Summary
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An experienced DevOps engineer will drive improvements across a complex technology environment, designing scalable CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code practices. The role emphasizes automation, cloud operations, secure delivery, standardized deployment strategies, and operational readiness.
Highlights
High-autonomy DevOps role focused on modernizing delivery processes, expanding automation, improving security and reliability, and establishing reusable cloud infrastructure and deployment standards.
Description
DevOps Engineer - Azure | Azure DevOps | Terraform | CI/CD | DevSecOps
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We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer with strong hands-on expertise across Azure, Azure DevOps, CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code to shape and continuously improve DevOps practices across a complex technology estate.
You will operate with a high degree of autonomy, driving a pragmatic DevOps improvement roadmap, modernising delivery processes and working across multiple teams to improve automation, security, reliability and operational readiness.
Key Responsibilities
Design, implement and maintain scalable Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, including reusable YAML templates.Define and evolve DevOps standards, patterns and best practices across delivery teams.Lead Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, ARM/Bicep or equivalent.Drive automation-first approaches, reducing manual release and environment-provisioning effort.Standardise branching, release and deployment strategies and improve deployment reliability.Implement monitoring, logging, alerting and observability frameworks.Improve system resilience, recovery capability and operational readiness.Embed DevSecOps, security controls, secrets management, identity and least-privilege principles into pipelines and infrastructure.Reduce configuration drift and technical debt through automation and repeatable provisioning.Support containerisation and modern deployment models where appropriate.Work closely with Architecture, Engineering, Delivery, Cyber Security and BAU teams.Proactively identify improvement opportunities and drive initiatives from discovery through implementation and adoption.
Essential Experience
Strong hands-on experience with Azure and Azure DevOps.Deep understanding of CI/CD and experience designing scalable pipelines.Strong Infrastructure as Code experience, particularly Terraform and/or ARM/Bicep.Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting and observability.Strong knowledge of Git branching, version control and release/deployment strategies.Experience embedding security into cloud and pipeline configurations.Proven ability to work independently and solve ambiguous technical and delivery problems.Experience influencing engineering standards and practices across multiple teams.Strong planning, prioritisation, stakeholder management and influencing skills.Experience coaching and enabling other engineers.
Desirable
Experience with containerisation and modern deployment models.Experience modernising legacy release processes and introducing automation incrementally.Experience working across mixed technology estates with different levels of DevOps maturity.Experience developing DevOps maturity measures, baselines or improvement roadmaps.Azure DevOps Engineer Expert certification or equivalent demonstrable experience.
