Teksands.ai
Website:
teksands.ai
Job details:
Core Responsibilities:
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of platform initiatives, from early discovery through to production rollout
- Facilitate discovery workshops and technical discussions, working with stakeholders to clarify ambiguous requirements and define solutions
- Strong ability to engage and communicate with stakeholders at all levels, from engineers to senior leadership, translating technical concepts into clear outcomes and aligning teams around delivery goals
- Own and define target architectures across cloud platforms (Azure and AWS), ensuring scalability, resilience, and security
- Translate architecture into clear delivery plans, breaking down work into epics, features, and actionable backlog items
- Generate and prioritise backlog, enabling teams to deliver efficiently with clear direction and outcomes
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineers, unblocking delivery and raising engineering standards
- Drive best practices across IaC, CI/CD, security, networking, and observability
- Design and oversee cloud infrastructure solutions using Azure (and AWS where relevant), ensuring alignment with long-term strategy
- Lead the adoption and evolution of Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Bicep, ARM)
- Establish and optimise CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps
- Ensure robust security architecture, including IAM, encryption, and least- privilege access
- Own platform reliability, including performance, monitoring, disaster recovery, and business continuity
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (data, application engineering, product) to align platform capabilities with business needs
- Own operational readiness for platform services, ensuring monitoring, alerting, runbooks, incident response, and escalation paths are in place before production rollout
- Drive platform observability across logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and business-critical service health indicators, ensuring issues are detected early and alerts are meaningful and actionable
- Lead continuous improvement of production reliability through post-incident reviews, root cause analysis, automation of operational tasks, and prioritisation of reliability improvements into the delivery backlog
Skills & Experience Required
We’re looking for someone who combines deep technical expertise with strong leadership and delivery capability:
- Proven experience operating at a Lead or Principal level, owning technical direction and delivery
- Strong experience in running projects and defining requirements, from discovery through to execution
- Demonstrated ability to define architecture and translate it into structured delivery plans and backlogs
- Experience leading engineers or teams, including mentoring, task planning, and delivery coordination
- Deep expertise in Azure cloud services and architecture, AWS experience beneficial.
- Advanced proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Bicep, ARM)
- Strong experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines
- Solid understanding of cloud networking, security, and distributed systems
- Strong understanding of Cloud Adoption Frameworks (CAF) across Azure and AWS, with the ability to apply them to real-world platform design, governance, and migration strategies
- Hands-on capability with scripting and automation (PowerShell, Python, Ansible or similar)
- Experience working across complex, production-grade environments with high reliability requirements
Additional skills/qualification that would be beneficial for this role:
- Architecture Level certification;
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect
- Multi-cloud experience (Azure, AWS, GCP)
- Containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, AKS, EKS)
- Experience with Content Management Systems (Contentful, Optimizely, Adobe etc).
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