Cloud Engineering Lead (Azure) 6 month contract, scope to extend £600 - £625 P/D Inside IR35 Hybrid Active SC would be advantageous We are looking for a hands-on Cloud Engineering Lead with deep Microsoft Azure expertise to build, run and productise an enterprise Azure platform. You will turn approved architecture into policy-governed infrastructure delivered entirely through code and automated pipelines, make sure the platform is reliable and operationally ready, and treat product teams as customers, giving them a clear, low-friction route onto the platform. Key responsibilities - Platform engineering Lead design and build of Azure Landing Zones: management groups, subscription vending and hub-and-spoke networking. Own the provisioning pipelines and a reusable Terraform/Bicep module library built on Azure Verified Modules. Enforce governance as code (Azure Policy, RBAC/PIM, Defender for Cloud) and integrate ServiceNow to automate platform requests. Set engineering quality standards: code reviews, branching and release strategy, pipeline quality gates. Lead brownfield remediation of existing subscriptions and workloads onto platform standards. Reliability and operations Define platform SLOs and track service health through observability built on Azure Monitor / Log Analytics, integrated with Sentinel (Security Operations) and the NOC. Drive operational readiness and acceptance, with runbooks and documentation in place before handover to Cloud Run (BAU operations). Lead ..... full job details .....