Job Description
Team Overview: The DevOps team sits within Engineering and consists of two DevOps Engineers responsible for supporting secure, reliable, and scalable engineering delivery across the business. The team supports four development teams and the AI team for deployment and infrastructure needs, and works closely with Infrastructure and SecOps teams to maintain services, improve operational resilience, and ensure engineering environments are secure, stable, and effective.
Job Overview: The Senior DevOps Engineer plays an important role within the Engineering team and the wider business by enabling safe, reliable, and efficient software delivery in a regulated environment. The role is central to the ongoing operation and improvement of CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, observability, and engineering platform support. The engineer works closely with peers in Engineering, technical leads, solution architects, test managers, the AI team, Infrastructure, and SecOps. It is important for both day‑to‑day delivery and longer‑term improvement of engineering practices, helping teams release software more effectively while maintaining strong standards for security, quality, operational control, and cloud architecture.
Responsibilities
- Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines across products and teams.
- Lead software deployment, release automation, and environment management in Azure.
- Design, build, and maintain infrastructure using infrastructure‑as‑code approaches, including Terraform modules.
- Provide DevOps support to four development teams and the AI team for deployment and infrastructure needs.
- Support the PSS team when needed on platform, deployment, and operational issues within DevOps scope.
- Lead, support, and drive further development, rollout, and adoption of the Internal Developer Platform (IDP), helping shape shared tooling, templates, and engineering standards across teams.
- Monitor platform health, identify issues early, and support operational incident resolution within DevOps scope.
- Prepare and demonstrate cloud architectural designs for new resources and platform changes.
- Investigate production incidents within DevOps scope, identify root cause, and drive resolution and improvement actions.
- Track release dates, gather feedback from technical leads, and help ensure deployments are smooth, secure, and automated with appropriate approval checks.
Qualifications
- Strong commercial experience in a DevOps, platform engineering, cloud engineering, or similar role.
- Experience building, running, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with minimal supervision.
- Strong experience working with Azure cloud services.
- Experience with Git‑based source control, branching strategies, and version control practices.
- Experience writing and troubleshooting Bash and/or PowerShell scripts.
- Good understanding of observability concepts including metrics, logs, alerting, and operational visibility.
- Good understanding of Linux fundamentals, including scripting, file handling, text processing, system administration, and process management.
- Knowledge of relational and non‑relational databases such as MSSQL, MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB, and Cosmos DB.
- Experience with Terraform and the ability to create and maintain reusable modules.
- Preferred: Experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent tooling.
- Preferred: Experience with Docker or container‑based delivery models.
- Preferred: Experience supporting AI or data‑focused teams with deployment and infrastructure.
- Preferred: Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert.
Benefits
Competitive salary, bonus, pension and share incentive plan. Holiday taken as needed. Flexible working arrangements. Comprehensive life insurance, critical illness cover and income protection. Private medical insurance for you and your family. Electric vehicle leasing. Option to work overseas up to a month per year.
Equal Opportunity Statement
We are committed to building a workplace where diversity is valued and inclusion is a priority. We provide equal opportunities for growth and development, embracing all races, genders, religions, sexual orientations, ages, disabilities, and socio‑economic backgrounds. We are disability confident and support candidates with a disability, including neurodiversity and mental health conditions, throughout our recruitment process. Applicants are welcome to opt‑in to the disability confident scheme. If adjustments to the interview process are required, we will happily accommodate where possible.
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