Senior Azure DevOps Engineer: CI/CD, Terraform & AKS

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

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical Insurance

Gym membership plans

Electric Car scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Salary sacrificed pension

Free lunch on office days

Enhanced Parental Leave

30 days annual PTO plus bank holidays

Bonus Scheme

Personal development opportunities

Job summary

Metrea is seeking a Senior DevOps/Platform Engineer to lead the design and operation of secure, scalable Azure platforms for UK teams. You will shape how we use Azure, Azure DevOps, GitHub and automation to improve delivery speed and platform resilience.

The role combines hands-on engineering depth with technical leadership, mentoring others and delivering secure, compliant solutions in a defence environment. Hybrid work with 3 days in the London office.

Qualifications

• Senior DevOps/platform or infrastructure engineer with proven experience
• Strong design, deployment and operation of Microsoft Azure environments
• Hands-on with Azure DevOps or GitHub CI/CD pipelines, release controls and automation
• Infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates or similar
• Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes and AKS, with automated deployment patterns
• Experience implementing DevSecOps controls across infra, pipelines and software supply chain
• Experience building AI-assisted or agentic development workflows with model APIs/LLMs
• Troubleshooting across cloud infra, networking, observability and delivery
• Ability to influence technical direction and mentor engineers across teams

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and operate secure, scalable Azure platform services
• Architect Azure infrastructure via code covering networking, identity, compute and storage
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps and GitHub
• Develop secure deployment patterns for AI-enabled workflows and model APIs
• Deploy and secure AI platform components with proper access controls and secrets management
• Build containerised workloads using Docker and AKS with repeatable deployments
• Implement DevSecOps controls and supply-chain security practices
• Establish monitoring, logging, and health reporting across platforms
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and production issues
• Mentor engineers and promote reusable, self-service tooling

Skills

Senior DevOps

Platform engineering

Cloud engineering

Azure

DevSecOps

CI/CD pipelines

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure DevOps

GitHub

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

AKS

Job description

Metrea is seeking a Senior DevOps/Platform Engineer to lead the design and operation of secure, scalable Azure platforms for UK teams. You will shape how we use Azure, Azure DevOps, GitHub and automation to improve delivery speed and platform resilience.

The role combines hands-on engineering depth with technical leadership, mentoring others and delivering secure, compliant solutions in a defence environment. Hybrid work with 3 days in the London office.