DevOps Engineer

Savant Recruitment Experts; England; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Savant Recruitment Experts is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to drive modernisation of CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure across a complex tech estate. You will shape reliable deployment practices and champion automation and security in delivery workflows.

In this hands-on role, you will lead Azure DevOps and IaC initiatives using Terraform and ARM/Bicep, define standards, and collaborate with Architecture, Engineering and Security teams to improve resilience and observability

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain scalable Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, including reusable YAML templates.
• Define and evolve DevOps standards, patterns and best practices across delivery teams.
• Lead Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, ARM/Bicep or equivalent.
• Drive automation-first approaches, reducing manual release and environment-provisioning effort.
• Standardise branching, release and deployment strategies and improve deployment reliability.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting and observability frameworks.
• Improve system resilience, recovery capability and operational readiness.
• Embed DevSecOps, security controls, secrets management, identity and least-privilege principles into pipelines and infrastructure.
• Reduce configuration drift and technical debt through automation and repeatable provisioning.
• Support containerisation and modern deployment models where appropriate.
• Work closely with Architecture, Engineering, Delivery, Cyber Security and BAU teams.
• Proactively identify improvement opportunities and drive initiatives from discovery through implementation and adoption.
• Strong hands-on experience with Azure and Azure DevOps.
• Deep understanding of CI/CD and experience designing scalable pipelines.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience, particularly Terraform and/or ARM/Bicep.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting and observability.
• Strong knowledge of Git branching, version control and release/deployment strategies
• Experience embedding security into cloud and pipeline configurations
• Proven ability to work independently and solve ambiguous technical and delivery problems.
• Experience influencing engineering standards and practices across multiple teams.
• Strong planning, prioritisation, stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Experience coaching and enabling other engineers.
• Experience with containerisation and modern deployment models
• Experience modernising legacy release processes and introducing automation incrementally.
• Experience working across mixed technology estates with different levels of DevOps maturity.
• Experience developing DevOps maturity measures, baselines or improvement roadmaps.
• Azure DevOps Engineer Expert certification or equivalent demonstrable experience.

Skills

Azure

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

ARM/Bicep

DevSecOps

Git branching

Version control

Secrets management

Security in cloud

Automation

Tools

Terraform

ARM/Bicep

Job description

NO SPONSORSHIP AVAILABLE

We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer with strong hands-on expertise across Azure, Azure DevOps, CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code to shape and continuously improve DevOps practices across a complex technology estate. You will operate with a high degree of autonomy, driving a pragmatic DevOps improvement roadmap, modernising delivery processes and working across multiple teams to improve automation, security, reliability and operational readiness.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain scalable Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, including reusable YAML templates.
• Define and evolve DevOps standards, patterns and best practices across delivery teams.
• Lead Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, ARM/Bicep or equivalent.
• Drive automation-first approaches, reducing manual release and environment-provisioning effort.
• Standardise branching, release and deployment strategies and improve deployment reliability.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting and observability frameworks.
• Improve system resilience, recovery capability and operational readiness.
• Embed DevSecOps, security controls, secrets management, identity and least-privilege principles into pipelines and infrastructure.
• Reduce configuration drift and technical debt through automation and repeatable provisioning.
• Support containerisation and modern deployment models where appropriate.
• Work closely with Architecture, Engineering, Delivery, Cyber Security and BAU teams.
• Proactively identify improvement opportunities and drive initiatives from discovery through implementation and adoption.
• Strong hands-on experience with Azure and Azure DevOps.
• Deep understanding of CI/CD and experience designing scalable pipelines.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience, particularly Terraform and/or ARM/Bicep.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting and observability.
• Strong knowledge of Git branching, version control and release/deployment strategies.
• Experience embedding security into cloud and pipeline configurations.
• Proven ability to work independently and solve ambiguous technical and delivery problems.
• Experience influencing engineering standards and practices across multiple teams.
• Strong planning, prioritisation, stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Experience coaching and enabling other engineers.
• Experience with containerisation and modern deployment models.
• Experience modernising legacy release processes and introducing automation incrementally.
• Experience working across mixed technology estates with different levels of DevOps maturity.
• Experience developing DevOps maturity measures, baselines or improvement roadmaps.
• Azure DevOps Engineer Expert certification or equivalent demonstrable experience.