Azure DevOps Engineer

IT Associates is seeking a highly skilled Senior Azure DevOps Engineer to lead cloud infrastructure automation and CI/CD pipeline development. The role involves collaborating with various teams to ensure secure and scalable delivery of applications and services.

Responsibilities:

• Act as the lead engineer on large or complex client deploy/Migration projects
• Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps for multiple applications and services
• Manage and automate cloud infrastructure using tools like ARM Templates, Terraform, or Bicep
• Administer Azure DevOps platform including repositories, build agents, service connections, and permissions
• Collaborate with software development and operations teams to ensure seamless deployment and release processes
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions leveraging Azure Monitor, Application Insights, or equivalent tools
• Drive DevSecOps best practices, embedding security checks into pipelines and automating compliance validation
• Analyze and troubleshoot build, release, and deployment issues proactively
• Mentor junior engineers and promote a culture of continuous improvement
• Work to improve scalability, reliability, and performance of applications and cloud environments
• Ensuring clients & partners are updated on current status of work and issues
• Raise, investigate and resolve problems and known errors in line with the problem management process
• Ability and willingness to proactively improve ways of working, automation and processes via our continual improvement Kanban board
• Partake in an oncall rota to provide 24x7 4th line support for our client’s Azure end clients
• Proactively keep up to date on Azure services and developments
• Buddy new members of the team and train other teams
• Act as team leader and technical escalation point in Manager’s absence

Requirements:

• 8+ years of professional experience in DevOps, with at least 4+ years working extensively on Azure cloud
• Hands-on expertise with Azure DevOps (Repos, Pipelines, Boards, Test Plans, Artifacts)
• Proficiency in scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Python) and automation technologies
• Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, ARM Templates, or Bicep
• Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, AKS)
• Solid understanding of networking, security, and identity management in Azure
• Experience with deployment strategies including blue/green and canary releases
• Familiarity with monitoring tools (Azure Monitor, Grafana, ELK stack) and logging practices
• Proven ability to collaborate across teams and manage DevOps projects end-to-end
• Hold a number of current Azure Associate and Professional level Certifications
• Experience of building and maintaining scalable and auto-scaled environments using automation and configuration management tools (e.g. CloudFormation/Terraform and Ansible) beneficial or can be gained
• Scripting ability in one or more of Python, Powershell, Bash, Perl
• Experience of using Git for version control useful
• Experience of Jenkins or other CI/CD pipeline technology useful or can be gained
• Good knowledge of TCP/IP
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Desire to continually grow, develop and improve
• Must be self-motivated, a self-starter and possess a good working attitude
• Client focused and results driven
• Able to implement supportable solutions and make the complex simple
• Able to perform as a role model within the team
• A degree in a computing-related discipline preferred or equivalent ability and knowledge
• Experience working in an ITIL environment beneficial