Lead Platform Engineer

3 weeks ago

Manchester, United Kingdom McGregor Boyall Full time

My clients are building out a new cloud capability team within the organisation. They are late adopters to cloud and need an experienced Azure engineer to create the environment within which new cloud and digital projects can deliver at pace - setting technicaldirection, ensuring cloud related decisions are made quickly and are appropriate to technology, business and governance environment.

The role would be best suited to an engineer who comes from an Infrastructure background so has experience with servers, networks, storage and compute, who has moved into Azure cloud and has experience with modern cloud technologies such as IaC & CI/CD.

Why Join?
- Excellent salary + 20% bonus and exceptional pension contribution (18%)
- Opportunity to work on a huge greenfield project where you can put your own stamp on an organisation's cloud journey
- Plenty of opportunity to progress into a managerial position as the team grows. Plans are to grow to 5
- Fully remote working giving you the autonomy to manage your day & personal life
- Hugely collaborative teams with industry experts. Collaboration will be key to ensure a successful cloud adoption

The role:

- Overall Technical / Engineering Lead for Cloud
- Accountable for the engineering that underpins agreed Cloud Strategy and direction
- Liaising with Group Technology Strategy to inform cloud strategy, architectures and roadmaps
- Understanding requirements from across Group Technology and our business and ensuring cloud patterns and associated technical decisions support those requirements
- Ensure cloud patterns can be supported effectively by operations and platform teams.
- Create and manage the roadmap and backlog for pattern development
- Deliver cloud reference architectures to project teams and strategic third parties
- Engagement early with cloud and digital development projects providing definition, ideation and engineering support.
- Perform reviews against Well Architected Frameworks for proposed architectures and designs and regular assessments of deployed architectures against frameworks.

Skills required:

- Proven experience in a senior / lead role
- 5+ years within Azure Cloud
- Able to work with multiple key stakeholders and manage competing priorities.
- Proactive strategic leadership, demonstrable skills in the design, communication and delivery of Cloud technologies and frameworks.
- Ability to engage and communicate at all levels from Technical gurus to Executive Management
- Strategic vendor / supplier management

McGregor Boyall is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

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