Head of Cloud

Cazoo

richmond, United KingdomPosted Aug 1, 2026

Cazoo, is the ultimate destination for car enthusiasts and buyers alike! As a leader in the market, we pride ourselves on providing unparalleled search tools, expert car guides, insightful reviews, and a comprehensive vehicle price guide. Our mission is simple: to empower buyers to find their perfect car efficiently and with confidence, while also helping automotive retailers reach millions of eager buyers. At Cazoo, you'll be part of a team that's revolutionising the way people buy and sell cars. If you're ready to drive your career forward in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, Cazoo is the place for you. Join us and be a part of shaping the future of automotive retail! Role: Head of Cloud (Azure)Reports To: Director of TechnologyContract Type: Full Time, permanentLocation: Richmond UK, Remote About The RoleA 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. The estate runs a hub-and-spoke landing zone, AKS-hosted microservices, event-driven architectures, and a growing Databricks data platform, and we're migrating off a legacy VM estate toward cloud-native services. You'll balance perfection against expediency to meet business needs, embedding yourself across technology, product, and commercial — setting expectations, building trust, and striking the right balance between short- and long-term goals. Note From Liam Bennett, Director Of Technology: The automotive classifieds market has stagnated — prices keep rising, innovation has slowed, and the consumer experience hasn't evolved in over a decade. Dealers want alternatives and consumers deserve better. We acquired Cazoo in 2024 for one reason: brand. Cazoo spent £100M+ building 60% consumer awareness and genuine trust, and that brand equity is irreplaceable. But we didn't buy it to repeat old mistakes — we rebuilt from scratch: new tech stack, new business model, new approach. Since relaunching in May 2025 we've seen early traction. Now we need a Head of Cloud to ensure our platform is secure, resilient, and ready to scale. Our Azure estate is the backbone of everything — a modern hub-and-spoke landing zone, AKS-hosted microservices, event-driven architectures, and a growing Databricks data platform. We're migrating off a legacy VM estate toward cloud-native services, and we need a leader who can drive that transformation while keeping production rock-solid. If you've led cloud teams through significant modernisation programmes, built secure and scalable Azure platforms, and can turn infrastructure into a competitive advantage, this is the most impactful cloud leadership role in UK automotive. What we ideally looking for; Strategy &amp; Leadership<ul><li>Define and own a 3–5 year cloud strategy for Cazoo across infrastructure, networking, security, and platform engineering.</li><li>Drive migration from the legacy VM estate to a cloud-native platform (AKS, Azure Functions, managed services).</li><li>Design and maintain the Azure Landing Zone — hub-and-spoke topology, subscription management, and governance policies.</li><li>Partner with Product, Commercial, and Engineering leadership so cloud accelerates business outcomes; represent Cloud &amp; Security on the Technology Management Team, shaping strategy, culture, and ways of working.</li><li>Manage cloud budgets, drive FinOps, and oversee third-party vendor relationships.</li><li>Drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering, automation, and self-service platform capabilities that improve developer productivity and operational efficiency.</li></ul> Platform &amp; Infrastructure<ul><li>Deep expertise designing and operating secure Azure networking architectures, including hybrid connectivity, segmentation, routing, ingress and identity-aware access patterns.</li><li>Ensure secure, scalable operation across AKS, Azure Functions, and remaining VM workloads.</li><li>Own infrastructure-as-code with Terraform and Helm, ensuring consistency and repeatability across environments.</li><li>Champion DevSecOps and security-by-design with InfoSec, enforcing Zero Trust, compliance, and threat mitigation.</li><li>Maintain observability (Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty) and operational excellence through incident management, on-call, and continuous reliability improvement.</li></ul> People &amp; Culture<ul><li>Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing Cloud team, foster an engineering culture of feedback, continuous learning, and technical excellence.</li><li>Give feedback, recognise great work, and support career development; own and improve team engagement scores.</li><li>Provide technical leadership and mentorship across the wider technology organisation, not just the Cloud team.