Technical Cloud Lead (Azure) at PEXA Group
PEXA Group is hiring a Technical Cloud Lead (Azure) in Thame, UK. Hybrid. Pay: GBP 75k-80k/yr.
About PEXA Group
PEXA UK provides a digital platform for property transactions, focusing on the completion stage where money is exchanged for home ownership. The platform connects lenders and conveyancers in a shared environment, enabling streamlined collaboration, automated financial settlement, and title registration. It is designed to reduce friction, risk, and delays in buying or selling a home, making completions faster, safer, and more predictable.
Technical Cloud Lead (Azure) job description
This is more than an infrastructure role.
As our Technical Cloud Lead, you'll own the technical direction of our Azure estate, leading the design, operation and continual improvement of the cloud platforms that support Smoove, Amity Law and Legal Eye.
You'll combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership, working alongside software engineers, security specialists, architects and operational teams to build resilient, secure and highly automated cloud environments.
You'll also mentor engineers, influence technical strategy and help drive our transition towards modern cloud-native and platform engineering practices.
What You'll Be Doing
You'll play a key role across cloud engineering, platform operations and technical leadership, including:
Designing and evolving our Azure platform
- Leading the design, implementation and continuous improvement of our Azure infrastructure
- Managing Azure landing zones, networking, identity, governance and platform standards
- Supporting cloud-native technologies including AKS, Istio and Grafana
- Operating enterprise Azure services including SQL PaaS, Storage, Redis, Cosmos DB, Key Vault and virtual infrastructure
- Building highly available, secure and resilient cloud platforms
- Leading disaster recovery, backup, monitoring and observability initiatives
- Managing incident response, root cause analysis and continuous service improvement
- Ensuring platforms remain secure, reliable and operationally robust
- Developing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Bicep
- Supporting CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
- Using scripting and automation to remove manual effort and improve operational consistency
- Improving developer experience through practical platform engineering
- Mentoring and developing Azure Engineers and technical colleagues
- Acting as the senior technical escalation point for cloud infrastructure
- Working closely with Product, Engineering, Security and Operations teams across the UK and Australia
- Helping define the roadmap for cloud infrastructure and operational maturity
- Supporting ISO27001, Cyber Essentials Plus and security assurance activities
- Working with suppliers and cloud partners
- Driving cloud cost optimisation and FinOps initiatives
- Maintaining documentation, standards and operational governance
Driving resilience and operational excellence
Modernising through automation
Leading people and technology
Governance and optimisation
About You
You'll be an experienced Azure infrastructure professional who enjoys balancing hands-on technical work with technical leadership.
We're looking for someone who has experience with:
- Designing and operating enterprise Microsoft Azure environments
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and containerised platforms
- Azure networking, security, identity and platform services
- Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Bicep
- CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
- Monitoring, observability and operational excellence
- Cloud security, disaster recovery and high availability
- Troubleshooting complex infrastructure, networking and application hosting issues
- Leading engineers and influencing technical direction
You'll also bring excellent communication skills and enjoy working collaboratively across engineering, product, security and operational teams.
Experience within regulated or security-conscious environments would be highly advantageous.
Why become a PEXArian?
Your wellbeing:
Enjoy four Wellness Days across the year to rest and recharge, plus 24/7 personal safety, medical and mental health support through Sonder. You’ll also receive an £800 Health Flex Pot to spend on health options, alongside access to a digital GP, mental health and nutrition consultations, and support with eye tests and glasses.
Your growth:
Grow your skills and shape your career through PEXA Academy and LinkedIn Learning. You’ll also have up to five days’ paid study leave each year for relevant courses.
Your rewards:
Our reward and recognition benefits include performance-based incentives, the PEXA OwnIt Equity Plan for eligible employees, PEXA Impact Awards and a £500 employee referral bonus. You’ll also have access to discounts through Perkbox and Get Active.
Your family:
Eligible permanent employees with at least 12 months’ continuous service can receive up to 20 weeks’ paid maternity or adoption leave and up to four weeks’ paid paternity leave, in addition to statutory entitlements. You’ll also have access to support for family and life events, including family grief counselling, discounted legal services and UK-registered veterinary advice.
Your work/life blend:
We know that work is just one aspect of your life – we want to help you create your ideal work/life blend, rather than squeezing in life around work. Our hybrid approach combines regular in-office connection with working from home. You may also be able to work remotely from an approved country for up to two weeks every six months and purchase up to four additional weeks of annual leave each year.
Your opportunity to give back:
Use your paid Volunteer Day to support a cause that matters to you and enjoy events throughout the year that bring PEXArians together to connect and celebrate.
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