Lead DevOps Engineer

Overview

In this Senior/Lead role you will own and evolve the company’s Azure cloud estate, driving reliability, security and cost efficiency. You’ll steer IaC adoption and modernise the platform with Kubernetes, CI/CD and automated recovery. You’ll contribute to a cloud separation and migration programme across Azure and GCP, shaping the future of a growing data API and platform. This is a hands-on, impact-driven position with ownership and cross-functional collaboration at its core.

Pay / Benefits

• private healthcare after probation
• charity donation scheme
• work-from-anywhere week
• hybrid working
• team events and social activities

Responsibilities

• Own and manage the Azure cloud estate with a focus on security, reliability, and cost efficiency
• Lead adoption of Terraform and Infrastructure as Code, bringing existing infrastructure under management
• Operate Kubernetes workloads including deployments, ingress, scaling, upgrades, troubleshooting and day-to-day platform operations
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps
• Support cloud migration and separation projects across Azure and GCP
• Design, automate and test disaster recovery and business continuity solutions
• Improve monitoring, alerting and observability across the platform
• Manage cloud security, identity, secrets and certificates
• Provide technical guidance on Azure architecture and platform engineering
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues and act as senior technical escalation point
• Collaborate with development and technology teams to improve platform reliability and developer experience

Key requirements

• Senior/Lead level experience in cloud engineering
• Strong Azure experience
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code expertise
• Kubernetes administration and operations
• Experience with CI/CD, preferably Azure DevOps
• Cloud migration and cloud separation projects
• Disaster recovery and business continuity design and testing
• Monitoring, observability, security, identity and secrets management

• leadership
• collaboration
• problem-solving
• Azure
• Azure DevOps
• Terraform

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