Responsibilities:
- Lead and guide multiple communities of practices, including Lead Platform Engineering managers and platform engineers, encouraging best practices in Azure administration, development, and DevOps processes. - Understands the vision and strategy and articulates it to the community of practice leads and teams; the “why,” the business case, context, benefits any constraints etc. - Defines key features and platform enhancements needed to keep pace with business demand and own the product backlog. - Lead key strategic projects/initiatives to meet strategic outcomes and enable operational excellence. - Ensure feedback and learnings are obtained and utilised as early and often as possible. - Engineer and optimize hybrid Azure Platform solutions, focusing on but not limited to compute, network, storage, monitoring, security, and automation. - Collaborate with Lead Platform Engineering Managers, architects, and other stakeholders in the implementation and future development of Azure Landing Zone platform. - Provide expertise in IT operations areas, such as networking, virtualization, identity, security, and governance, ensuring these areas align with the overall Azure Platform strategy.