-as-Code, Platform Engineering Methodologies, Azure Kubernetes Service, Microsoft AI Resources, GitHub enterprise, Purview and relevant Azure Architect certifications
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