Deliver large-scale, security-critical Azure platforms, hands-on Azure DevOps expertise, and leadership in regulated environments.
Key Highlights
Technical Skills Required
Benefits & Perks
Job Description
Senior Azure DevOps Engineer
£70,000 – £80,000 | UK Remote (with 1–2 days/month client travel)
Security Clearance (SC) eligible required
A leading UK technology consultancy is looking for an experienced Senior Azure DevOps Engineer to join their cloud engineering practice, delivering large-scale, security-critical Azure platforms for enterprise and public-sector clients.
This is a hands-on, senior engineering role focused on building highly automated, secure and scalable Azure environments using modern DevSecOps and GitOps practices.
What you’ll be doing
- Designing, building and operating Azure DevOps platforms and CI/CD pipelines
- Automating build, test and deployment workflows across complex cloud estates
- Implementing Infrastructure as Code using Bicep, Terraform and ARM
- Driving DevSecOps best practice across delivery teams
- Supporting GitOps-driven continuous delivery models
- Improving platform reliability, security, observability and performance
- Providing technical leadership and mentoring within delivery teams
- Working directly with client stakeholders in regulated environments
What you’ll bring
- Strong commercial experience with Azure DevOps (Boards, Repos, Pipelines, Artifacts)
- Proven delivery of CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or GitLab
- Hands-on Infrastructure as Code experience (Bicep / Terraform / ARM)
- Solid scripting skills (PowerShell, Bash and/or Python)
- Experience with containers and Kubernetes (AKS)
- Understanding of cloud-native and serverless Azure services
- Experience with monitoring and observability tooling (Azure Monitor, App Insights, Grafana, Prometheus etc.)
- Exposure to GitOps, secure cloud design and regulated delivery environments
- Comfortable working in client-facing delivery roles
- Nice to have
- Azure certifications (AZ-400, AZ-500, AI-102 etc.)
- Experience with API Management, DevTest Labs, App Services, VM platforms
- Knowledge of security and compliance standards (ISO 27001, SOC 2 etc.)
- Experience introducing AI-driven automation into DevOps pipelines
Security clearance
-Due to the nature of client work, candidates must be eligible for SC clearance, including:
-Continuous UK residency for the last 5 years
-Right to work in the UK
Package & working model
-£70,000 – £80,000 base salary
-Fully remote UK working
-Travel to client sites 1–2 times per month
-Work on large-scale, technically complex Azure programmes
-Strong technical culture with genuine engineering ownership