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# Lead DevOps Engineer (Azure) - Newport, South Wales

- **Company:** Harvey Nash
- **Location:** Newport, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £66,000.0 - £78,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Azure, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Systems Development Life Cycle, Cloud Services, Software Engineering, Azure AKS, Terraform
- **Published:** October 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/devops-engineer-azure/harvey-nash-job108070871

## About the Role

You'll bring substantial practical experience across cloud engineering, automation, and the software delivery lifecycle, alongside a passion for developing engineers and improving ways of working.

Key experience includes:

 * Strong hands-on experience with Azure, Azure DevOps, Terraform, AKS, and CI/CD pipelines.
 * Solid scripting and software engineering capability.
 * Proven experience leading, mentoring, and coaching engineers.
 * The ability to make an immediate impact within an established engineering function.
 * At least five years' continuous UK residency, making you eligible for Security Check (SC) clearance.
 * The ability to attend the Newport office on a regular basis and participate in in-person interview stages.

## Description

A UK public sector organisation is looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer to join its Platform Engineering function as part of a major digital transformation programme.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you'll be responsible for setting direction, leading a team of DevOps engineers, and remaining close to the technology and delivery. The successful candidate will play a key role in modernising platforms, improving engineering capability, and driving DevOps best practice across multiple teams.

What You'll Be Doing

 * Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and developing infrastructure as code.
 * Supporting cloud deployments, troubleshooting issues, and contributing code where required.
 * Leading, coaching, and line managing a team of DevOps engineers.
 * Driving technical decision-making and promoting DevOps best practices across teams and services.
 * Working closely with engineering, architecture, and delivery teams to modernise platforms and improve delivery capability.
 * Influencing technical direction across a number of workstreams within a complex transformation environment.