Lead DevOps Engineer (Azure) £65,000 - £75,000 East Anglia (multiple locations) Hybrid - 3 days on-site (1 day Ipswich) REED Technology are working with a client who are recruiting for a hands-on Lead DevOps Engineer to take ownership of an established Azure platform and replace the interim resource. This is the first permanent DevOps hire in the organisation, responsible for stabilising, governing and maturing the Azure environment while setting clear standards for delivery.This role is suited to someone who has led or owned DevOps/platform capability in Azure, can work independently, and enjoys creating structure, guardrails and repeatable ways of working.Accountabilities; Azure platform ownership andamp; governance. Full ownership of Azure subscriptions, landing zones and platform hygiene. Defining and enforcing governance standards (Azure Policy, RBAC, naming, tagging). Improving platform resilience, cost governance and disaster recovery Infrastructure as Code. Establishing Terraform as the single source of truth for infrastructure. Designing reusable modules and environment patterns. Reducing configuration drift across dev/test/production CI/CD andamp; delivery standards. Ownership of CI/CD standards using Azure DevOps. Defining pipeline templates, PR/branch policies, approvals and gated releases. Creating "golden path" delivery patterns so teams can deploy without bespoke pipelines Operational readiness andamp; observability. Defining monitoring, logging, alerting ..... full job details .....