Azure DevOps Engineer

Searchability NS&D; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 39,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary up to £65,000

Flexible working hours

Remote working

25 days' holiday + bank holidays

Private healthcare and dental

Discretionary bonus

Job summary

Searchability NS&D in the UK is seeking a mid-level to senior Azure DevOps Engineer to support an education-sector client. The role is Edinburgh-based with remote work and one day per month in the office. Salary up to £65,000 with benefits.

You will build, maintain and improve Azure infrastructure, write Terraform modules, and develop CI/CD pipelines to deliver reliable deployments. The role requires observability focus and the ability to explain technical decisions.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on Azure infrastructure experience.
• Experience writing Terraform configurations and reusable modules.
• Practical Application Insights experience and the ability to write KQL queries for troubleshooting.
• Experience implementing observability, monitoring and alerting.
• Infrastructure configuration and security hardening experience, with an understanding of the controls implemented.
• CI/CD and scripting experience.
• Ability to attend the Edinburgh office once per month.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain and improve Azure infrastructure, writing Terraform code and reusable modules.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines and strengthen infrastructure security.
• Investigate production issues using telemetry, logs and metrics to improve reliability.

Skills

Azure

Terraform

Application Insights

KQL

Observability

CI/CD

PowerShell

Ansible

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD Tools

Job description

Azure DevOps Engineer

Strong mid-level or senior DevOps Engineer opportunity supporting an education-sector client.
Edinburgh-based, working remotely with one day per month in the Edinburgh office.
Salary up to £65,000 + Benefits
Hands-on Azure infrastructure, Terraform development and observability.

ABOUT THE CLIENT

Our client is an established software consultancy delivering technology solutions across the public and private sectors. They are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to take ownership of cloud infrastructure and automation on an existing education-sector assignment. Previous education-sector experience is not required.

THE BENEFITS

• Salary up to £65,000
• Flexible working hours and remote working.
• 25 days' holiday plus bank holidays.
• Technical learning resources and paid certifications.
• Private healthcare and dental cover.
• Discretionary performance bonus.

THE DEVOPS ENGINEER ROLE

You will build, maintain and improve Azure infrastructure, writing Terraform code and reusable modules to support consistent, reliable deployments.
Working alongside engineering teams, you will develop CI/CD pipelines, strengthen infrastructure security and investigate production issues. You will use application telemetry, logs and metrics to understand system behaviour and improve reliability.
This role requires practical infrastructure engineering experience, including the ability to explain the code, configuration and technical decisions behind your work.

DEVOPS ENGINEER ESSENTIAL SKILLS

• Strong hands-on Azure infrastructure experience.
• Experience writing Terraform configurations and reusable modules.
• Practical Application Insights experience and the ability to write KQL queries for troubleshooting.
• Experience implementing observability, monitoring and alerting.
• Infrastructure configuration and security hardening experience, with an understanding of the controls implemented.
• CI/CD and scripting experience.
• Ability to attend the Edinburgh office once per month.

KEY SKILLS

DevOps Engineer, Azure, Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, Application Insights, KQL, Observability, CI/CD, PowerShell, Ansible, Kubernetes, NSD