Azure Platform Lead

Project overview

Description:

SECURITY CLEARANCE

Active SC clearance required.

ROLE OVERVIEW

We are seeking an experienced Azure Platform

Engineering Lead to provide technical leadership for a high-performing Agile

delivery team responsible for designing, building, automating and supporting

secure cloud infrastructure within Microsoft Azure.

LEADERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE ACCOUNTABILITIES

Provide day-to-day technical leadership and

direction, assigning work according to priorities, capabilities, dependencies

and the project plan.

Plan platform engineering activity across

sprints and delivery increments; ensure the backlog is technically ready,

sequenced and aligned to milestones.

Direct sprint planning, refinement,

delivery, review and retrospectives; remove blockers and escalate constraints.

Review and approve work against acceptance

criteria, engineering standards, security controls and documentation

requirements.

Maintain platform engineering items in the

RAID log with owners, impacts, mitigations, target dates and escalation routes.

Support the project plan with estimates,

sequencing, dependencies, progress updates and forecasts.

Record material technical and delivery

decisions in the decision log.

Provide governance reporting on delivery

status, quality, risks, dependencies, decisions and actions.

ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN RESPONSIBILITIES

Liaise with Architecture to understand,

challenge where appropriate, and implement the approved HLD.

Keep solutions traceable to the HLD,

security principles and project standards.

Produce, coordinate and approve LLDs

covering implementation, interfaces, networking, access controls, deployment,

monitoring, support and operations.

Identify design gaps, ambiguities or

deviations early and obtain approval before implementation.

Capture architecture decisions, exceptions

and deviations in logs, plans and technical documentation.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

Strong Azure platform experience :

Databricks, Azure Functions, IAM/RBAC, Storage Accounts, Networking, Virtual

Machines, Key Vault, Monitoring and Alerting.

Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.

Azure DevOps Pipelines and CI/CD

implementation.

Azure DevOps Repos/Git and branching

strategies.

Docker and Docker Compose.

Security and vulnerability scanning using

Trivy or similar.

Bash and/or Python Scripting and

automation.

Azure networking: VNets, NSGs, Private

Endpoints and DNS.

Monitoring and troubleshooting Azure

environments.

experience in highly regulated/secure

environments, including solutions without Internet access.

Agile/Scrum delivery experience .

Fluent written and spoken English.

Job Title: Azure Platform Lead

Project details

London, UK

Job Type: Contract

Trading as TEKsystems. Allegis Group Limited, Bracknell, RG12 1RT, United Kingdom. No. 2876353. Allegis Group Limited operates as an Employment Business and Employment Agency as set out in the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003. TEKsystems is a company within the Allegis Group network of companies (collectively referred to as "Allegis Group"). Aerotek, Aston Carter, EASi, Talentis Solutions, TEKsystems, Stamford Consultants and The Stamford Group are Allegis Group brands.

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• Start: 2026-10-23
• Location: London, GB-ENG, UK, GB