Azure Cloud Platform Engineer — DevOps & Tooling

Thales Group

Crawley

On-site

GBP 80,000 - 110,000

Full time

6 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Performance-related bonus
Half day every Friday
28 days annual leave (+bank holidays)
Volunteer day (24 hours)
Private healthcare
Pension scheme
Life cover
Employee Assistance Program
Employee discounts
Gym membership discounts

Job summary

Thales Group is seeking a hands-on DevOps/Platform Engineer to build and support cloud-native tooling for UK engineering teams. You will lead migrations to Azure-based solutions, ensure continuity of service, and collaborate with a Technical Product Owner to plan improvements.

You will coach junior engineers, drive deployment automation, and focus on reliability and user satisfaction. This role sits across platform engineering, DevOps, and internal developer experience.

Qualifications

  • Hands-on DevOps and platform engineering experience.
  • Experience migrating tooling to Azure-based solutions and supporting cloud-native environments.
  • Familiarity with automating deployments and operations.
  • Ability to coach juniors and drive best practices.

Responsibilities

  • Deploy and support cloud-based tooling environments for engineering teams.
  • Lead migrations from on-prem/legacy tooling to Azure-based solutions with minimal downtime.
  • Collaborate with the Technical Product Owner and stakeholders to plan improvements.
  • Provide automation and IaC-driven deployment solutions.
  • Maintain reliability and security across environments during platform rollouts.

Skills

Linux administration
CI/CD
Kubernetes
Docker
JFrog Platform
GitLab
Ansible
Python scripting
Infrastructure as Code

Tools

Jira
Confluence
Jenkins
Artifactory/XRay
GitLab CI

Job description

Thales Group is seeking a hands-on DevOps/Platform Engineer to build and support cloud-native tooling for UK engineering teams. You will lead migrations to Azure-based solutions, ensure continuity of service, and collaborate with a Technical Product Owner to plan improvements.

You will coach junior engineers, drive deployment automation, and focus on reliability and user satisfaction. This role sits across platform engineering, DevOps, and internal developer experience.

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