DevOps Team Lead

About the Role

We are looking for a hands-on DevOps Team Lead with strong Microsoft Azure expertise to support and coordinate our DevOps function at Bromcom.

Reporting to the Head of Platform Services, this role combines active engineering contribution with day-to-day team leadership. You will remain close to the technology, working directly within our Azure estate, while ensuring the team is organised, focused and delivering effectively.

This is not a pure management position. We are looking for someone who leads from the front: technically credible, delivery-focused and comfortable working in the detail.

You will work alongside a DevOps Technical Lead, forming a balanced partnership between deep technical architecture and structured team coordination. Strategy and priorities will be set by the Head of Platform Services; your role is to translate these into strong technical delivery and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

Hands-On Azure Engineering

• Actively design, build and improve our Microsoft Azure infrastructure

• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, ARM or similar)

• Enhance CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation (Azure DevOps preferred)

• Contribute directly to platform security, governance and cost optimisation

• Support complex troubleshooting and production incident resolution

Azure Platform Oversight

• Ensure our Azure environments are secure, scalable and resilient

• Maintain best practice across networking, identity, access control and monitoring

• Review technical changes and uphold engineering standards

• Collaborate with the Technical Lead on architectural improvements

Team Leadership & Coordination

• Organise and prioritise the day-to-day work of the DevOps team

• Translate platform strategy into clear, manageable workstreams

• Run stand-ups and planning sessions

• Remove blockers and maintain delivery momentum

• Mentor and support the ongoing development of team members

Continuous Improvement

• Identify opportunities to modernise and optimise our Azure estate

• Increase automation and reduce manual operational processes

• Strengthen monitoring, observability and incident response capabilities

• Drive incremental, practical improvements to reliability and performance

Skills & Experience

Essential

• Strong hands-on experience managing production environments in Microsoft Azure

• Deep understanding of Azure services including compute, networking, storage, identity, security and monitoring

• Proven experience implementing Infrastructure as Code

• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines

• Strong troubleshooting experience in live production environments

• Experience mentoring or coordinating engineers

• Ability to balance technical contribution with team organisation

Desirable

• Experience with AKS or containerised workloads

• Experience supporting SaaS platforms at scale

• Experience improving legacy or hybrid cloud environments

• Familiarity with cost management and governance frameworks in Azure

Working Model

• The Head of Platform Services sets overall direction and priorities.

• The DevOps Technical Lead provides deep architectural guidance.

• The DevOps Team Lead ensures strong hands-on delivery, Azure platform stability and effective team coordination.

What We’re Looking For

• A technically strong Azure engineer who enjoys leading by example

• Someone structured and organised, without losing technical depth

• A pragmatic problem-solver focused on reliability and improvement

• A confident communicator who can represent the team across the business