Responsibilities
- Maintain clear visibility across all active workstreams in Cloud Engineering, proactively surfacing risks, blockers, and delivery concerns before they escalate.
- Act as the first point of escalation for engineers across the team on technical and delivery decisions.
- Set the standard for how the team works: technical quality, documentation, peer review, and engineering practice.
- Foster an environment where engineers are supported, challenged, and actively developing.
- Own the full line management of 3-4 Cloud Engineers, including regular 1-to-1s, personal development plans, and performance conversations.
- Support your engineers’ career development with honesty and intention — including the conversations that are uncomfortable.
- Actively mentor less experienced engineers, treating their growth as a deliberate part of your role, not a secondary task.
- Own and deliver your own technical workstream within Cloud Engineering alongside your leadership responsibilities.
- Apply engineering judgement across the team’s work, maintaining consistency of approach and technical standards.
- Stay technically current across the Azure and DevOps landscape.
- Represent Cloud Engineering in planning forums, architecture conversations, and cross-functional working groups.
- Build and maintain effective working relationships with peer functions — SRE, Data Operations, InfoSec, and engineering teams across the business.
- Communicate delivery status, risks, and decisions clearly to senior stakeholders.
Requirements
- Senior technical leader and line manager within the Cloud Engineering function.
- Reports to the Head of Cloud Engineering.
- Combines meaningful hands-on technical delivery with full line management of 3-4 Cloud Engineers.
- Owns their own technical workstream and maintains visibility across all workstreams in Cloud Engineering.
- Ensures delivery health, quality, and team progress across the board.
- Serves as the face of the function in planning forums, stakeholder conversations, and cross-functional peer discussions.
- Gets more satisfaction from watching their team deliver well than from landing a technical win on their own.
- Maintains credibility with engineers through technical currentness in Azure and DevOps.
