DevOps Engineer - Greenfield Azure and AI

Peaple Talent Ltd; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 64,000 - 86,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Modern tech stack

Career progression

Job summary

Peaple Talent Ltd. in Bristol is seeking a hands-on DevOps Engineer to design, build and scale cloud platform foundations with a core focus on Azure, delivering robust CI/CD and secure infrastructure.

The role requires 4+ years of DevOps experience, strong Terraform IaC skills, and GitHub-based pipelines. You will implement landing zones, Zero Trust networking, FinOps, monitoring, and AI workload support, while mentoring IT Ops and Software Engineering teams in a hybrid work setup.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of hands-on DevOps or infrastructure automation experience.
• Strong Terraform experience for reusable IaC modules.
• Hands-on CI/CD pipelines experience, primarily with GitHub.
• Solid Azure experience (landing zones, networking, Zero Trust) or AWS/GCP equivalent.
• Understanding of ITIL/ITSM and software development lifecycle.
• Knowledge of FinOps, monitoring/observability, and security controls.
• Desirable: AI/data workloads or Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and build Azure landing zones and central platform patterns.
• Develop and maintain IaC modules using Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with Software Engineering on AI workloads and AVD environments.
• Implement monitoring, Zero Trust networking, and FinOps practices.
• Provide technical guidance to upskill IT Ops and Software Engineering teams.
• Participate in a monthly server maintenance window.

Skills

DevOps expertise

ITIL/ITSM

FinOps

Security controls

Cloud platforms

AI/data workloads

Zero Trust

Networking basics

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

DevOps Engineer - Greenfield Azure and AI

Salary: £75,000 per year

Location: Bristol (Hybrid)

Type: Full-Time, Permanent

Peaple Talent are partnered with a leading national professional services firm to recruit a hands-on DevOps Engineer for their Bristol office.

Following continuous growth and ongoing investment in cloud and AI capabilities, our client is strengthening their IT Operations function. The successful candidate will be pivotal in designing, building, and scaling the cloud platform foundations used across their IT and Software Engineering teams, with a core focus on their new Azure environment.

Requirements

• Strong commercial experience (4+ years) delivering DevOps, cloud platform, or infrastructure automation outcomes.
• Deep expertise in Terraform for reusable IaC modules and deployment patterns.
• Hands-on proficiency in building CI/CD pipelines (principally GitHub).
• Solid background in Azure (or AWS/GCP), including landing zones, networking (DNS, firewalls, load balancing), and Zero Trust principles.
• Practical understanding of ITIL/ITSM processes and the software development lifecycle.
• Knowledge of cloud financial management (FinOps), monitoring/observability, and security controls.
• Desirable: Experience supporting AI/data workloads or Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) environments.

Responsibilities

• Cloud Platform Engineering: Design and build landing zones, management structures, identity, policy controls, and centralized ingress/egress patterns for a primary Azure (and supporting AWS) platform.
• IaC & Automation: Develop reusable Infrastructure as Code modules using Terraform as the primary tech, and build/maintain robust CI/CD pipelines via GitHub.
• AI & EUC Enablement: Partner with Software Engineering to build deployment capabilities for AI workloads, and assist End User Computing with automated Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) environments.
• Security & FinOps: Implement monitoring, Zero Trust networking, vulnerability controls, and FinOps practices (cost allocation, tagging, budgeting, and optimisation).
• Operations & Mentorship: Apply ITIL principles to service management and change/incident processes, providing technical guidance to upskill wider IT Ops and Software Engineering teams. (Note: includes participation in a monthly Saturday server maintenance window).

What's on Offer

• Hybrid working setup with flexibility.
• Modern tech stack focusing on Azure, Terraform, GitHub, and AI capabilities.
• Structured internal progression and cross-team coaching culture.