# Head of Cloud (Azure) Engineering · Richmond upon Thames · Fully Remote at Cazoo

- Company: Cazoo
- What the company does: Backed by General Catalyst and Sapphire.
- Company website: https://www.cazoo.co.uk/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Remote (US)
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-06-08
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://careers.cazoo.co.uk/jobs/7869634-head-of-cloud-azure
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/cazoo-head-of-cloud-azure-engineering-richmond-upon-thames-fully-remote/

## About the role

A senior leadership role owning the strategy, reliability, and evolution of our entire Azure estate — infrastructure, networking, cloud security, budget management, and platform engineering. You'll report to the Director of Technology, manage a team of Cloud Engineers, and own the platform underpinning our consumer-facing products, data platform, and internal tooling.

## What they're looking for

- Several years leading Cloud or Platform Engineering teams, with significant Azure-at-scale experience
- Azure networking: hub-and-spoke, VNets, VPNs, NSGs, ASGs, firewalls, DNS, ExpressRoute, hybrid connectivity
- Designing, building, and operating secure, scalable Azure platforms (AKS, Azure Functions, managed PaaS)
- Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Helm, including IaC best practices and governance
- Proven cloud migration and modernisation programmes (legacy VM → cloud-native)
- Azure security: Key Vault, Managed Identities, RBAC, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure Policy, Microsoft Entra ID