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.

• 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

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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