Azure Engineering Lead

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What will your typical day look like?
In the Engineering-as-a-Service team, a typical day will involve monitroing cloud environments, troubleshooting incidents, and implementing solutions for infrastructure issues while collaborating with developers to optimise deployments and automate workflows. The role involves daily stand-ups, responding to tickets, proactive system maintenance, and continuous improvement of cloud operations to ensure reliability and scalability.

About The Team
Our Engineering as a Service practice consists of a diverse mix of skilled and experienced managed services personnel providing differentiated Cloud, Platform, Infrastructure, and Data and AI Managed Services for leading edge technology transformation projects in steady state. Our team is responsible for providing our clients with the highest level of customer support services by using modern service management frameworks and leading operational tooling.

Key Responsibilities
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• Define and maintain best practices, reference architectures, and standards for Azure services and operations.
• Support client onboarding and lifecycle management for Azure environments under managed services.
• Act as an escalation point for complex Azure-related incidents problems, and BAU enhancements
• Work with the team to improve monitoring, automation, and observability using Azure-native tools and integrations (e.g. Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Elastic)
• Mentor engineers and consultants to uplift Azure technical capability across the team.
• Drive certification and training initiatives aligned to Microsoft's cloud roadmap.
• Contribute to recruitment and workforce planning to ensure a high-performing Azure capability.
• Act as a trusted advisor to key clients, contributing to technical strategy, optimisation, and cloud maturity.
• Participate in pre-sales engagements, proposals, and solution design when Azure expertise is required.
• Champion automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and DevOps principles within Azure solutions.
• Continuously assess emerging Microsoft technologies and integrate them into the managed services offering where appropriate.

Essential Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of experience delivering of technical delivery of Azure DevOps and Azure solutions
• Experience with designing Azure cloud architecture covering IaaS and/or PaaS services
• Experience with Azure integration and exposure across services such as Function Apps, App Services, API Management, Logic Apps, and Service Bus
• Experience deploying and managing Azure AI services (e.g., Azure OpenAI, Azure Machine Learning, Cognitive Services) in production environments
• Proven ability to integrate agentic AI solutions (such as autonomous agents, orchestration frameworks, or AI-driven workflows) into cloud-native architectures
• Good knowledge of Azure services, subscriptions, and cost optimisation strategies
• Experience with infrastructure as code such as Azure Bicep and/or Terraform, and scripting with PowerShell and Azure CLI.
• Experience designing scalable processes and infrastructure in Microsoft Azure
• Experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub or similar source control and CI/CD platforms.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical teams or capabilities.
• Strong understanding of managed services delivery and SLAs.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills and a commitment to documentation and continuous improvement.
• Willingness to be on an on-call roster after hours for which you will receive additional compensation

Desirable:

• Azure Solutions Architect and relevant professional certifications
• Expertise with C# and the .NET ecosystem
• Familiarity with ITIL processes (e.g., incident, change, and configuration management).
• Exposure to designing, building, and optimizing data pipelines using Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Azure Databricks

Why Deloitte?
At Deloitte, we focus our energy on interesting and impactful work.
We're always learning, innovating and setting the standard; making a positive difference to our clients and our society. We putcoaching at the heart of what we do, helping our people grow their careers in any direction – whether it be up, moving into something new, or even moving across the world.

We embrace diversity, equity and inclusion.
We have a diverse collection of people from different backgrounds, with different experiences, gender identities, abilities and thinking styles. What binds us together is a shared commitment to value everyone's perspective and to cultivate inclusion; so that our work environment is a safe space we can all belong.

We prioritise flexibility and choice.
At Deloitte, you get trust on Day 1. We know our people get their best work done when they're in control of where and how they work, designing their work week around their client, team and personal commitments.

We help you live and work well.
To support your personal and professional life, we offer a range of perks and benefits , including retail discounts, wellbeing leave, paid volunteering days, twelve flexible working options, market-leading parental leave and return to work support package.

Next Steps
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