Azure Cloud Engineering Manager

At MHR, our employees are central to our success and play a key role in helping customers achieve sustainable high performance. With a team of over 900 professionals, we work to make things flow smoothly, whether it's for large organisations or individual employees. As businesses face rapid changes in the world of work, our team is here to help them adapt and thrive.

By focusing on the core needs of efficiency, productivity, growth, and impact, our employees use their expertise to deliver real solutions through our People and Finance platform. This system, which covers finance, HR, payroll, and learning, helps businesses run more smoothly and make better decisions in real time.

With over 40 years of experience behind us, MHR’s track record as a high-performance organisation is built on clear goals, a shared vision, and strong communication - all of which we pass on to our customers.

MHR is more than just a place to work; it’s a platform for empowerment. Joining us means bringing innovation, technology, and teamwork seamlessly removes obstacles, enhances your skills, and allow you to focus on what’s most important to you- work that matters.

With us, you’ll grow, find your flow, and make a lasting difference in your career, your team, and your impact.

Your Career

As an Engineering Manager (Platform) at MHR, you’ll play a key role in shaping the future of our innovative products while developing your leadership skills. This role offers a fulfilling and stimulating opportunity to lead high-performing teams and deliver cutting-edge solutions that impact the world of work. By leveraging your technical expertise, you’ll ensure the success of our Cloud Engineers and People First product, positioning yourself for long-term success and leadership growth.

Your Team

You’ll be joining MHR’s highly skilled Agile Product Teams, dedicated to delivering exceptional results with a focus on quality and agility. Reporting to the Head of Architecture, you will manage and develop Cloud Engineers, cultivating a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continual improvement. While the work is challenging, our teams celebrate success and work together to stay on the leading edge of technology and best practices.

Your Impact

The Cloud Platform Engineering Manager is responsible for delivering the platform roadmap and architecture, including the implementation of tooling, processes and automation to support efficient platform delivery. You will lead, develop and manage a high-performing, collaborative Cloud Platform team, ensuring the reliability, scalability and performance of all customer-facing cloud services, providing clear technical direction, support and career development.

In More Detail

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll:

• Lead and manage a team of Cloud Engineers, offering guidance, mentoring, and performance reviews.
• Collaborate with senior management, architects, and engineering teams to align Cloud Platform initiatives with business goals.
• Drive the delivery of cloud infrastructure proof-of-concepts, overseeing their transition to full-scale deployment.
• Promote Agile development practices and continuous delivery.
• Address challenges, implement solutions, and strive to enhance productivity and efficiency.
• Foster a generative culture where learning and innovation thrive.

What you’ll bring to the role and MHR

• Proven ability to lead and manage a team of Cloud Engineers
• Skilled in working with senior management, architecture teams, and stakeholders to align cloud platform initiatives with broader organisational and technical goals.
• Experience in identifying and resolving team challenges, implementing solutions that improve efficiency and productivity, and fostering a collaborative, learning-focused culture.
• Strong background in administrating and engineering cloud platforms, with expertise in setting best practices for CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Effective communicator with the ability to provide clear updates on infrastructure progress and challenges and manage vendor relationships for escalated support and change management.
• Ability to collaborate with software engineering teams to understand and advise on infrastructure requirements that support scalable and secure solutions.

Benefits to support you personally and professionally

Alongside the opportunity to work with an incredible team and express your individuality, we offer a range of personalised benefits including:

• Access to over 60 internal training courses, professional qualifications, and cross-departmental mentoring and coaching programs
• 24/7 access to a GP through Help at Hand for you and your family, confidential mental health support, and paid sick leave
• Ability to purchase or sell additional holiday days beyond 25 days and bank holidays
• Enhanced Family leave
• My MHRewards offering discounts at over 900 retailers
• Monthly employee recognition program and departmental awards
• Referral bonus scheme of up to £2,000
• Employee-led social events such as running clubs, football teams, book clubs, and bake-offs
• On-site subsidised restaurants offering a variety of fresh meals daily
• Opt-in benefits schemes such as private medical insurance and dental coverage

We value the well-being, financial stability, and inclusivity of our employees, and strive to provide a supportive working environment.

At MHR, we’re completely committed to creating a supportive and inclusive workplace where all voices are heard, and everyone feels valued and supported.

Whatever your background, abilities and experiences, if you’re excited by this role we want to hear from you. If you require assistance for an interview, please let us know and we’ll make sure your needs are met when you arrive.