Azure DevOps Engineer – 11658SR1

Azure DevOps Engineer

Job code: 11658SR1

£55k – 75k per year

We are looking for an experienced Azure DevOps Engineer to join our growing technology team. You’ll be responsible for implementing, maintaining, and optimising Azure-hosted environments, ensuring they remain secure, scalable, reliable, and cost-effective.

Working closely with Development, QA, Support, and Project teams, you’ll play a key role in platform improvements, deployments, automation, and supporting cloud infrastructure across a modern microservices-based environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and improve Azure cloud platforms and environments
• Support deployment pipelines and continuous delivery processes
• Collaborate with development teams on infrastructure and environment decisions
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex platform and application issues
• Implement monitoring, logging, and performance optimisation solutions
• Participate in paid out-of-hours deployment activities and support rota
• Contribute to infrastructure automation and platform scalability initiatives

Skills & Experience

• 2+ years’ experience in a DevOps or Cloud Engineering role
• Strong experience with:
  • Azure DevOps and Azure Pipelines
  • Docker (Linux & Windows)
  • Kubernetes / Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • CI/CD and Continuous Deployment practices
  • Azure SQL Databases and Managed Instances
  • Azure Service Bus or similar messaging platforms
  • PowerShell scripting
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • Application monitoring and logging tools
• Experience supporting microservices-based architectures
• Knowledge of IIS, SSO, Cosmos DB, NGINX, and Azure Application Insights
• Platform performance tuning and optimisation experience

Desirable

• Bicep and ARM Templates
• Cloudflare
• Octopus Deploy
• C#/.NET knowledge
• Prometheus and Grafana
• Seq, Loki, or similar logging platforms
• Virtual machine administration

Benefits

• Annual performance bonus
• Private medical, dental, life assurance, and income protection cover
• Employer pension contributions up to 10%
• 23 days holiday, increasing with service, plus bank holidays
• Holiday buy/sell scheme
• Flexible hybrid working (office attendance 4 days per 10 working days)
• Professional development and training support
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Regular social and wellbeing initiatives

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