Lead DevOps Engineer | Redhill | Permanent Salary: £67,118 - £96,199 ( Dependent on experience) Location: Redhill/Hybrid(Business Requirement) Hours: 37.5 hours, Monday to Friday Benefits and perks: An impressive holiday allowance that rises in line with your years of service. Additional day off for your birthday so you can celebrate in style. Death in Service allowance to ensure your loved ones are provided for in the event of tragedy. Spend those crucial moments with your new-born baby with our enhanced Maternity and Paternity leave. Complimentary day of annual leave to cherish unmissable family moments – could be graduation, first day of school. Look after your wellbeing with access to a health and wellness program. Make the most of ‘Medicash Perks at Work’ – a tool for CitySprint colleagues to enjoy a variety of high-street discounts and rewards. Our ride to work scheme means you can keep fit while saving money – what’s not to like?! Travel for cheaper with interest free season ticket loans (available after a years’ service) This is where YOU come in! We are looking to recruit a Lead DevOps Engineer to join our team in Redhill. As a Lead DevOps Engineer you will work within an infrastructure team to implement and support the platform underpinning critical services hosted in Azure. The key responsibilities of the Lead DevOps Engineer role include: Infrastructure as code – fully automating deployments end-to-end. Planning, implementing and maintenance of infrastructure security. Network design and administration including peering, NSGs, routing and micro segmentation. Implementing and maintaining the continuous delivery pipelines for distributed systems. Integrating and maintaining, logging, monitoring and alerting platform (Live and Synthetic). Planning, implementing and maintenance of network infrastructure, including vWAN, Application Gateways, CDN and WAF. Managing and supporting the production and development environments, applications, and Pipelines. Working with operating systems, network infrastructure, Azure DBs, Azure Container Apps, container registries, multi-az/multi-region, HA deployments etc. Support engineering teams with exposure to Infrastructure as code. Assist with support and maintenance of applications hosted in Azure. Be part of on call out of hours support team. The key skills needed for the role include: Advanced Azure Skills, Native VMs, Container Services, Application Gateway, APIM, DevOps pipelines, best practice security – at least 4 years of experience in a production setting. BiCep Infrastructure as code – at least 2 years of experience in production setting. Advanced level of understanding of Docker, build optimisation, image management and deployment processes. Advanced experience with deploying user and system managed identities, service principals and service connections via code. Familiarity with Linux OS, PostgreSQL and Azure Cosmos. Experience in scripting languages (Bash, Python, Ansible, Terraform, Powershell etc.). Knowledge of JavaScript (Node.JS) and/or Go. Experience with Azure Resource Manager Template. Experience of securely managing SSL Certificates lifecycles (automation, renewal, bindings etc). Experience of authentication technologies (LDAP, EntraID, Azure B2C etc). A willingness to learn and contribute to the team. Strong communication, planning and troubleshooting skills with a strong sense of ownership. Knowledge of network routing protocols, SD-WAN, Private DNS. Knowledge of Continuous Deployment practices (Azure DevOps/TFS, GitHub). Knowledge of Agile practices. Knowledge of Azure API Manager and Azure App Services. Knowledge of Qualys security tooling for container and registry scanning. If this Lead DevOps Engineer role sounds like you, we really want to hear from you! The successful candidate will be required to undergo a DBS check as part of the recruitment process. Conditional job offers are subject to a satisfactory DBS check.