Cloud Platform Manager

Cloud Platform Manager (Azure) Location: Derbyshire (preferred) or London Hybrid, 1–2 days a week in the office Salary: £75,000 – £85,000 + benefits

Amtis is partnering with a leading European business whose technology supports individuals across the continent. They are looking for a Cloud Platform / Infrastructure Manager to take their Azure estate to the next level, and to build the team that runs it.

The opportunity The organisation moved to Azure through a lift-and-shift migration. The next step is turning that estate into a secure, resilient, scalable and cost-conscious cloud platform built on cloud-native ways of working. Reporting to the Director of Infrastructure & Operations, you will lead an infrastructure team of 8+ and own the operation, governance and modernisation of the Azure platform. This is a genuine transformation role. You will balance modernisation with the operational stability that patient-facing services depend on.

What you will be doing

Run a reliable platform: own the availability, performance and resilience of Azure services, including monitoring, incident and problem management, backup, DR and resilience testing. Modernise: move suitable lifted-and-shifted workloads towards PaaS, serverless and containers where there is a clear operational, security or business benefit. Engineer for scale: build landing zone standards, reusable Infrastructure as Code patterns and deployment pipelines, making Terraform, GitOps and automation-first delivery the norm. Govern and secure: own Azure governance (management groups, policy-as-code, tagging, access and guardrails) and work with Security to meet zero trust and healthcare regulatory requirements. Drive cost-aware engineering: partner with FinOps and Finance on consumption insight, right-sizing, reservations and savings plans. Lead and develop the team: coach a team of 8+ through the shift to cloud-native operations with learning plans, hands-on labs and certification roadmaps, and manage cloud suppliers. What you will bring

5+ years of hands-on cloud infrastructure experience with deep Azure expertise, including at least 2 years leading cloud transformation (not just migration). Strong Infrastructure as Code skills (Terraform preferred, or Bicep/ARM), Azure DevOps / CI/CD pipeline design, and scripting in PowerShell or Python. Broad Azure knowledge across PaaS, AKS and containers, networking (vWAN, Private Endpoints, Front Door, Application Gateway) and identity and security (Entra ID, Key Vault, Defender for Cloud). Cloud-native monitoring and observability (Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics) and a grounding in DevOps / SRE practices. Experience supporting cloud cost optimisation and governance alongside Finance, Procurement or a FinOps function. Proven people leadership. You are a change agent with a teacher mindset who can make cloud concepts click for traditional IT teams and present confidently to stakeholders. Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) or equivalent experience. Desirable AZ-400, AZ-500, FinOps Certified Practitioner, CKA/CKAD or Terraform Associate certifications; experience in healthcare or another regulated industry (NHS DSP Toolkit, GDPR); multi-cloud (AWS/GCP) exposure.

Why apply?

A real transformation mandate: shaping the platform, not just keeping the lights on. Lead and grow a team of 8+ engineers. Work that matters, with technology that directly supports the people the business stand for. Hybrid working with just 1–2 days a week in the office. Interested? Apply now or contact James Warwick at Amtis for a confidential conversation