Role: Senior DevOps Engineer (Azure)
Location: Nottingham, UK (80% Remote)
Salary: £65,000 – £75,000 + Bonus
The Role
You’ll play a key role in ensuring system stability, scalability, and performance across cloud and on-prem environments. Working closely with software and platform teams, you’ll design, implement, and manage solutions that improve service reliability and accelerate development delivery.
Key Skills:
* Azure
* Terraform
* Kubernetes
* Azure DevOps
What You’ll Be Doing
* Managing and improving production environments to ensure uptime, resilience, and scalability.
* Using automation and infrastructure-as-code to streamline deployments and eliminate manual work.
* Monitoring and tuning system performance across multiple services and environments.
* Supporting development teams with deployment pipelines, CI/CD processes, and platform tools.
* Troubleshooting complex application and infrastructure challenges.
* Championing observability, incident response, and continuous improvement within SRE practices.
What We’re Looking For
* Strong experience with Microsoft Azure and cloud-native technologies.
* Deep knowledge of Terraform, Kubernetes, and App Services.
* Experience building CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps.
* Experience in a Site Reliability, DevOps, or Platform Engineering role.
* Solid scripting or programming ability (PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar).
* Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog, Azure Application Insights, or Log Analytics.
* Excellent collaboration and communication skills with the ability to work cross-functionally.
* A proactive mindset with a genuine passion for automation and operational excellence.
Nice to Have
* Knowledge of Windows Server environments and network fundamentals (DNS, load balancing, Active Directory).
* Understanding of SLOs, SLIs, and modern incident management frameworks.
* Familiarity with infrastructure tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Jenkins, Grafana, or ELK Stack.
* Awareness of security and compliance best practices in cloud operations.