</li><li>Bring a calm, steadying presence during incidents and high-pressure periods, and foster an architectural mindset across cloud and infrastructure teams.</li></ul> Role Requirements<ul><li>Several years leading Cloud or Platform Engineering teams, with significant Azure-at-scale experience.</li><li>Azure networking: hub-and-spoke, VNets, VPNs, NSGs, ASGs, firewalls, DNS, ExpressRoute, hybrid connectivity.</li><li>Designing, building, and operating secure, scalable Azure platforms (AKS, Azure Functions, managed PaaS).</li><li>Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Helm, including IaC best practices and governance.</li><li>Proven cloud migration and modernisation programmes (legacy VM → cloud-native).</li><li>Azure security: Key Vault, Managed Identities, RBAC, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure Policy, Microsoft Entra ID.</li><li>Observability and monitoring (Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty) and FinOps/cost-accountability practices across engineering teams.</li><li>Strong grasp of SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.</li><li>Developing technical strategies for a cloud/infrastructure discipline and gaining senior-stakeholder buy-in; giving clear, actionable direction in complex situations to keep teams aligned.</li><li>Exceptional communication — translating technical direction for non-technical stakeholders — and a natural coaching/mentoring style.</li></ul> Desirable Skills/Experience (Nice-to-Have)<ul><li>WAF technologies — Azure Application Gateway, Azure Front Door, or third-party (Cloudflare, Akamai)</li><li>Azure data services — Data Lake Storage, Databricks, AI Search, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL Flexible Server</li><li>Container networking and service mesh (e.g. Istio), plus Azure Container Registry</li><li>Azure messaging — Service Bus, Event Grid, Event Hubs</li><li>CI/CD pipelines — Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions</li><li>API Management platforms — e.g. Azure APIM</li><li>Azure certifications</li></ul> Perks &amp; Benefits Here’s how we back you:Financials 💰<ul><li>We offer an annual bonus scheme.</li><li>We more than match your commitment to your pension, so when you contribute 6%, we put in 9%, taking your total up to 15% of your base salary.</li><li>Quarterly value-led awards with generous cash prizes.</li><li>Referral Bonus: Recommend a colleague, get £2,000.</li></ul> Work-Life 🏖️<ul><li>25 days (plus bank holidays) (increasing after 2 years service)</li><li>Hybrid role, two days a week based in our Richmond office</li><li>Family Enhanced leave after 6 months of service:</li><li>Maternity/Pregnant Parent Leave: 20 weeks at 100% pay.</li><li>Paternity/Non-birth Parent Leave: 12 weeks at 100% pay.</li><li>Volunteer Days: We offer 2 volunteer days a year so you can help out wherever matters to you.</li></ul> Health &amp; Peace of Mind 🏩Comprehensive cover so you (and your favourite people) have the care you need.<ul><li>AXA Private Healthcare: High-level coverage for you, partners, and dependents—including pre-existing conditions.</li><li>Bupa Dental: Level 2 coverage for cashback on preventative, restorative and emergency care.</li><li>Private GP: 24/7 digital access via Help@Hand.</li><li>Income Protection: 13 weeks of sick pay, before going onto Long term Illness cover with Canada Life</li><li>Life Assurance: 4x basic salary covered by Unum.</li><li>Specialist Support: Free counseling and menopause/fertility support via Peppy.</li></ul> Your Growth 🌱We hired you for your talent, and we’re committed to helping you expand it.<ul><li>Learning budget and continuous development opportunities. Every manager has a dedicated budget for your specific role development.</li></ul> The Extras 🔍<ul><li>Your choice of a MacBook or Windows laptop.</li><li>Perks@Work: Discounts at over 30,000 retailers and entertainment venues.</li><li>Annual conference with top tier industry guest speakers. Past guests include names like Matthew Syed and Damian Hughes.</li><li>Whether it’s our Summer bash or the annual festive party, we make sure we take the time to bring everyone together and celebrate in style.</li><li>Free food &amp; drinks in the office.</li><li>We’re proud partners of Brentford FC, and we share the rewards with you. From tickets to matches to the bucket-list opportunity to actually play on the pitch yourself, we bring you closer to the action.</li></ul> Diversity &amp; Inclusion at Cazoo The best ideas come from people with different backgrounds, experiences and ways of thinking. At Cazoo we are a place where people feel comfortable speaking up, contributing and growing. Bring your perspective. Bring your experience. Be yourself.