Sector: Infrastructure & Operation

Location: Central London

Type: Permanent

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Salary: Negotiable

We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer with strong hands-on expertise across Azure, Azure DevOps, CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code to shape and continuously improve DevOps practices across a complex technology estate. You will operate with a high degree of autonomy, driving a pragmatic DevOps improvement roadmap, modernising delivery processes and working across multiple teams to improve automation, security, reliability and operational readiness.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain scalable Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, including reusable YAML templates.


• Define and evolve DevOps standards, patterns and best practices across delivery teams.


• Lead Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, ARM/Bicep or equivalent.


• Drive automation-first approaches, reducing manual release and environment-provisioning effort.


• Standardise branching, release and deployment strategies and improve deployment reliability.


• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting and observability frameworks.


• Improve system resilience, recovery capability and operational readiness.


• Embed DevSecOps, security controls, secrets management, identity and least-privilege principles into pipelines and infrastructure.


• Reduce configuration drift and technical debt through automation and repeatable provisioning.


• Support containerisation and modern deployment models where appropriate.


• Work closely with Architecture, Engineering, Delivery, Cyber Security and BAU teams.


• Proactively identify improvement opportunities and drive initiatives from discovery through implementation and adoption.

Essential Experience

• Strong hands-on experience with Azure and Azure DevOps.


• Deep understanding of CI/CD and experience designing scalable pipelines.


• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience, particularly Terraform and/or ARM/Bicep.


• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting and observability.


• Strong knowledge of Git branching, version control and release/deployment strategies.


• Experience embedding security into cloud and pipeline configurations.


• Proven ability to work independently and solve ambiguous technical and delivery problems.


• Experience influencing engineering standards and practices across multiple teams.


• Strong planning, prioritisation, stakeholder management and influencing skills.


• Experience coaching and enabling other engineers.

Desirable

• Experience with containerisation and modern deployment models.


• Experience modernising legacy release processes and introducing automation incrementally.


• Experience working across mixed technology estates with different levels of DevOps maturity.


• Experience developing DevOps maturity measures, baselines or improvement roadmaps.


• Azure DevOps Engineer Expert certification or equivalent demonstrable experience.