About The Role
A senior leadership role owning the strategy, reliability, and evolution of our entire Azure estate — infrastructure, networking, cloud security, budget management, and platform engineering. You will report to the Director of Technology, manage a team of Cloud Engineers, and own the platform underpinning our consumer‑facing products, data platform, and internal tooling. The estate runs a hub‑and‑spoke landing zone, AKS‑hosted microservices, event‑driven architectures, and a growing Databricks data platform, and we’re migrating off a legacy VM estate toward cloud‑native services. You will balance perfection against expediency to meet business needs, embedding yourself across technology, product, and commercial — setting expectations, building trust, and striking the right balance between short‑ and long‑term goals.
Strategy & Leadership
Define and own a 3–5 year cloud strategy for Cazoo across infrastructure, networking, security, and platform engineering.
Drive migration from the legacy VM estate to a cloud‑native platform (AKS, Azure Functions, managed services).
Design and maintain the Azure Landing Zone — hub‑and‑spoke topology, subscription management, and governance policies.
Partner with Product, Commercial, and Engineering leadership so cloud accelerates business outcomes; represent Cloud & Security on the Technology Management Team, shaping strategy, culture, and ways of working.
Manage cloud budgets, drive FinOps, and oversee third‑party vendor relationships.
Drive adoption of AI‑assisted engineering, automation, and self‑service platform capabilities that improve developer productivity and operational efficiency.
Platform & Infrastructure
Deep expertise designing and operating secure Azure networking architectures, including hybrid connectivity, segmentation, routing, ingress and identity‑aware access patterns.
Ensure secure, scalable operation across AKS, Azure Functions, and remaining VM workloads.
Own infrastructure‑as‑code with Terraform and Helm, ensuring consistency and repeatability across environments.
Champion DevSecOps and security‑by‑design with InfoSec, enforcing Zero Trust, compliance, and threat mitigation.
Maintain observability (Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty) and operational excellence through incident management, on‑call, and continuous reliability improvement.
People & Culture
Lead, mentor, and grow a high‑performing Cloud team, fostering an engineering culture of feedback, continuous learning, and technical excellence.
Give feedback, recognise great work, and support career development; own and improve team engagement scores.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship across the wider technology organisation.
Bring a calm, steadying presence during incidents and high‑pressure periods, and foster an architectural mindset across cloud and infrastructure teams.
Role Requirements
Several years leading Cloud or Platform Engineering teams, with significant Azure‑at‑scale experience.
Azure networking: hub‑and‑spoke, VNets, VPNs, NSGs, ASGs, firewalls, DNS, ExpressRoute, hybrid connectivity.
Designing, building, and operating secure, scalable Azure platforms (AKS, Azure Functions, managed PaaS).
Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Helm, including IaC best practices and governance.
Proven cloud migration and modernisation programmes (legacy VM → cloud‑native).
Azure security: Key Vault, Managed Identities, RBAC, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure Policy, Microsoft Entra ID.
Observability and monitoring (Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty) and FinOps/cost‑accountability practices across engineering teams.
Strong grasp of SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
Developing technical strategies for a cloud/infrastructure discipline and gaining senior‑stakeholder buy‑in; giving clear, actionable direction in complex situations to keep teams aligned.
Exceptional communication — translating technical direction for non‑technical stakeholders — and a natural coaching/mentoring style.
Desirable Skills & Experience
WAF technologies — Azure Application Gateway, Azure Front Door, or third‑party (Cloudflare, Akamai)
Azure data services — Data Lake Storage, Databricks, AI Search, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL Flexible Server
Container networking and service mesh (e.g. Istio), plus Azure Container Registry
Azure messaging — Service Bus, Event Grid, Event Hubs
CI/CD pipelines — Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions
API Management platforms — e.g. Azure APIM
Azure certifications
Perks & Benefits
Financials
We offer an annual bonus scheme.
We more than match your commitment to your pension, so when you contribute 6%, we put in 9%, taking your total up to 15% of your base salary.
Quarterly value‑led awards with generous cash prizes.
Referral Bonus: Recommend a colleague, get £2,000.
Work‑Life
25 days (plus bank holidays) (increasing after 2 years of service)
Hybrid role, two days a week based in our Richmond office
Family Enhanced leave after 6 months of service:
Maternity/Pregnant Parent Leave: 20 weeks at 100% pay.
Paternity/Non‑birth Parent Leave: 12 weeks at 100% pay.
Volunteer Days: We offer 2 volunteer days a year so you can help out wherever matters to you.
Health & Peace of Mind
AXA Private Healthcare: High‑level coverage for you, partners, and dependents—including pre‑existing conditions.
Bupa Dental: Level 2 coverage for cashback on preventative, restorative and emergency care.
Private GP: 24/7 digital access via Help@Hand.
Income Protection: 13 weeks of sick pay, before going onto Long term Illness cover with Canada Life.
Life Assurance: 4x basic salary covered by Unum.
Specialist Support: Free counseling and menopause/fertility support via Peppy.
Your Growth
Learning budget and continuous development opportunities. Every manager has a dedicated budget for your specific role development.
The Extras
Your choice of a MacBook or Windows laptop.
Perks@Work: Discounts at over 30,000 retailers and entertainment venues.
Annual conference with top tier industry guest speakers.
Social events including a Summer bash and an annual festive party.
Free food & drinks in the office.
We’re proud partners of Brentford FC, and we share the rewards with you.
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