Your new roleThe Lead Platform Engineer is a customer-focused, hands-on servant-leader responsible for building and evolving a core digital platform used by engineering teams.Success in this role is directly linked to enabling those teams through automation, scalability, and high reliability. A strong working knowledge of Microsoft Azure is essential.The role involves daily coding, technical leadership across orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, cloud services, observability, and security-working alongside site reliability, onboarding, architecture, and delivery functions. You''re expected to scale impact through others by upskilling team members, hiring where needed, and championing platform engineering practices. With an emphasis on lean structure and automation, the team consists of matrix-managed engineers with diverse skill sets.As a key engineering leader, you''ll contribute strategically and operationally to the platform''s success, ensuring it delivers resilient foundations for all digital services hosted on it.What you''ll need to succeed Advanced knowledge of Terraform syntax, modules, state management, workspaces, and backend configurationDeep understanding of Azure Terraform provider capabilities and limitationsExperience integrating Terraform into CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, etc.)Understanding of ARM templates and resource managementContainerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)Knowledge of core services (Virtual Networks, VMs, Storage, App