Cloud Engineering Manager

Job TitleCloud Engineering Manager
LocationAsda House
Employment TypeFull time
Contract TypePermanent
Hours Per Week37.5
Salary
Competitive salary plus benefits
CategoryInfrastructure
Closing Date4 November 2026
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