# Cloud Engineering Manager

**Company**: Asda
**Location**: Asda House
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Competitive salary plus benefits
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

Asda is looking for an experienced Cloud Engineering Manager to join the Cloud Platform Team, leading a team of cloud engineers responsible for building, operating and evolving one of the UK's largest Azure estates.

This role combines people leadership, technical direction and delivery management with hands-on involvement in cloud engineering. You will be responsible for developing engineers, setting priorities and engineering standards, and ensuring the successful delivery of platform, automation, security and cloud modernisation initiatives across the organisation.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Lead, coach and develop a team of cloud engineers, creating a high-performing engineering culture.

- Set technical direction and engineering standards across the cloud platform estate.

- Prioritise and allocate work across the team, balancing strategic initiatives, operational demands and technical debt.

- Remove delivery blockers and support engineers in delivering high-quality outcomes.

- Support recruitment, performance management and career development activities.

- Build and support Azure platform services and cloud infrastructure.

- Drive improvements to Azure Landing Zones, governance frameworks and security controls.

- Deliver and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.

- Improve platform reliability, resilience, observability and operational efficiency.

- Partner with engineering teams and stakeholders across the organisation to enable secure and scalable cloud solutions.

**Essential Skills**

- Microsoft Azure (enterprise-scale environments)

- Experience leading and managing cloud engineering teams

- Terraform and Infrastructure as Code

- GitHub and Azure DevOps

- Azure Landing Zones, Policy and Governance

- Microsoft Entra ID, RBAC and PIM

- Azure Networking (vWAN, ExpressRoute, DNS and Private Endpoints)

- Azure Firewall, WAF and Front Door

- Azure Monitor, Log Analytics and observability tooling

**Desirable Skills**

- Coaching, mentoring and developing engineers

- Experience supporting AI platforms, services and AI-enabled workloads

- Azure Containers and container technologies

- Cloud cost optimisation and operational excellence practices

- Retail or large-scale enterprise experience

**Benefits**

- Discretionary company bonus

- Company pension up to 7% matched

- Company Car allowance of £5,700

- 15% colleague discount in store and online

- Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.

- Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated

- Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

## Skills

### Required
- Microsoft Azure
- Terraform
- Infrastructure as Code
- GitHub
- Azure DevOps
- Azure Landing Zones
- Microsoft Entra ID
- RBAC
- PIM
- Azure Networking
- Azure Firewall
- WAF
- Front Door
- Azure Monitor
- Log Analytics

### Nice to have
- Coaching
- mentoring
- developing engineers
- AI platforms
- services
- AI-enabled workloads
- Azure Containers
- container technologies
- Cloud cost optimisation
- operational excellence practices
- Retail
- large-scale enterprise experience

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