Lead Site Reliability Engineer - Azure & CI/CD

Standard Life plc; Telford; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical cover

38 days annual leave

Excellent pension

Life assurance (12x salary)

Career breaks

Income protection

Volunteering days

Job summary

Standard Life plc is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to strengthen the Digital Engineering team. The role focuses on improving reliability of live digital services, Azure API platform integration, cloud infra, CI/CD, observability and deployment safety.

Hybrid roles span Birmingham, London, Telford, and Edinburgh with flexible work options. You will work with internal squads, partners and third parties to deliver practical engineering improvements and ensure operational readiness across

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a DevOps Lead, Senior DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer or hands-on tech lead.
• Strong practical Azure experience, including Azure DevOps or API platform capabilities.
• Hands-on Terraform, GitHub, CI/CD pipeline design, deployment automation.
• Knowledge of incident management, problem management and operational readiness.

Responsibilities

• Deliver immediate DevOps improvements across the Customer Digital Platform.
• Improve Azure API platform integration and cloud infrastructure.
• Strengthen CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps and automated testing.
• Support deployment safety, release readiness and operational readiness for customer-facing services.
• Apply reliability and SRE principles to improve availability and incident learning.

Skills

Azure

Terraform

GitHub Actions

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

SRE principles

Incident management

Job description

Standard Life plc is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to strengthen the Digital Engineering team. The role focuses on improving reliability of live digital services, Azure API platform integration, cloud infra, CI/CD, observability and deployment safety.

Hybrid roles span Birmingham, London, Telford, and Edinburgh with flexible work options. You will work with internal squads, partners and third parties to deliver practical engineering improvements and ensure operational readiness across