IT & Software

Lead DevOps Engineer

Oscar

Birmingham · West Midlands · United Kingdom

Overview

In this Senior/Lead role you will own and evolve the company’s Azure cloud estate, driving reliability, security and cost efficiency. You’ll steer IaC adoption and modernise the platform with Kubernetes, CI/CD and automated recovery. You’ll contribute to a cloud separation and migration programme across Azure and GCP, shaping the future of a growing data API and platform. This is a hands-on, impact-driven position with ownership and cross-functional collaboration at its core.

Pay / Benefits
  • private healthcare after probation
  • charity donation scheme
  • work-from-anywhere week
  • hybrid working
  • team events and social activities
Responsibilities
  • Own and manage the Azure cloud estate with a focus on security, reliability, and cost efficiency
  • Lead adoption of Terraform and Infrastructure as Code, bringing existing infrastructure under management
  • Operate Kubernetes workloads including deployments, ingress, scaling, upgrades, troubleshooting and day-to-day platform operations
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps
  • Support cloud migration and separation projects across Azure and GCP
  • Design, automate and test disaster recovery and business continuity solutions
  • Improve monitoring, alerting and observability across the platform
  • Manage cloud security, identity, secrets and certificates
  • Provide technical guidance on Azure architecture and platform engineering
  • Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues and act as senior technical escalation point
  • Collaborate with development and technology teams to improve platform reliability and developer experience
Key requirements
  • Senior/Lead level experience in cloud engineering
  • Strong Azure experience
  • Terraform and Infrastructure as Code expertise
  • Kubernetes administration and operations
  • Experience with CI/CD, preferably Azure DevOps
  • Cloud migration and cloud separation projects
  • Disaster recovery and business continuity design and testing
  • Monitoring, observability, security, identity and secrets management
  • leadership
  • collaboration
  • problem-solving
  • Azure
  • Azure DevOps
  • Terraform

Reference: WJ-747_31051441

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