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Lead DevOps Engineer

£37,000 - 77,000
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Sedan Walk, Ipswich
£37,000 - 77,000
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Company Size
500-1k
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Company Type
Services
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Exp Level
Lead
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Job Type
Full-Time
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Language
English
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Visa sponsorship
No

Requirements

Must:
- Strong, hands-on experience designing and operating Azure platforms - Proven Terraform experience (modules, patterns, safe change) - Strong Azure DevOps CI/CD engineering experience - Experience implementing governance, security guardrails and delivery controls - Comfortable operating without an existing DevOps team - Desirable: Azure Policy at scale - Desirable: Observability, SRE or platform engineering practices - Desirable: Container / AKS experience - Desirable: Cost governance and showback/chargeback experience

Technologies

CI/CD
RBAC

Responsibilities

- Full ownership of Azure subscriptions, landing zones and platform hygiene - Defining and enforcing governance standards (Azure Policy, RBAC, naming, tagging) - Improving platform resilience, cost governance and disaster recovery - Establishing Terraform as the single source of truth for infrastructure - Designing reusable modules and environment patterns - Reducing configuration drift across dev/test/production - Ownership of CI/CD standards using Azure DevOps - Defining pipeline templates, PR/branch policies, approvals and gated releases - Creating golden path delivery patterns for teams to deploy without bespoke pipelines - Defining monitoring, logging, alerting and dashboards - Improving incident response, runbooks and recovery processes - Shaping DR and operational processes (no on-call at present) - Coaching development teams in DevOps best practice - Standardising ways of working across squads - Building internal capability and reducing reliance on individuals

Description


We are seeking a hands-on Lead DevOps Engineer to take ownership of our established Azure platform. This is an exciting opportunity to shape and govern our environment, as we aim to stabilize and mature our Azure capabilities. This role will provide significant responsibility and autonomy, focusing initially on stabilization, governance, and standardization. We offer a hybrid working model with 3 days on-site, and our locations include Ipswich, Norwich, Chelmsford, and Cambridge.
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