Lead Cloud Platform Engineer (Azure) | Manchester Hybrid
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Lead Cloud Platform Engineer (Azure)
Manchester Hybrid Working
The Opportunity
I'm recruiting for a hands-on Lead Cloud Platform Engineer to join a highly advanced underwriting technology team working on a cloud-native platform used across major US property portfolios and now scaling globally. This is a modern engineering environment built around Azure-native services, containerisation, and ML-driven pricing models, with significant future investment and a global roadmap.
You'll lead technical delivery, elevate engineering standards, and drive performance, scalability, and reliability across a platform built end-to-end in Typescript, NodeJS, and Azure.
This role blends hands-on engineering with senior-level technical leadership and genuine influence across international teams.
What You'll Be Doing
- Leading technical delivery and engineering quality across a high-visibility, cloud-native underwriting platform.
- Designing, implementing, and optimising solutions in Azure, including Containers, AKS, App Services, and Azure Functions.
- Improving platform performance, scalability, observability, and reliability.
- Overseeing code reviews, production releases, development standards, and architectural decision-making.
- Partnering with Product Owner and cross-functional teams
- Introducing engineering discipline to an area transitioning from business-owned to IT-led.
Tech Stack & Skills
Must have:
- Advanced hands-on experience with Typescript and NodeJS
- Azure Cloud Native engineering (AKS, Containers, App Services, Functions)
- Strong understanding of Azure compute, networking, storage & security
- Proven background scaling and optimising cloud platforms
- Ability to assess code and architecture verbally
- Strong technical leadership, stakeholder management & communication