Senior DevOps Engineer

Role: Senior DevOps Engineer (Azure)

Location: Nottingham, UK (80% Remote)

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.