Senior Azure DevOps Engineer - Secure Cloud Automation

Ubds-Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

UBDS Group is seeking an experienced Senior Azure DevOps Engineer to design, build and improve secure, scalable cloud platforms and delivery pipelines for clients.

This hands-on role focuses on Azure, Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Bicep, CI/CD via Azure DevOps, and DevSecOps practices across delivery teams.

You will mentor engineers, contribute to automation standards, and help drive secure, reliable cloud solutions at pace.

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on experience delivering solutions within Microsoft Azure.
• Strong experience with Azure DevOps, including CI/CD pipelines, repositories and associated tooling.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform and/or Bicep.
• Experience designing and implementing automated cloud deployment pipelines.
• Strong understanding of Azure services, including networking, identity, compute, storage and security.
• Experience with Git and modern source-control practices.
• Strong understanding of DevOps and DevSecOps principles and practices.
• Experience with scripting and automation using PowerShell, Bash or Python.
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging and operational tooling within Azure environments.
• Understanding of cloud security principles, identity and access management, RBAC, secrets management and secure configuration.
• Experience troubleshooting complex infrastructure and deployment issues.
• Strong understanding of resilient, scalable and highly available cloud architecture.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain secure and scalable Azure cloud environments.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Bicep.
• Design, implement and optimise CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.
• Automate the provisioning, configuration and deployment of cloud infrastructure and services.
• Build reusable infrastructure modules, deployment patterns and engineering components.
• Implement automated testing, quality controls and security checks within deployment pipelines.
• Apply DevSecOps principles, embedding security throughout the development and deployment lifecycle.
• Work with Architects and engineering teams to translate solution designs into deployable cloud platforms and services.
• Support the implementation of Azure networking, identity, security, compute, storage and platform services.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting and observability across cloud environments.
• Troubleshoot complex platform, deployment and infrastructure issues.
• Improve reliability, scalability and operational performance through automation and engineering best practice.
• Support containerised workloads and modern application platforms where appropriate.
• Work within appropriate governance, security and compliance requirements, particularly within regulated and secure environments.
• Contribute to technical documentation, runbooks, design decisions and knowledge sharing.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to engineers within delivery teams.
• Identify opportunities to improve automation, engineering standards and reusable capability across UBDS Group.

Skills

Azure

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

Automation

DevSecOps

Git

Scripting

Agile

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

AKS

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure Monitor

Job description

UBDS Group is seeking an experienced Senior Azure DevOps Engineer to design, build and improve secure, scalable cloud platforms and delivery pipelines for clients.

This hands-on role focuses on Azure, Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Bicep, CI/CD via Azure DevOps, and DevSecOps practices across delivery teams.

You will mentor engineers, contribute to automation standards, and help drive secure, reliable cloud solutions at pace.