Azure & AWS DevOps Engineer – Automation Lead

ANS Group; Manchester; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

ANS Group is seeking a DevOps-focused professional to join a close-knit operations team. You will deliver proactive DevOps services across customer environments in Azure and AWS, with an emphasis on automation and timely delivery.

You will collaborate with customer operations teams to improve DevOps, create automation, and manage pipelines, infrastructure, and configurations. This role also involves upskilling teams in modern DevOps practices and maintaining standards.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of DevOps practices.
• Experience delivering automation in cloud environments (Azure/AWS).
• Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines, configuration management and IaC.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with customer operations teams to improve and extend their DevOps.
• Create and develop automation to streamline deployments.
• Configure and manage code repositories and build/release pipelines.
• Manage application infrastructure configurations (cloud and on‑prem).
• Help define ANS DevOps standards across the team and tech stack.
• Track time spent on customer backlogs and deliverables.
• Serve as a technical escalation point for cloud engineering.
• Upskill other teams in DevOps practices and tooling across the business.

Skills

DevOps practices

Automation

Scripting

Collaboration

Cloud mindset

Tools

Azure

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

GitLab

Docker

Kubernetes

AKS

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Node.js

Ansible

DSC

Chef

Puppet

Terraform

ARM Templates

Azure Logs

Application Insights

ELK

Grafana

Logic Monitor

Job description

ANS Group is seeking a DevOps-focused professional to join a close-knit operations team. You will deliver proactive DevOps services across customer environments in Azure and AWS, with an emphasis on automation and timely delivery.

You will collaborate with customer operations teams to improve DevOps, create automation, and manage pipelines, infrastructure, and configurations. This role also involves upskilling teams in modern DevOps practices and maintaining standards.