Azure DevOps Engineer
Job code: 11658SR1
£55k – 75k per year
We are looking for an experienced Azure DevOps Engineer to join our growing technology team. You’ll be responsible for implementing, maintaining, and optimising Azure-hosted environments, ensuring they remain secure, scalable, reliable, and cost-effective.
Working closely with Development, QA, Support, and Project teams, you’ll play a key role in platform improvements, deployments, automation, and supporting cloud infrastructure across a modern microservices-based environment.
Key Responsibilities
* Build, maintain, and improve Azure cloud platforms and environments
* Support deployment pipelines and continuous delivery processes
* Collaborate with development teams on infrastructure and environment decisions
* Troubleshoot and resolve complex platform and application issues
* Implement monitoring, logging, and performance optimisation solutions
* Participate in paid out-of-hours deployment activities and support rota
* Contribute to infrastructure automation and platform scalability initiatives
Skills & Experience
* 2+ years’ experience in a DevOps or Cloud Engineering role
* Strong experience with:
o Azure DevOps and Azure Pipelines
o Docker (Linux & Windows)
o Kubernetes / Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
o CI/CD and Continuous Deployment practices
o Azure SQL Databases and Managed Instances
o Azure Service Bus or similar messaging platforms
o PowerShell scripting
o Microsoft SQL Server
o Application monitoring and logging tools
* Experience supporting microservices-based architectures
* Knowledge of IIS, SSO, Cosmos DB, NGINX, and Azure Application Insights
* Platform performance tuning and optimisation experience
Desirable
* Bicep and ARM Templates
* Cloudflare
* Octopus Deploy
* C#/.NET knowledge
* Prometheus and Grafana
* Seq, Loki, or similar logging platforms
* Virtual machine administration
Benefits
* Annual performance bonus
* Private medical, dental, life assurance, and income protection cover
* Employer pension contributions up to 10%
* 23 days holiday, increasing with service, plus bank holidays
* Holiday buy/sell scheme
* Flexible hybrid working (office attendance 4 days per 10 working days)
* Professional development and training support
* Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
* Regular social and wellbeing initiatives
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