Lead Cloud Platform Engineer

A leading Financial Services company within it's space, are looking for a Lead Platform Engineer (Azure) to take ownership of the health and development of their cloud platform engineering discipline. As the Lead Platform Engineer, you will play a key role in shaping the infrastructure strategy for high-performance, high-availability applications. You will be responsible for ensuring best practices, standards, and policies are followed, driving continuous improvement and automation. This role would be ideal for someone who has a good level of experience working as an Azure specialist, who can lead and manage a high performing but small Cloud Platform Engineering team, not only operationally (Holidays, sickness, performance management, training & development etc) but create excellence from a technical perspective. Ensure the stability, performance, and ongoing improvement of the cloud platform. Lead and manage the Platform Engineers, ensuring professional development and performance management. Champion and implement the use of automation, tooling, and best practices to reduce manual tasks (TOIL). Ensure cloud infrastructure operates within cost parameters with appropriate monitoring and alerting in place. Support the organisation’s cloud migration journey by providing the necessary skills and training to the platform engineering team. Financial Responsibilities ~ Contribute to budgeting, forecasting, and financial management of platform engineering capacity, cloud platform operations, and ongoing improvements. Extensive knowledge of cloud networking, security, and Azure-specific services (Azure AD, Landing Zones, service principles). ~ Hands-on experience with monitoring, alerting tools, and CI/CD practices. ~ Line management experience and a proven ability to mentor and grow a team. ~ Experience working in an agile/DevOps environment, ideally within financial services or a regulated industry. ~Commercial Focus: Understanding of key financial drivers and how to balance them with customer needs. Risk Awareness: Familiarity with regulatory requirements and best practices to ensure platform security and compliance. This is an exciting opportunity to take a leadership role in a key area of a growing and forward-thinking Financial Services company. You will have the opportunity to shape the future of the cloud platform, lead an expert team, and contribute to meaningful business transformation.