Senior Azure DevOps Engineer

London Business School; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous annual leave 27 days plus ?

USS pension

Onsite gym and swimming pool

Professional development opportunities

Cycle to work scheme

Wellbeing offering

Job summary

London Business School is seeking a Senior Azure DevOps Engineer to enhance our engineering capability and mature how we build, deploy, and operate technology across a diverse tech estate. You will lead design and delivery of CI/CD pipelines, promote IaC practices with Terraform, and embed security into pipelines while coaching teams to raise DevOps maturity.

You will collaborate with Architecture, Cyber Security, Delivery and operations to automate, secure, and reliably deploy services,

Qualifications

• Senior DevOps engineer with Azure experience.
• Strong CI/CD design and scalable deployment pipeline experience.
• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code, especially Terraform.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting in cloud environments.
• Ability to embed security and governance into cloud and pipeline configurations.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and improve Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines and deployment controls.
• Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Automate build, release, environment provisioning and ops processes.
• Develop DevOps standards, patterns and reusable approaches.
• Improve release quality, deployment reliability and rollback readiness.
• Strengthen monitoring, logging, alerting and observability.
• Embed security into pipelines and cloud infrastructure, including secrets management.
• Identify technical debt and transform it into prioritized improvements.
• Coordinate across teams to resolve dependencies and maturity gaps.
• Coach engineers to embed DevOps practices across teams.

Skills

Azure

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

Git

Security & Governance

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Help shape how engineering teams build, deploy and operate technology at London Business School.

The Role

London Business School is looking for a Senior Azure DevOps Engineer to strengthen our engineering capability and help us mature the way we build, deploy and operate technology across a varied technology estate.

This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who combines deep technical expertise with ownership, judgement and the ability to influence across multiple engineering and delivery teams.

You won't simply be handed a backlog of DevOps tasks. We're looking for someone who can assess where we are today, identify the areas that will make the biggest difference, recommend practical improvements and then take those improvements through to implementation and adoption.

Working closely with engineering teams, Architecture, Cyber Security, Delivery and operational support colleagues, you will help make our technology delivery more automated, secure, reliable and predictable.

Main Responsibilities

• Designing, implementing and improving Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, reusable YAML templates and deployment controls.

• Driving greater adoption of Infrastructure as Code, using technologies such as Terraform.

• Improving automation across build, release, environment provisioning and operational processes.

• Developing and evolving practical DevOps standards, patterns and reusable engineering approaches.

• Helping teams improve release quality, deployment reliability, rollback capability and operational readiness.

• Strengthening monitoring, logging, alerting and observability across applications and platforms.

• Embedding security into pipelines and cloud infrastructure, including secrets management, identity controls and automated security checks.

• Identifying technical debt, manual processes and recurring operational issues and turning them into prioritised improvement opportunities.

• Working across multiple teams to resolve dependencies and differing levels of DevOps maturity.

• Coaching and enabling engineers so that good DevOps practice becomes embedded across our teams rather than dependent on one individual.

• Translating agreed engineering priorities into a pragmatic, phased DevOps improvement roadmap and driving delivery against it.

Who We Are Looking For

You'll be an experienced DevOps or cloud engineer who is comfortable operating with a high degree of independence.

Alongside strong hands-on Azure expertise, you'll be able to demonstrate:

• Strong experience with Azure and Azure DevOps.

• Deep understanding of CI/CD and experience designing scalable deployment pipelines.

• Strong practical experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform.

• Experience implementing effective monitoring, logging and alerting.

• Good understanding of Git, branching strategies and modern release and deployment approaches.

• Experience embedding security and governance into cloud and pipeline configurations.

• The ability to take ambiguous technical problems from discovery through recommendation, implementation and adoption.

• Strong judgement when balancing delivery priorities, operational risk and longer-term engineering improvement.

• The confidence to challenge existing approaches constructively and recommend better alternatives.

• Experience influencing engineering standards and securing adoption across multiple teams.

• A collaborative approach and the ability to coach and enable other engineers.

• Azure DevOps Engineer Expert certification, or equivalent demonstrable experience, would be highly valued.

Benefits You Can Enjoy

• Generous annual leave of 27 days plus extra days between Christmas and New Year

• USS pension, 14.5% employer contribution (in return for employee enrolment and contribution)

• Free onsite gym and swimming pool

• Amazing range of professional development to support your career path

• Enhanced cycle to work scheme

• Wellbeing offering to support your physical, mental and financial health

At London Business School, we support Smart Working - a hybrid approach designed to help you achieve a healthy work-life balance while delivering the best outcomes for your role and the needs of our customers. All roles require a minimum of two days on campus each week to foster a vibrant, collaborative community.

For this role specifically, you will be expected to be on campus 3 days per week.

We operate with 'core hours' - 10:00-15:00 - to maximise opportunities for connection and collaboration across teams during the working day. Outside of these hours, you may still be required for meetings or collaboration based on your role and customer needs. Additionally, we offer Protected Time - a flexible, one-hour slot, within the working week dedicated to your learning and development, wellbeing, or focused, quiet work

Why London Business School?

London Business School; a global and vibrant business community based in three of the world’s most dynamic cities, London, Dubai and Riyadh. It's where extraordinary minds and diverse perspectives connect, to have a profound impact on the way the world does business and the way business impacts the world. We offer best in class hybrid learning to our students and participants, whilst creating a flexible, supportive and dynamic working environment for our people to excel in, whatever their location.

Our commitment to driving inclusion and belonging

We are a globally reaching institution, committed to creating tangible and sustainable change in driving inclusion & belonging within our School, education and society at large. We are dedicated to creating an environment where everyone in our community feels they belong and thrive. This is a key school priority, and we want everyone who joins LBS to feel respected, welcomed, and heard.

Candidates needing sponsorship should assess their eligibility for a Certificate of Sponsorship by evaluating their circumstances against the relevant criteria before applying.

Please note we start screening CVs and interviewing candidates from the start of a campaign. A successful candidate could progress to offer before the advertised closing date. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible if you are interested in any roles.

Competitive Salary dependent upon experience

Closing date: 22nd September 2026