Senior Azure DevOps Engineer - Cloud, Security & Automation

84674Th44Metrea9999; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical Insurance

Subsidized gym membership

Electric Car scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Salary sacrificed pension scheme

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 platform/DevOps engineer to design and operate secure Azure platforms for UK programmes. You will shape Azure usage, DevOps, GitHub, automation, and DevSecOps to improve delivery speed, platform resilience, and developer experience.

You will mentor engineers, lead CI/CD standards, and collaborate with software, security, and support teams to implement scalable, cost-aware solutions in a defence environment.

Qualifications

• Senior platform/cloud/DevOps engineering with ownership of critical services.
• Extensive experience with Azure environments including networking, compute, storage, governance.
• Experience with Azure DevOps or GitHub for CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Proficiency with IaC using Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates or equivalent.
• Strong knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and AKS with automated deployment patterns.
• Exposure to DevSecOps: secure config, secrets management, vulnerability awareness, shift-left security.
• Troubleshooting across cloud infra, networking, identity, observability, pipelines and deployments.
• Ability to mentor engineers and influence technical direction across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate secure, scalable Azure platform services for UK programmes.
• Own CI/CD standards, pipelines, release controls, and deployment automation.
• Architect and manage Azure infrastructure using IaC; cover networking, identity, compute, storage, monitoring, governance.
• Develop container workloads with Docker and Azure Kubernetes Service; ensure resilient deployments.
• Define observability standards using Azure tools and third-party solutions.
• Apply DevSecOps practices including policy as code and secrets management.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and security issues to maintain reliable services.
• Advise teams on Azure architecture, automation, CI/CD, and best practices.
• Drive cost-aware decisions using metrics and capacity trends.
• Mentor engineers and promote platform engineering culture.

Skills

Azure

Azure DevOps

GitHub

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Docker

Kubernetes

DevSecOps

Security

Mentoring

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

Job description

Metrea is seeking a senior platform/DevOps engineer to design and operate secure Azure platforms for UK programmes. You will shape Azure usage, DevOps, GitHub, automation, and DevSecOps to improve delivery speed, platform resilience, and developer experience.

You will mentor engineers, lead CI/CD standards, and collaborate with software, security, and support teams to implement scalable, cost-aware solutions in a defence environment.