Senior Azure DevOps Engineer — Data Platform & Releases

Enfint; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 Days annual leave

Private insurance coverage

Group Life Insurance 9x

Group Income Protection 75%

Gym membership

Employee Assistance Program

Volunteer time off

Pension contributions 15%

Job summary

Pacific Life Re, a global life reinsurance company, is undergoing a major back-office transformation. The Divisional Data Team develops and manages an enterprise-wide data solution with reporting services and governance.

The role focuses on owning Azure DevOps, building robust CI/CD pipelines for Snowflake and dbt, and coordinating end-to-end release processes with stakeholders. Strong emphasis on security, RBAC, and IaC across environments.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on expertise with Azure DevOps, including Repos, YAML Pipelines, Boards, Artifacts, self-hosted agents and service connections.
• Expert-level Git skills covering branching strategies, branch policies, pull request workflows, tagging, versioning, merging, rebasing, cherry-picking and rollback.
• Strong experience designing and running automated production deployment pipelines in controlled and audited environments.
• Demonstrable release management experience, including change control, release governance and stakeholder coordination.
• Experience with database change management tooling and state-based deployment approaches.
• Strong knowledge of Snowflake administration, RBAC, masking policies and cost/performance optimisation.
• Experience with dbt and SQL in a modern cloud data warehouse environment.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code, PowerShell, Bash or Python scripting, and monitoring and alerting tools.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for collaboration with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own Azure DevOps organisation and project configuration for the Divisional Data Team; manage permissions and access models across repositories, pipelines and libraries.
• Design, build and maintain YAML-based CI/CD pipelines for Snowflake SQL, dbt models, and supporting scripts.
• Own database change management and state-based deployment across development, SIT, UAT and production.
• Maintain reproducible environments and IaC across environments; ensure rollback and recovery mechanisms are in place.
• Coordinate with delivery, testing and business stakeholders; chair change advisory and release forums.

Skills

Azure DevOps

Git

CI/CD

Release management

Database change management

Snowflake

dbt

SQL

IaC scripting

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Monitoring & alerting

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Streamlit

Azure DevOps

Job description

Pacific Life Re, a global life reinsurance company, is undergoing a major back-office transformation. The Divisional Data Team develops and manages an enterprise-wide data solution with reporting services and governance.

The role focuses on owning Azure DevOps, building robust CI/CD pipelines for Snowflake and dbt, and coordinating end-to-end release processes with stakeholders. Strong emphasis on security, RBAC, and IaC across environments.