Lead Platform Engineer

Connells Group; Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading estate agency and property services provider in Milton Keynes is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to enhance the ConnellsX Platform. This hands-on engineering role requires Azure expertise and a customer-focused approach. The successful candidate will collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams and contribute to the automatic scaling of the platform. This position offers a hybrid working arrangement.

Qualifications

• Experience and familiarity with Microsoft Azure essential.
• Hands-on engineering servant-leader experience required.
• Comfortable across orchestration, automation, and cloud domains.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for building and enhancing the ConnellsX Platform.
• Operate the platform aligned to 'you build it, you run it'.
• Help make this critical platform hosting all digital journeys a success.

Skills

Advanced knowledge of Terraform syntax

Deep understanding of Azure Terraform provider

Experience integrating Terraform into CI/CD pipelines

Understanding of ARM templates and resource management

Containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)

Knowledge of core services (Virtual Networks, VMs, etc.)

Experience with Azure AD, RBAC, Key Vault

Proficiency with Git workflows

Experience using PowerShell, Azure CLI

Experience with Azure DevOps, Jenkins

Understanding of cloud networking concepts

Knowledge of security best practices for cloud

Experience optimising cloud spend

Job description

Overview

We are seeking an experienced Lead Platform Engineer to join our Group Technology team in Milton Keynes. You will be responsible for building and enhancing the ConnellsX Platform. Your success and that of the platform’s is closely coupled to the success of your customer—the engineering teams running their services on it. Your customer focus and data-informed approach drives your day-to-day and strategic decision making.

You will be a hands-on and customer focused engineering servant-leader. You will be comfortable moving across orchestration, automation, pipelines, cloud services, observability and security domains (even if you are not an expert in them all). A non-negotiable is experience and familiarity with Microsoft Azure.

You will play your part in operating the platform aligned to our approach of “you build it, you run it” with multi-disciplinary teams. You will be coding daily and be expected to scale yourself through others. You will bring the expertise of Platform Engineering to Connells, upskilling staff and hiring into gaps. A goal of the platform is to scale through automation, so the team is expected to be lean with a handful of matrix managed engineers with a diversity of skills.

Working with your colleagues in site reliability, onboarding, architecture and delivery and directed by the overall Platform Lead, you will be an essential engineering leader helping make this critical platform hosting all of Connells digital journeys, a success.

Responsibilities

• Operate the ConnellsX Platform in alignment with our “you build it, you run it” approach within multi-disciplinary teams.
• Code daily and mentor others to scale through automation and people capability.
• Upskill staff and hire into gaps to build a lean, diverse engineering team.
• Collaborate with site reliability, onboarding, architecture and delivery teams to ensure platform success.

Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge of Terraform syntax, modules, state management, workspaces, and backend configuration
• Deep understanding of Azure Terraform provider capabilities and limitations
• Experience integrating Terraform into CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, etc.)
• Understanding of ARM templates and resource management
• Containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Knowledge of core services (Virtual Networks, VMs, Storage, App Services, etc.)
• Experience with Azure AD, RBAC, Key Vault, and security best practices
• Proficiency with Git workflows (branching, merging, pull requests)
• Experience using PowerShell, Azure CLI, and Bash for automation tasks
• Previous experience with Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar tools
• Understanding of cloud networking concepts (VNets, subnets, NSGs, etc.)
• Knowledge of security best practices for cloud environments
• Experience optimizing cloud spend and resource efficiency

About Connells Group

Connells Group is one of the largest and most successful estate agency and property services providers in the UK. Founded in 1936 and with a network of over 1,200 branches nationwide, the Group combines residential sales and lettings expertise with a range of consumer and corporate services including new homes, mortgage services, conveyancing, EPC provision, surveying, corporate lettings, asset management, and more.

Connells Group is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

Additional Information

Please note that we are unfortunately unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.

Job details

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Information Technology

Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom