Salary: £75,000 - 75,000 per year Requirements: Strong, hands-on experience designing and operating Azure platforms Proven Terraform experience (modules, patterns, safe change) Strong Azure DevOps CI/CD engineering experience Experience implementing governance, security guardrails and delivery controls Comfortable operating without an existing DevOps team Desirable: Azure Policy at scale Desirable: Observability, SRE or platform engineering practices Desirable: Container / AKS experience Desirable: Cost governance and showback/chargeback experience Responsibilities: Take full ownership of Azure subscriptions, landing zones, and platform hygiene Define and enforce governance standards (Azure Policy, RBAC, naming, tagging) Improve platform resilience, cost governance, and disaster recovery Establish Terraform as the single source of truth for infrastructure Design reusable modules and environment patterns Reduce configuration drift across dev/test/production Own CI/CD standards using Azure DevOps Define pipeline templates, PR/branch policies, approvals, and gated releases Create golden path delivery patterns for teams to deploy without bespoke pipelines Define monitoring, logging, alerting, and dashboards Improve incident response, runbooks, and recovery processes Shape DR and operational processes Coach development teams in DevOps best practices Standardise ways of working across squads Build internal capability and reduce reliance on individuals Technologies: Azure CI/CD DevOps RBAC Security Terraform Cloud More: We are a technology-focused client located in East Anglia, actively seeking a hands-on Lead DevOps Engineer with a salary range of £65,000 - £75,000. This is a hybrid role, requiring 3 days on-site (1 day in Ipswich), where you will take ownership of our established Azure platform and guide its governance and stability. This is a unique opportunity to be the first permanent DevOps hire in our organization, allowing you to shape and mature our DevOps environment during an exciting transformation phase within IT. last updated 14 week of 2026