DevOps Engineer

People's Partnership; Crawley; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous pension contributions

Real living wage

Income protection

Employee healthcare

Parental leave

Learning & development

Travel season ticket loans

Volunteering days

Onsite gym

Social clubs

Job summary

People’s Partnership is seeking a DevOps/Platform engineer to join the Platform Engineering team, delivering Azure-based solutions using modern cloud, CI/CD, and automation practices.

You will contribute to an efficient IT function supporting People’s Partnership and related organisations, operating within governance and design standards while enabling self-service pipelines and secure deployments.

Qualifications

• Azure public cloud experience (IaaS, PaaS, Serverless).
• Experience as a DevOps / Platform / SRE engineer.
• Infrastructure as Code: Bicep (including modules), Terraform, or ARM or similar.
• CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps YAML or similar.
• Cloud security and hardening.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain reusable, versioned Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to deliver consistent and repeatable solutions.
• Evolve CI/CD platforms and pipelines supporting application and infrastructure delivery, ensuring they are secure and reliable.
• Enable teams through self-service pipelines and templates, improving developer experience while maintaining appropriate controls.
• Act as a technical advisor to engineering teams, providing hands-on guidance in cloud architecture, DevOps practices, and Azure services.
• Influence solution design to balance delivery speed, reliability, security, and cost.
• Ensure solutions comply with design standards, governance controls, and architectural guardrails through design and peer reviews.
• Identify and challenge designs that introduce unnecessary operational, security, or cost risk, proposing pragmatic alternatives.

Skills

Azure public cloud

DevOps / Platform / SRE

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud security

Tools

Bicep

Terraform

ARM

Azure DevOps YAML

Job description

At the heart of our not-for-profit organisation is a commitment and a motivation to make the future-saving experience a simple one for our members. We champion fairness and simplicity, not profit-chasing. Imagine a financial adventure where everyone's a winner, fuelled by our exceptional service and brought to life by the fantastic individuals who work for us. We're a diverse employer with a flexible, hybrid working approach, ensuring everyone gets the opportunity to come to work and be the best version of themselves.

What You'll Be Doing

This is a new opportunity for a DevOps / Platform engineer to join the Platform Engineering function, delivering Azure-based solutions using modern cloud, CI/CD and automation practices.

Contribute to the performance of an effective and efficient IT function that supports the needs of People's Partnership companies and linked 3rd party organisations. Operate within the function’s processes and standard operating procedures and actively contribute to the achievement of the IT departments’ overall objectives.

• Design, build, and maintain reusable, versioned Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to deliver consistent and repeatable solutions.
• Evolve CI/CD platforms and pipelines supporting application and infrastructure delivery, ensuring they are secure and reliable.
• Enable teams through self-service pipelines and templates, improving developer experience while maintaining appropriate controls.
• Act as a technical advisor to engineering teams, providing hands‑on guidance in cloud architecture, DevOps practices, and Azure services.
• Influence solution design to balance delivery speed, reliability, security, and cost.
• Ensure solutions comply with design standards, governance controls, and architectural guardrails through design and peer reviews.
• Identify and challenge designs that introduce unnecessary operational, security, or cost risk, proposing pragmatic alternatives.

What We’re Looking For

• Azure public cloud experience (IaaS, PaaS, Serverless)
• Experience as a DevOps / Platform / SRE engineer
• Infrastructure as Code: Bicep (including modules), Terraform, or ARM or similar
• CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps YAML or similar
• Cloud security and hardening

What you can expect from us:

• Generous pension contributions with an employer contribution of up to 14%
• Real living wage
• Income protection, critical illness cover & death in service insurance
• Employee healthcare
• Parental and adoption leave
• Learning & development opportunities and study support
• Travel season ticket loans
• Volunteering days and charity payroll giving
• Onsite gym
• Social clubs and events

You can learn more about how we support our employees on our website

Disability Statement

People's Partnership is an equal opportunities employer. We believe everyone has the right to be treated fairly, with dignity and respect. We are committed to treating all our people (and all who apply for a role at People's Partnership) equally and enabling them to perform at their best and demonstrate what they have to offer. This role may support hybrid working. To make use of this arrangement, employees must have an appropriate home working environment, including a private workspace and reliable, secure high speed internet that enables them to perform their duties effectively. We are a disability committed employer, please let us know if you need any reasonable adjustments made to our recruitment process (application, selection assessments where relevant, and interview) to enable you to show us the best "you".