DevOps Engineer – Centrica Field Operations Platform
As a DevOps Engineer within the Centrica Field Operations Platform, you will play an integral role on the team responsible for enhancing our ability to forecast and schedule colleague availability to effectively meet customer demand. This involves ensuring engineers with the appropriate skill sets are dispatched efficiently to customer locations. You will collaborate as a member of Field Platform Engineering squads, supporting the efficient building, testing, and deployment of software solutions.
Day to Day Responsibilities
* Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of DevOps practices for the Centrica Field Platform
* Own and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, reliable, and repeatable deployments
* Promote automation‑first methods across infrastructure, build, test, deployment, and operational processes
* Architect, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure on Microsoft Azure using Infrastructure as Code
* Work collaboratively with software engineers to support applications built with C#, .NET, and APIs, ensuring production readiness
* Guarantee high availability, scalability, performance, and security of platform services
* Advocate best practices for observability, monitoring, logging, and incident management
* Provide technical mentorship and guidance to DevOps and engineering teams
* Serve as a key stakeholder in cross‑team discussions, influencing platform and architectural decisions
* Clearly communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non‑technical audiences
Key Stakeholders
Software Engineering Managers, Principal Software Engineers, Product teams, Security teams, Infrastructure teams
Problem Solving & Decision Making
* Extensive experience in a senior DevOps role within complex, enterprise‑scale environments
* Strong hands‑on experience with Microsoft Azure, covering compute, networking, security, and platform services
* Deep knowledge of CI/CD tooling and practices, such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar platforms
* Proven expertise in automation and Infrastructure as Code, using tools like ARM, Bicep, Terraform, or equivalent
* Solid understanding of API‑based architectures and supporting distributed systems
* Experience working closely with applications built in C# and .NET
* Strong understanding of DevOps, SRE, and cloud‑native principles
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across teams
* Comfortable operating at both strategic and hands‑on technical levels
Requirements & Skills
* C#
* .NET Core
* SQL
* Pipeline configuration, creation, management
* GitHub Actions syntax and workflow creation
* CI/CD concepts
* Orchestration
* YAML
* Powershell
* Azure Administration including Networks, Security
* Azure CLI and ARM templates
* Azure API Management
* Azure Functions
* Azure Data Factory
* Logic Apps
* Service bus queue
* Storage Account
* Application Insights
* Key Vault
* Event Grid
* Container Registry
* Batch account
Core Competencies & Technical Skills (AI and Emerging Technology)
* Designs, integrates and operates AI‑enabled solutions within enterprise environments, including prompt‑driven workflows, retrieval‑augmented systems and AI agents.
* Applies structured evaluation, testing and monitoring practices to ensure AI outputs are reliable, secure and compliant with organisational guardrails.
* Prepares and manages data used in AI workflows and takes responsibility
Benefits
We prioritise supporting diverse realities our people face. Life is about more than work. Our total rewards offer flexibility to choose what you need, when you need it, supporting you financially, physically and emotionally.
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