Senior DevOps Engineer in Wolverhampton

About the Role

We are looking for a highly experienced Senior DevOps Engineer with strong depth in Azure, Kubernetes (AKS), and Infrastructure-as-Code to become the senior technical lead within our platform team. You will bring the hands-on expertise needed to evolve our cloud-native infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and observability stack.

This role suits a self-starter with strong communication skills and the ability to mentor others, set direction, and introduce best practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and own the design, operation, and improvement of our AKS platform.
• Develop and maintain Terraform/Terragrunt IaC modules and structure.
• Standardise and improve GitOps workflows using ArgoCD.
• Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps or Jenkins.
• Enhance and maintain observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, and OpenTelemetry.
• Use Ansible to automate configuration management and multi-server upgrades, on Windows and Linux.
• Mentor and support existing DevOps engineers, developing depth in our DevOps practices.
• Collaborate with the wider infrastructure team (cloud, networking, Windows) to improve overall capability.
• Work closely with the product & innovation teams to optimise incremental delivery of software in test and production environments.
• Promote automation, documentation, and secure-by-default practices.
• Support escalations on a best-effort basis during critical incidents.

Key Requirements

• 5+ years in DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering roles with deep Azure experience.
• Strong Kubernetes (AKS) operational expertise (networking, scaling, RBAC, Helm workload security, troubleshooting).
• Advanced knowledge of Terraform/Terragrunt and IaC module design.
• Solid grasp of CI/CD practices and experience with GitOps (ArgoCD) in production.
• Hands-on experience with observability tooling: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry.
• Practical experience with Ansible for configuration management and automation (Windows and/or Linux).
• Good Linux knowledge and Bash scripting skills.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Windows Server automation via Ansible/WinRM or DSC.
• Familiarity with container registries, image pipelines, and vulnerability scanning.
• Comfortable writing automation in Go.

What You Can Expect

• A technically challenging role with a genuine opportunity to influence on platform direction.
• A collaborative, geographically dispersed environment with a mixture of networking, Windows and cloud architecture backgrounds.
• Remote working.

How to Apply

If this sounds like an interesting opportunity and you’d like to find out more about the role, please apply by providing a cover letter along with a recent copy of your CV.

We’re currently focusing on direct applications, so we kindly ask agencies not to get in touch.