Job Specifications
Role: Senior Azure DevOps Engineer
Location: Nottingham, UK
Salary: £65,000 – £75,000 + Bonus
The Role
You’ll play a key role in ensuring system stability, scalability, and performance across cloud and on-prem environments. Working closely with software and platform teams, you’ll design, implement, and manage solutions that improve service reliability and accelerate development delivery.
Key Skills:
Azure
Terraform
Kubernetes
Azure DevOps
What You’ll Be Doing
Managing and improving production environments to ensure uptime, resilience, and scalability.
Using automation and infrastructure-as-code to streamline deployments and eliminate manual work.
Monitoring and tuning system performance across multiple services and environments.
Supporting development teams with deployment pipelines, CI/CD processes, and platform tools.
Troubleshooting complex application and infrastructure challenges.
Championing observability, incident response, and continuous improvement within SRE practices.
What We’re Looking For
Strong experience with Microsoft Azure and cloud-native technologies.
Deep knowledge of Terraform, Kubernetes, and App Services.
Experience building CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps.
Experience in a Site Reliability, DevOps, or Platform Engineering role.
Solid scripting or programming ability (PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar).
Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog, Azure Application Insights, or Log Analytics.
Excellent collaboration and communication skills with the ability to work cross-functionally.
A proactive mindset with a genuine passion for automation and operational excellence.
Nice to Have
Knowledge of Windows Server environments and network fundamentals (DNS, load balancing, Active Directory).
Understanding of SLOs, SLIs, and modern incident management frameworks.
Familiarity with infrastructure tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Jenkins, Grafana, or ELK Stack.
Awareness of security and compliance best practices in cloud operations.
About the Company
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