As a Lead Azure Cloud Engineer you will play a pivotal role in our Data & Development Services capability, working closely with our data and software engineers to create robust, secure, scalable solutions. Leveraging your technical skills across the Azure platform, you will design, build, and optimise solutions for our customers, owning our approach to implementing networking, CI/CD, and security functionality. Designing and implementing our customers’ Azure infrastructure, including provisioning, configuration, performance monitoring, policy governance and security. Ensuring cloud infrastructure meets performance, security, and other non-functional requirements. Building out our internal Azure sandbox tenant to enable proofs of concept and hosting of our industry accelerators and demonstrators. Providing Azure technical expertise and guidance to our data engineers and 365 engineers. Instantiating Azure services, with a focus on data (e.g. Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, Azure Data Lake, Azure SQL, Azure Databricks, Azure Machine Learning) Designing network architecture for client’s Azure tenants Creating VNets and Private Endpoints Setting up performance monitoring and trouble-shooting issues Creating subscriptions with appropriate cost-control measures in place Designing and building CI/CD pipelines and version control Building and maintaining our internal tooling and processes Expertise in cloud infrastructure and networking