Role Summary

The Lead Azure Cloud Engineer owns the design, automation, and operational health of the Azure cloud platform. Acting as the technical anchor for the CloudOps function, this person sets engineering standards, drives infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD maturity, and leads a team of cloud/DevOps engineers while remaining hands-on across architecture, automation, and reliability.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure

Design, provision, and evolve Azure landing zones, resource hierarchies, networking (VNets, NSGs, private endpoints), and identity boundaries.
Lead cloud migration and modernization workstreams — rehost/replatform/refactor decisions, target-state architecture, and cutover planning.
Own core platform services (AKS, App Services, Functions, Azure SQL, storage tiers such as ADLS Gen 2, Event Hub, Key Vault) and their integration patterns.
Define reference architectures and guardrails that downstream teams build against.

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

Establish and enforce IaC standards using Terraform and/or Bicep/ARM,



including module libraries, versioning, and state management.
Automate environment provisioning end to end so environments are reproducible, disposable, and drift-free.
Build automation for routine operational tasks (scaling, backups, patching, secrets rotation) to reduce manual toil.

CI/CD & Release Engineering

Own the CI/CD strategy and pipelines (Azure DevOps / Azure Pipelines or GitHub Actions), including build, test, artifact management, and multi-stage deployments.
Implement branching and release strategy (e.g., Git Flow / trunk-based) with quality gates, approvals, and automated rollback.
Integrate automated testing and code-quality gates into the pipeline so releases are protected and repeatable.

Security, Compliance & Governance

Implement Azure RBAC, least-privilege access, and identity governance (Entra ID, managed identities, PIM).
Embed security into the pipeline — SAST/DAST scanning, dependenc

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