Platform Architect & DevOps Admin (Azure / GitHub)

AVEVA; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 87,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Equal opportunity employer

Drug screening and background checks

Job summary

AVEVA is seeking a Software Development Platform Architect & Administrator to lead platform administration, governance, and security for Azure DevOps and GitHub. You will manage identities, tokens, and automation while improving CI/CD reliability and deployment speed across the SDLC.

Hybrid work supported, with comprehensive security tooling and collaboration with security teams. The role emphasizes scalable platform design, automation, and governance across enterprise environments, including

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience administering Azure DevOps and GitHub in an enterprise environment.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD concepts, pipelines, and automation workflows.
• Familiarity with SDLC methodologies and development lifecycle tooling.
• Experience managing service principals, tokens, and identity based automation.
• Understanding of IAM principles, including RBAC, least privilege, birthright, and credential hygiene.
• Ability to troubleshoot platform, pipeline, identity, integration issues, and REST APIs.
• Experience with security tooling such as code scanning, dependency management, or secrets detection.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
• Scripting experience (PowerShell, Bash, Python) for automation and identity governance.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain Azure DevOps and GitHub organizations, including projects, repositories, pipelines, permissions, and policies.
• Manage platform governance, including branch protections, environment controls, and repository standards.
• Support onboarding, configuration, and lifecycle management of development tools, integrations, and automation services.
• Manage and govern service principals, managed identities, and application registrations used across CI/CD and automation workflows.
• Enforce secure authentication and authorization patterns, including least privilege access, RBAC, and conditional access policies.
• Monitor and audit identity usage across platforms to detect anomalies, expired credentials, or misconfigurations.
• Partner with security teams to ensure compliance with enterprise identity standards and regulatory requirements.
• Build, maintain, and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines across Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.
• Improve build, test, and deployment workflows to increase reliability, repeatability, and speed.
• Promote best practices in automation, artifact management, and release engineering.
• Implement and maintain security tooling such as SAST, dependency scanning, secrets detection, and policy enforcement.
• Document standards, patterns, and platform configurations to support operational excellence.
• Evaluate new tools, integrations, and identity models to improve developer productivity and platform scalability.
• Identify opportunities to simplify workflows, reduce friction, and standardize platform usage across teams.

Skills

Azure DevOps

GitHub

CI/CD

IAM

RBAC

Scripting

PowerShell

Python

Bash

Security tooling

Tools

Terraform

ARM/Bicep

Azure CLI

GitHub Actions

ConductorOne

SailPoint

Job description

AVEVA is seeking a Software Development Platform Architect & Administrator to lead platform administration, governance, and security for Azure DevOps and GitHub. You will manage identities, tokens, and automation while improving CI/CD reliability and deployment speed across the SDLC.

Hybrid work supported, with comprehensive security tooling and collaboration with security teams. The role emphasizes scalable platform design, automation, and governance across enterprise environments, including