Devops Engineer

Innova Recruitment Limited; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Private healthcare

Hybrid working

Job summary

Innova Recruitment Limited is seeking a DevOps Engineer in Manchester with a hybrid working model. The role focuses on owning platform engineering, reliability, and quality across engineering teams, advancing observability and automation, and maturing CI/CD practices.

You’ll collaborate with the CTO and Tech Leads to set standards, select tooling, and coach teams, enabling faster and more reliable software delivery with AI-assisted capabilities.

Qualifications

• Experience leading platform engineering, reliability, and quality across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the platform engineering practice across the business.
• Define engineering standards, tooling and best practice for platform engineering, DevOps and quality engineering.
• Lead the implementation of an observability strategy with telemetry, monitoring, dashboards and alerts.
• Improve Azure platform capabilities and increase in-house IaC ownership.
• Review and evolve the Playwright automation estate for modern testing practices.
• Optimize CI/CD pipelines to boost build performance and release confidence.
• Collaborate with Tech Leads to improve reliability, scalability and operational excellence across web and mobile platforms.
• Shape capabilities to support AI-assisted, spec-driven software delivery.

Skills

Platform engineering

Site Reliability

DevOps

Azure

IaC

CI/CD

Observability

Playwright

Coaching teams

AI-assisted delivery

Tools

Azure DevOps

Bicep

Terraform

Playwright

Datadog

New Relic

Azure Monitor

Kibana

Job description

DevOps Engineer

Manchester / Hybrid

£70,000-£80,000 + Benefits

Some engineers build products.

Others build the platform, tooling and engineering practices that allow every developer to deliver better software.

This opportunity sits firmly in the second category.

Our client is investing in its engineering capability as they continue to modernise its technology estate, and embrace AI-assisted software delivery. Reporting directly to the CTO, this is an opportunity to shape how platform engineering, reliability and quality evolve.

The Azure platform, Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD foundations are already established. The challenge is to take them further by introducing modern observability, improving engineering standards, evolving automation and enabling development teams to deliver software faster, more reliably and with greater confidence.

The opportunity

Working alongside the CTO and Tech Leads, you'll own the platform engineering practice across the business, acting as the technical authority for platform reliability, observability and engineering quality.

This isn't a role where you'll become the bottleneck or own every deployment. Instead, you'll define standards, select tooling, build reusable frameworks and coach development teams.

You’ll have genuine influence over technical direction, architecture and engineering culture while helping build the foundations for the next generation of agentic software delivery.

What you'll be doing

• Own the platform engineering practice
• Define engineering standards, tooling and best practice across platform engineering, DevOps and quality engineering.
• Lead the implementation of an observability strategy, introducing telemetry, monitoring, dashboards and alerting that provide meaningful insight into application and platform health.
• Improve Azure platform capabilities and help bring greater IaC ownership in-house.
• Review and help evolve the existing Playwright automation estate, enabling developers to take greater ownership of automated testing through modern practices.
• Optimise CI/CD pipelines, improving build performance, deployment speed and release confidence.
• Work alongside the Tech Lead to improve reliability, scalability and operational excellence across web and mobile platforms.
• Help shape the capability required to support AI-assisted, spec-driven software delivery.

What they're looking for

You’ll be an experienced Platform Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer or Senior DevOps Engineer who's comfortable influencing technical direction across multiple engineering teams.

You’ll ideally bring experience with:

• Microsoft Azure, including Azure DevOps and cloud-native services.
• Infrastructure as Code using Bicep, Terraform or similar.
• Designing and optimising CI/CD pipelines.
• Implementing observability platforms such as Datadog, New Relic, Azure Monitor, Kibana or similar.
• Modern automation frameworks including Playwright, or equivalent JS testing framework
• Coaching engineering teams and embedding platform engineering best practice.
• Supporting large-scale, customer-facing digital platforms.

Experience with .NET, React and TypeScript would be beneficial, although application development is not the focus of the role.

Why join?

This is an opportunity to join at an exciting stage of their evolution.

You’ll influence platform strategy, modernise engineering practices, introduce meaningful observability and help create an environment where development teams can build and release software with confidence.

Salary, up to £80k + benefits inc. bonus and private healthcare.

They value in-person collaboration and operate a hybrid working model of three days per week in new offices in Central Manchester.

If you enjoy improving platforms, enabling engineers and solving challenges at scale, this is a role where you'll have genuine ownership and visible impact