Cloud Engineering ManagerTechnology

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

About You

You are an experienced cloud engineering manager with strong Azure expertise and a proven track record of leading engineering teams within complex enterprise environments. You have a pragmatic approach to automation, governance and cloud operations, and are passionate about developing engineers and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

You can balance people leadership with technical credibility, setting clear direction while remaining engaged in the technology and supporting the team in solving complex engineering challenges. You build strong stakeholder relationships, manage competing priorities effectively and enable the delivery of secure, reliable and scalable cloud platform capabilities.

Everything you'll love

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

  • 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.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves

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Benefits you’ll only find here

10% off Asda pet insurance

10% off selected Asda Pharmacy services

10% off Asda Tyres

10% off Asda Travel insurance

20% off Asda Mobile bundles

Free remote GP service

Available to you, your partner and your children, 24/7, year round.

Pension

Save for retirement with contributions paid into your pension account by you and Asda.

Free physiotherapy consultations

Helping you and your partner take care of yourselves with 8 free sessions per year.

Colleague discounts

15% off at our stores - get discounts on groceries and George all year round.

Car cash allowance

Eligible colleagues will receive a cash allowance as part of their benefits package. In addition, all salaried colleagues can choose to register for the Salary Sacrifice Electric Car scheme*.

(*Conditions apply)

Mortgage advice

Whether you’re a first-time buyer, renewing your mortgage, looking at buy to lets, or simply after some advice in getting a mortgage, get free* unbiased advice through the Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB), one the UKs largest mortgage brokers.

Confidential support helpline

Find free emotional, practical, and financial support that’s fully confidential, through a helpline that’s available 24/7, year round.

Cycle to work

Buy a bike through this scheme and save on tax and national insurance.

Financial support

Find financial wellbeing tools and support, including the ability to stream your pay.

Free eye tests

Head to our in store opticians for a free checkup and take care of your vision.

Bonus

Sharing our success with a discretionary bonus scheme for salaried colleagues that really rewards your contributions.

Cancer support

Guidance and support for you and your family, from before diagnosis, to treatment and beyond.

Paid time off

From holiday to sick leave and other types of leave, such as parental leave.

Mental health support

Access free mental health support for you and your family.

Support and advice with care

If you’re supporting older family or friends with care and support, find free, confidential information, expert support, and guidance about later life care for your loved ones through the Legal & General Care Concierge service.

Hybrid working

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots

Save money on every day spends

Access to hundreds of high-street discounted Vouchers, discounts on days out, gym memberships, airport parking, and more

Setting your loved ones up for the future

As part of the team, you’ll get life assurance.

Guaranteed contracted hours

All colleagues are guaranteed weekly contracted hours / guaranteed weekly shifts via their contract of employment which is agreed with the hiring manager.

Holiday buying

Once a year our salaried colleagues are able to buy up to 5 additional days holiday via salary sacrifice (subject to eligibility).

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Here at Asda, we think that the best way to work is to do it where it works best. That’s why all of our teams who are able to work from home, work with each other to figure out a pattern that works for you all, and the business needs. So you can get the most out of work, whether that’s at home, the office, or both.

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