Senior DevOps Engineer
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Job Summary
Team Overview
The DevOps team sits within Engineering and will consist of two DevOps Engineers in total and is responsible for supporting secure reliable and scalable engineering delivery across the business.
The team supports four development teams as well as the AI team for deployment and infrastructure needs. It also works closely with the Infrastructure and SecOps teams to maintain services improve operational resilience and ensure engineering environments remain secure stable and effective.
Job Overview
The Senior DevOps Engineer plays an important role within the Engineering team and the wider business by enabling safe reliable and efficient software delivery in a regulated environment. This role is central to the ongoing operation and improvement of CI/CD pipelines cloud infrastructure deployment automation observability and engineering platform support.
The role works closely with peers in Engineering technical leads solution architects test managers the AI team Infrastructure and SecOps. It is important to both day-to-day delivery and longer-term improvement of engineering practices helping teams release software more effectively while maintaining strong standards for security quality operational control and cloud architecture.
Responsibilities
Build maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines across products and teams.
Lead software deployment release automation and environment management in Azure.
Design build and maintain infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code approaches including Terraform modules where appropriate.
Provide DevOps support to four development teams and the AI team for deployment and infrastructure needs.
Support the PSS team when needed on platform deployment and operational issues within DevOps scope.
Lead support and drive the further development rollout and adoption of the Internal Developer Platform (IDP) helping shape shared tooling templates and engineering standards across teams.
Monitor platform health identify issues early and support operational incident resolution within DevOps scope.
Prepare and demonstrate cloud architectural designs for new resources and platform changes.
Investigate production incidents within DevOps scope identify root cause and drive resolution and improvement actions.
Track release dates gather feedback from technical leads and help ensure deployments are smooth secure and automated with appropriate approval checks.
Qualifications :
Essential Qualifications
Strong commercial experience in a DevOps platform engineering cloud engineering or similar role.
Experience building running and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with minimal supervision.
Strong experience working with Azure cloud services.
Experience using Git-based source control branching strategies and version control practices.
Experience writing and troubleshooting Bash and/or PowerShell scripts.
Experience of Terraform and the ability to create and maintain reusable modules.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with Azure DevOps GitHub Actions Jenkins or equivalent tooling.
Experience with Docker or container-based delivery models.
Experience supporting AI or data-focused teams with deployment and infrastructure.
Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert.
We encourage you to apply even if you dont tick every box. Whats the worst that can happen
This role will evolve as we grow and develop. So if you are looking for a challenge in a fast paced and dynamic business we can deliver on that.
Additional Information :
What we offer
A competitive salary bonus pension and share incentive plan
Take what you need holiday
Flexible working
Anchor (our wellness hub) which includes Headspace one to one coaching through Sanctus Parent Cloud Digital GP Shout & more
Enhanced family leave policies
Life insurance critical illness cover and income protection
Private medical insurance for you and your family
Electric vehicle leasing
The option to work overseas up to a month per year
Our Values
At our core we believe that how a company behaves is just as important as what it does. Thats why we chose to become an accredited B Corp (the equivalent of a Fairtrade coffee stamp but for companies) and to change our Articles of Association so that the interests all our stakeholders employees customers communities environment and shareholders are considered in every decision we make.
We are committed to building a workplace where diversity is valued and inclusion is a priority. By providing equal opportunities for growth and development we embrace and celebrate all races genders religions sexual orientations ages disabilities and socio-economic backgrounds. We believe teams achieve their best when every member feels safe respected and empowered to be their authentic selves.
Were proud to be disability confident and are committed to supporting candidates with a disability including neurodiversity and mental health conditions throughout the recruitment process. Applicants are welcome to opt-in to the disability confident scheme as part of our application process. If you require any adjustments to the interview process well be happy to accommodate where possible.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
About Company
At Octopus, were entrepreneurs and were investors, on a mission to back the people, ideas and industries that will change the world.
