Cloud Platform Engineering Lead
Location Greater London, South East, England
Salary £90000 - £110000 per day
Expiry Date June 30, 2026
Job Ref BH-8822
No of days in the office 3
Cloud Platform Engineering Lead – Azure / Platform Ownership / IaC
A leading London Market Insurance organisation is seeking an experienced Cloud Platform Engineering Lead to take full ownership of its cloud platform strategy and engineering capability. This is a newly created, high‑impact position within a modern, forward‑thinking technology environment, offering the autonomy to shape cloud best practice and drive platform excellence across the organisation.
You’ll work closely with the Enterprise Architect, senior technology stakeholders, and cross‑functional engineering teams to design, build, and evolve a secure, scalable, and automated Azure cloud estate. This is a hands‑on technical leadership role — not people management — ideal for someone who thrives on ownership, architectural thinking, and deep technical problem‑solving.
You’ll be a great fit for this role if:
This is a rare opportunity to take end‑to‑end ownership of a critical cloud domain, influence engineering standards, and help shape the future of cloud capability within a growing and ambitious organisation.
This is a permanent opportunity paying £90k–£110k Excellent Bonus requiring 3 days a week onsite in central London.
Cloud Platform Engineering Lead – Azure / Platform Ownership / IaC
A leading London Market Insurance organisation is seeking an experienced Cloud Platform Engineering Lead to take full ownership of its cloud platform strategy and engineering capability. This is a newly created, high‑impact position within a modern, forward‑thinking technology environment, offering the autonomy to shape cloud best practice and drive platform excellence across the organisation.
You’ll work closely with the Enterprise Architect, senior technology stakeholders, and cross‑functional engineering teams to design, build, and evolve a secure, scalable, and automated Azure cloud estate. This is a hands‑on technical leadership role — not people management — ideal for someone who thrives on ownership, architectural thinking, and deep technical problem‑solving.
You’ll be a great fit for this role if:
- You have extensive experience designing and operating cloud environments, ideally within the insurance sector
- You bring years of hands‑on cloud engineering expertise, primarily across Azure
- You’ve built and owned cloud platforms using Infrastructure‑as‑Code, including lifecycle management of Terraform or similar tooling
- You have a strong background in platform engineering, cloud architecture, automation, and modern DevOps practices
- You have deep technical understanding
This is a rare opportunity to take end‑to‑end ownership of a critical cloud domain, influence engineering standards, and help shape the future of cloud capability within a growing and ambitious organisation.
This is a permanent opportunity paying £90k–£110k Excellent Bonus requiring 3 days a week onsite in central London.
Cloud Platform Engineering Lead – Azure / Platform Ownership / IaC
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