Cloud DevOps Engineer - Shirebrook

We seek a skilled Cloud DevOps Engineer with expertise in Microsoft Azure to join us and work as part of an enthusiastic, motivated, and delivery-focused agile team. We run over 50 websites and 10 Mobile Applications – including some of the biggest names in Retail.

This role will focus on designing, deploying, and maintaining Azure-based infrastructure to support our global operations, implementing and optimising CI/CD pipelines, and maintaining monitoring and alerting systems. In addition to day-to-day responsibilities, the role includes participation in an on-call rota to provide out-of-hours support, ensuring the resilience and availability of our critical systems.

This role is available on a hybrid basis, 2 days at home and 3 days in the office at our Shirebrook HQ (Nottinghamshire).

Your primary responsibilities as a Cloud DevOps Engineer will be:

• Azure Infrastructure Design: Build and manage scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure on Microsoft Azure, including virtual networks, storage accounts, and compute resources.

• Automation & IaC: Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.

• CI/CD Implementation: Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Docker, GitHub workflows and GitOps practices, enabling seamless application deployments.

• Monitoring & Optimization: Set up and manage monitoring tools such as Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights and Open Telemetry to ensure system health and optimise performance.

• Security & Compliance: Implement best practices for Azure security, including role-based access control (RBAC), network security groups (NSGs), and Azure Policy for compliance.

• Collaboration: Partner with development, QA, and Infrastructure teams to ensure a smooth integration of DevOps practices across the organisation.

• Cost Management: Monitor and optimise Azure costs, ensuring efficient use of cloud resources.

• On-Call Support: Participate in an out-of-hours on-call rotation, responding to critical business alerts and ensuring actions are followed up to reduce future incidents.

• Incident Management: Lead incident response during on-call shifts, ensuring quick resolution and maintaining service uptime.

• You will have 5+ years of developing and managing modern DevOps environments

• You will be Microsoft Azure or AWS certified DevOps engineer

• You will have familiarity with Site Reliability Engineering

• You will be committed to staying up to date with the latest technology and industry trends, continuously looking for ways to apply them for our benefit

You will have significant experience of the following:

• Build and deployment pipelines using CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps

• Working with Docker / Kubernetes, both for CI/CD, and orchestration with AKS or Container Apps

• Setting up and managing Cloud environments using infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) within Azure and/or AWS

• Delivering containerised, serverless, and virtualised infrastructures

• Networking in Azure, including VNets, load balancers, and Azure DNS

• Process automation and scripting

• Working closely with Cloud Infrastructure and Security teams to ensure organisational best practices are followed

• Coaching/mentoring development teams in the correct application of DevOps principles

It would be great if you also have:

• Hands-on experience with Cloud Security

• Experience using Monitoring / Observability, Logging, and Alerting platforms

• High level understanding of networking fundamentals covering Load balancers, DNS, virtual networks and firewalls

• Experience delivering technical documentation for the environments you setup

• Experience with serverless architectures and microservices on Azure

• Knowledge of Agile and Lean methodologies

• Experience using Git for source control, branching and pull requests