Cloud Platform Engineering Lead

Discipline: IT & Technology
Job type: Permanent
Contact name: Luca
Contact email: luca@weareedenbrook.com
Job ref: J5786
Published: 2 days ago
We are currently partnering with a market-leading Lloyd’s Insurer to recruit a Cloud Platform Engineering Lead. This role focuses on platform engineering with end-to-end ownership of the cloud platform across architecture, automation and security. The role remains hands-on while providing senior technical leadership across IT and partnering closely with Architecture, Security and IT Operations. Key Responsibilities: • Own cloud platform architecture (primarily Azure with some AWS) ensuring security, scalability, resilience and alignment to enterprise standards and landing zone principles • Design and evolve shared platform capabilities including networking, identity, security, observability, backup and disaster recovery • Treat the cloud platform as a product with clear standards, roadmaps and continuous improvement • Remain hands-on building and evolving the platform using Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD and automation • Develop reusable patterns, configurations and modules for consistent platform use • Set and enforce engineering standards across cloud, automation and configuration management • Embed security by design aligned to standards such as NIST, ISO and GDPR • Own cloud security controls, policies and technical guardrails • Ensure high availability, resilience, backup and disaster recovery readiness • Act as a senior escalation point for cloud incidents and major outages • Optimise platform performance, availability and cost efficiency • Lead FinOps practices including cost management, budgeting and optimisation • Drive monitoring, alerting and observability while contributing to long term cloud strategy Skills & Experience: • 8+ years of hands‑on experience designing and operating cloud environments, primarily Azure (AWS experience beneficial). • Strong background in platform engineering, cloud architecture, and automation, not just infrastructure operations. • Proven experience building and owning cloud platforms using Infrastructure‑as‑Code, including the lifecycle management of terraform assets • Experience operating in regulated or security‑sensitive environments. Ideally the Insurance Market.