Azure Tech Lead

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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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