Lead DevOps Engineer

Overview

In this hybrid role you will own and evolve the cloud infrastructure for a growing data business, focusing on Azure reliability, security, and cost efficiency. You’ll drive a migration programme and establish DevOps standards, IaC, CI/CD, and observability to scale a B2B data platform. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to improve developer experience and platform reliability, making a meaningful impact as the platform grows.

Pay / Benefits

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

Responsibilities

• Own and manage the Azure cloud estate with emphasis on security, reliability and cost control
• Lead adoption of Terraform and Infrastructure as Code to bring existing infrastructure under management
• Operate Kubernetes workloads including deployments, ingress, scaling, upgrades, troubleshooting and daily 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 escalation point
• Collaborate with development/technology teams to boost platform reliability and developer experience

Key requirements

• Experience with Azure cloud estate management
• Proficiency with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
• Kubernetes administration and operations
• CI/CD tooling experience (Azure DevOps)
• Cloud migration and multi-cloud (Azure and GCP)
• Disaster recovery and business continuity design
• Monitoring and observability practices
• Security, identity, secrets, and certificate management
• Ability to provide senior technical guidance and escalation
• Strong collaboration with development teams
• Collaborative mindset
• Strong communication
• Problem-solving under pressure
• Azure cloud engineering
• Terraform / Infrastructure as Code
• Kubernetes

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