Senior DevOps Engineer

Intec Select Ltd; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Intec Select Ltd in London seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead automation and CI/CD efforts, shaping cloud platform engineering. You will design reusable YAML templates, mentor engineers, and drive secure, scalable Azure-based solutions across teams. A hybrid London role, with a salary up to £100,000 per year, offers chance to influence standards and delivery.

Role involves collaboration with architects, governance teams, and operations, plus out-of-hours support for critical incidents.

Qualifications

• Excellent knowledge of Azure DevOps, Boards, and YAML pipelines.
• Experience authoring reusable YAML pipeline templates.
• Hands-on Azure PaaS and SaaS services.
• Strong Terraform, Ansible and PowerShell skills.
• Experience with AKS, Docker and container orchestration.
• Understanding of Azure networking, VNets and load balancers.
• Experience with Azure policies, RBAC and cloud security best practices.
• Knowledge of security solutions such as WAF and DDoS mitigation.
• Monitoring and alerting implementation experience.
• Azure Landing Zone architecture and high-availability design.

Responsibilities

• Drive adoption of DevOps principles, automation and CI/CD across the organisation.
• Design, develop and maintain reusable Azure DevOps YAML templates and standardised processes.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineers across IT.
• Own technical projects and ensure delivery to standards.
• Collaborate with engineers and Enterprise Architects to design robust cloud solutions.
• Review CI/CD changes for quality, consistency and best practices.
• Develop self-service capabilities while maintaining governance and security.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, infrastructure and automation.
• Advise stakeholders on technical approaches, risks and business impacts.
• Support cloud infrastructure, networking, security and high-availability solutions.
• Maintain documentation and change records; inform stakeholders of significant changes.
• Participate in out-of-hours support rota for critical incidents.

Skills

Azure DevOps

CI/CD pipelines

Azure PaaS

Terraform

PowerShell

Docker

Kubernetes

RBAC

Cloud security

Network security

Tools

AKS

VMware

Cloudflare

WAF

Job description

Salary: £90,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements

• Excellent working knowledge of Azure DevOps, including Boards and Classic and YAML Pipelines.
• Strong experience authoring shared, reusable YAML pipeline templates.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure PaaS and SaaS services.
• Strong working knowledge of Terraform, Ansible and PowerShell.
• Experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Docker and container orchestration.
• A solid understanding of Azure networking, including VNets and load balancers.
• Experience implementing Azure policies, RBAC and cloud security best practices.
• Knowledge of security solutions such as WAF, bot protection and DDoS mitigation, including platforms such as Cloudflare.
• Practical experience implementing and improving monitoring and alerting solutions.
• Excellent knowledge of Azure Landing Zone architecture and Azure networking.
• Experience designing, delivering and supporting highly available cloud environments and disaster recovery solutions.
• Experience with Active Directory and VMware.
• Strong communication, analytical and problem-solving skills, with excellent attention to detail.
• The ability to mentor and coach colleagues, collaborate effectively and make independent technical decisions.

Responsibilities

• Drive the adoption of DevOps principles, automation and CI/CD practices across the organisation.
• Design, develop and maintain reusable Azure DevOps YAML pipeline templates and standardised processes.
• Provide technical leadership, guidance and mentoring to engineers across IT.
• Take ownership of technical projects, ensuring solutions are delivered to agreed standards.
• Collaborate with engineering teams and Enterprise Architects to design and implement robust cloud solutions.
• Review CI/CD pipeline changes, ensuring quality, consistency and adherence to best practices.
• Develop self-service capabilities, empowering engineering teams while maintaining governance and security standards.
• Identify opportunities to improve existing processes, infrastructure and automation.
• Advise stakeholders on technical approaches, risks, trade-offs and potential business impacts.
• Support cloud infrastructure, networking, security, monitoring and high-availability solutions.
• Maintain clear documentation and change records, keeping stakeholders informed of significant changes.
• Participate in an out-of-hours support rota for critical incidents.

Technologies

• Active Directory
• Ansible
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Docker
• Support
• Kubernetes
• PaaS
• PowerShell
• RBAC
• Security
• Terraform
• VMware
• WAF

More

We are seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join our growing Platform Engineering team in London. This is an exciting opportunity to influence engineering standards, improve cloud platforms, and drive the adoption of automation and CI/CD practices across a complex IT environment. Working closely with infrastructure, software engineering and architecture teams, you will play a key role in designing, delivering and supporting scalable, secure and resilient cloud solutions. This permanent role offers hybrid working in London, a salary of up to £100,000 per annum, and the chance to make a meaningful impact on cloud and platform engineering while combining hands-on engineering, architecture, automation and technical leadership.

last updated 38 week of 2026