DevOps Manager

The DevOps Manager leads our release and deployment function for the Insurance division. Historically a hands-on, manually-driven role, deployment has evolved significantly with the introduction of automation across our environments.

The Release Manager now leads this next stage: providing a fast, stable, and reliable release engine that allows development, support, and project teams to deliver to clients with confidence and speed.

The role combines strong technical depth in deployment automation with people leadership, building a team capable of sustaining and improving that engine over time.

This is a genuine opportunity to shape what this function becomes next, working with a team that is keen to learn, grow, and take on greater ownership., * Own and continuously improve our deployment automation (Azure Pipelines, Git, and related tooling), ensuring releases are fast, reliable, and require minimal manual intervention.

• Plan and oversee UAT and production deployments, PI & BOBs installs/upgrades, and new environment creation.
• Lead root cause analysis on release issues and implement measures to prevent recurrence.
• Drive stability initiatives across environments, including proactive monitoring and maintenance to identify and resolve issues before they impact clients or teams.
• Identify and reduce technical debt within the deployment estate.
• Manage and develop the release team, balancing planned work, support requests, and improvement initiatives.
• Act as the primary point of contact for development, project management, and support teams on all release and deployment matters.
• Provide deployment estimates and guidance to support new and existing client work.
• Manage relationships with key technology suppliers and partners.

• Deep, recent Microsoft Azure experience, particularly Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Azure infrastructure and ideally Azure APIM.
• Proven experience taking legacy or manual deployment processes through to automated CI/CD pipelines.
• The ability to explain technical work in granular detail, including how they would design a pipeline from scratch and troubleshoot a failed deployment.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience, particularly Terraform, Bicep or ARM.
• Kubernetes, Docker and container-platform experience.
• Experience leading a mixed team of permanent employees and contractors.
• Genuine people-management capability, including coaching, performance management, training and closing skills gaps within the team.
• The ability to introduce governance without simply blocking activity, particularly around production access and deployment controls.
• Senior stakeholder engagement, budget ownership, FinOps and cloud-cost management.
• Security-testing and observability experience.
• Ideally, experience working in a software company or software-product environment, rather than exclusively within internal enterprise IT teams.
• A candidate who wants permanent employment and sees the position as a long-term career move.

Eurobase is an international software and service provider to financial institutions in over 25 countries. We provide enterprise wide solutions for (re)insurance companies, banks and other financial institutions as well as IT recruitment services.

Our aim is to be recognised as thought leaders in the sectors we operate, and to deliver innovative solutions that provide real business value to our customers.

We pride ourselves on our personal approach, ensuring we deliver the support and flexibility our customers need and the service they expect.

Our customers have a long and lasting relationship with Eurobase and all will verify our approach to doing business and commitment to product investment - delivering ongoing value above and beyond our initial engagements.