Azure DevOps Engineer

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

• 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

• 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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