DevOps Engineer
Salary: £75,000 + benefits
Location: Hybrid (2-3 days per week onsite)
Employment Type: Permanent
The Opportunity
We’re looking for a strong DevOps Engineer / Lead Cloud Engineer who can take ownership of our cloud platform, engineering standards, and deployment practices as we continue to scale a cloud‑native environment.
This role is ideal for someone who lives and breathes cloud engineering, infrastructure‑as‑code, automation, and DevOps culture. We are 90-95% cloud‑based, with Azure as our primary platform – and AWS experience is a strong bonus.
You’ll design and maintain guardrails, build CI/CD pipelines, shape our cloud architecture, and ensure our engineering teams follow best practice across reliability, automation, security, and observability.
What You’ll Work On
- Designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines across cloud services
- Building reusable Terraform modules and infrastructure‑as‑code standards
- Implementing guardrails, policies, and cloud governance frameworks
- Supporting SRE practices: reliability, monitoring, metrics, automation
- Working across engineering teams to define and maintain cloud architecture
- Deploying and maintaining Kubernetes‑based workloads (containerisation focus)
- Improving platform resilience, availability, and scalability
- Ensuring best practice across DevOps, cloud operations, IaC, and automation
- Working closely with product, infrastructure, engineering and security teams
What We’re Looking For
Must‑Haves
- Strong experience as a DevOps Engineer / Cloud Engineer
- Deep hands‑on capability with Azure (primary environment)
- Strong experience designing/implementing CI/CD pipelines
- Excellent Infrastructure‑as‑Code experience, preferably Terraform
- Understanding of cloud architecture, patterns, and best practice
- Experience setting up guardrails, policies, governance and controls
- Containerisation experience with Kubernetes
Nice-to-Have
- Exposure to AWS
- SRE background: SLIs, SLOs, automation, observability
- Experience standardising cloud estates at scale
- Ability to influence teams and lead cloud direction
About You
- Highly technical and comfortable leading cloud engineering direction
- Passionate about DevOps culture and automation
- A strong communicator who collaborates well across multiple teams
- Happy shaping architecture as well as delivering hands‑on work
- Someone who enjoys responsibility, autonomy, and helping set standards
Why Join Us?
- 90-95% cloud-native – modern environment, no legacy battles
- Clear runway to modernise, automate, and enhance the cloud platform
- Role has genuine influence across engineering and architecture
- Supportive culture with room for progression into senior/lead roles
- Great opportunity for someone stepping up into a cloud leadership space
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