Role: Environments & Release Engineer
Salary: DOE plus extensive benefits
Contract type: Permanent
Employment type: Full time
Working hours: 09:30 – 16:00 core hours (flexible around core)
Location: Hybrid schedule – 2‑3 days a week in the office at Thorpe Park, Leeds.
Do you want to work for the nation's largest online pharmacy ensuring excellence for all our patients? We are a market‑leader in the pharmacy world, helping over 1.6 million patients in England manage their NHS prescriptions from request through to delivery. We are Great Place to Work certified and consider colleague experience a top priority every day.
Responsibilities
* Build and maintain robust, secure and scalable platforms in a hybrid cloud environment using technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform and Helm.
* Keep non‑production environments baselined and in sync with Production, including regular code and data copybacks.
* Manage environment configuration, variables and secrets in line with security and compliance standards.
* Support the sprint and release cycle by ensuring lower environments are up to date, available and fit for purpose ahead of test and release activities.
* Monitor environment health, reliability and performance, and proactively identify and resolve issues before they impact delivery.
* Spin up, configure and, where appropriate, decommission environments to support projects, test phases and experiments.
* Drive automation and tooling to reduce manual toil across Azure environments and CI/CD pipelines.
* Partner with Development, Architecture and Infrastructure teams to align infrastructure initiatives and promote standardisation and best practice.
* Create and maintain clear documentation, runbooks and environment diagrams to support repeatable, reliable operations.
* Contribute to continuous improvement of our route‑to‑live processes, including feedback into release management, testing and observability.
Qualifications
* Strong scripting ability in at least one language (e.g. Bash, Python, PowerShell).
* Strong troubleshooting skills with a logical, automation‑first mindset.
* Familiarity with CI/CD tooling (ideally Azure DevOps) and modern branching strategies (Git).
* Clear, concise written and verbal communication skills, including documentation.
* Ability to manage multiple environments and priorities in a structured, organised way.
* High‑level understanding of Kubernetes concepts (pods, deployments, services, ingress).
Benefits
* Occupational sick pay
* Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
* Contributory pension
* Discounted insurance (Aviva)
* Employee discount site
* Discounted gyms (via blue light card and benefits schemes)
* Employee assistance programme
* In‑house mental health support
* Free onsite parking
* Health and wellbeing initiatives
* Social events throughout the year
* Cycle to work scheme
* Green car scheme (subject to minimum earnings)
* Registration fees paid (GPhC, NMC, CIPD etc.)
* Long service bonus
* Refer a friend bonus
* Blue light card
* Hybrid working
* Commitment to CPD/training
* 25 days annual leave increasing with service
* Annual leave buy and sell scheme
* Discounts & exclusive offers at The Springs, Leeds
* 25% discount and health & beauty purchases
* 25% discount on Pharmacy2U private online doctor services
What happens next
Please click apply and if we think you are a good match, we will be in touch to arrange an interview.
Applicants must prove they have the right to live in the UK.
All successful applicants will be required to undergo a DBS check.
Unsolicited agency applications will be treated as a gift.
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