Lead Platform Engineer | Terraform, Azure, Kubernetes/Docker | Build the Future of PropTech £80,000–85,000 base salary 1 day per week in Milton Keynes Our client, the UK's largest property services group, is on a transformative mission to modernise their platforms, drive innovation through automation, and become a tech-first leader in the real estate space. Backed by a major financial institution and with a brand-new, tech-committed CEO at the helm, this is a rare opportunity to lead platform reliability across a business that touches millions. This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Platform Engineer to step into a leadership role at the heart of a major cloud transformation. As Lead Platform Engineer, you'll be instrumental in building and evolving a robust Microsoft Azure-based platform that supports critical digital journeys across a large-scale, enterprise environment. Your core mission? Empower engineering teams to build, deploy, and run their services efficiently and securely, by delivering an automated, resilient, and scalable platform. You'll lead by doing: hands-on coding, driving infrastructure-as-code best practices (especially with Terraform), and embedding DevSecOps principles throughout the delivery lifecycle. The role spans orchestration, observability, security, cloud governance, CI/CD, and cost optimisation. You’ll also play a vital part in scaling the platform team intelligently, mentoring, upskilling, and guiding cross-functional engineers in a lean, high-impact setup. Tech you'll use: Azure core services (Virtual Networks, VMs, Storage, App Services) Terraform (syntax, modules, state, workspaces) Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins Containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) PowerShell, Azure CLI, Bash Azure AD, RBAC, Key Vault Git (branching, merging, pull requests) What you’ll do: Build and evolve a scalable internal platform for engineering teams Operate with a "you build it, you run it" approach across environments Lead on automation, security, and observability of platform services Code daily while scaling capability across the team Refine infrastructure via CI/CD and Terraform pipelines Collaborate with SRE, architecture, and onboarding teams Mentor engineers and support hiring into platform capability gaps The Offer: 25 days holiday bank holidays 3% employer pension contribution Private medical care, Aviva GP access for family, subsidised lunch & free gym Free parking and shuttle bus from Milton Keynes train station if required Lead Platform Engineer | Terraform, Azure, Kubernetes/Docker | Build the Future of PropTech