DevOps Engineer

Cencora; Greater London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading animal health company in Greater London is seeking a talented DevOps Engineer to join their mission to improve the lives of animals. The ideal candidate will have substantial experience with Azure cloud platforms, DevOps practices, and networking principles. This role involves driving operational improvements and ensuring security of the platform. We offer competitive compensation, bonuses, and comprehensive benefits including a pension scheme and life assurance.

Benefits

Competitive base salary

Bonus scheme

Pension

Life Assurance

Employee Assistance Program

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in an operational role with Azure.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native services and best practices.
• Excellent understanding of networking principles.

Responsibilities

• Drive solutions for design, build, and operational aspects in Azure Cloud.
• Ensure alignment of design/execution with best practices.
• Continuously monitor and analyze security of the platform.

Skills

Azure cloud platform experience

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code

Networking principles

DevOps practices

Tools

Terraform

PowerShell

Docker

Jenkins

SQL

Job description

Salary : £35,000 - 70,000 per year

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience in an operational role with the Azure cloud platform as an engineer or other related technical cloud-focused role.
• Experience working with Microsoft Azure with knowledge of cloud-native services (Azure DNS, Application Gateway, Azure SQL Server, App Services, Blob Storage, Load Balancer, WAF) and best‑practices for working with technology.
• An understanding of technologies that underpin a DevOps approach to cloud migration and management, including but not exclusive to, Infrastructure‑as‑Code, Configuration‑as‑Code, Containerisation and Orchestration, Kubernetes, CI / CD, Test Automation using programming language like Terraform, PowerShell etc.
• Excellent understanding of networking principles (IP addressing, virtual networks, network security and networking models).
• Understanding of observability and site‑reliability principles (SLO’s, SLI’s) and working with engineering teams to improve the applications and platform.

Responsibilities

• As a DevOps Engineer, you’ll be joining the Cloud Engineering team working to drive solutions for design, build and operational aspects of our infrastructure in Azure Cloud. You will work closely with the engineering and technical support teams to proactively improve our offerings to our clients from a scalability, reliability and speed to market perspective.
• Skills and Responsibilities
• You will :
• Contribute to development and implementation of strategy related to cloud platforms and services to best serve the goals of the business.
• Ensure design / change (devops) and execution is aligned and working to best practices around infrastructure and security.
• Design and implementation of cloud platforms and services using automation and coding.
• Leverage orchestration and automation techniques to drive efficiency.
• Work with the team on critical analysis, problem solving for operational problems in the platform (logs, metrics, traces) and root cause analysis.
• Configure / build, maintenance and documentation of Azure cloud components.
• Continuously monitor and undertake security analysis of the platform using automated tools.
• Patch and maintain our Windows estate whilst overseeing the move to Linux based operating systems as standard for compute, data and ancillary services.
• Define, contribute and update standard operating procedures for all operational aspects of the platform.
• Be part of the OOH support rota in support of the services your team own and manage.

Technologies

• Azure
• CI / CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Docker
• Support
• Java
• JavaScript
• Jenkins
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• Network
• PowerShell
• SQL
• Security
• Terraform
• WAF
• Windows

Are you a DevOps Engineer who is looking to apply their skills in a rewarding industry? MWI Animal Health is looking for a Talented DevOps Engineer to join our mission to improve the lives of animals. In return, we offer a supportive environment, competitive base salary, bonus scheme and wider company benefits such pension, Life Assurance and an Employee Assistance Program.

last updated 52 week of 2025