Senior Azure DevOps Engineer

As the Senior Azure DevOps Engineer, you will support and manage production and non-production environments across a digital estate and oversee deployment pipelines. You’ll work closely with developers, service managers, and external technology partners to deliver highly available, secure, and resilient platforms and services.

This is a hands-on role ideal for someone who can balance day to day operational demands with longer term improvement and optimisation. You’ll maintain monitoring, support incident and request resolution, and help to shape best practices for deployment and operational support.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and monitor environments, pipelines, and alerts across platforms.
• Support investigation and resolution of incidents and requests across digital platforms and environments.
• Build, maintain, and optimize deployment pipelines across environments.
• Participate in the agile process, working closely with development teams to review, design, and implement infrastructure decisions.
• Maintain documentation for platforms, services, and pipelines.
• Audit activities to ensure compliance with security policies (including PCI DSS, GDPR, and PII).
• Perform root cause analysis and implement improvements to prevent incidents and optimize performance.
• Maintain and evolve monitoring platforms, including synthetic and application monitoring, responding to alerts and identifying bottlenecks.
• Support service transition, providing documentation, training, and handover for services post go live

Strong hands-on experience with Azure services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), deploying highly available and resilient applications.

• Expertise with CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub.
• IaC: using Pulumi, ARM, or Terraform, and proficiency in PowerShell, YAML, Python, or TypeScript.
• Synthetic and application monitoring platforms such as Dynatrace and Catchpoint.
• Understanding of .NET applications
• Knowledge of Akamai or similar CDNs, perimeter security, and OWASP security guidelines.
• Strong networking experience across DNS, routing, load balancers, and firewalls.
• Skilled with enterprise level deployments across microservices and multi server environments.
• Azure certification to Architecture or DevOps Solutions level (or equivalent experience) is highly desirable.