Senior DevOps Engineer

Microlise; Langley Mill; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

33 days holiday

Life Assurance

Costco membership

Employee wellbeing programs

Job summary

Microlise is seeking a DevOps Engineer to enhance CI/CD pipelines, observability and deployment automation across our software platforms. You will work with Software Engineering Managers, Tech Leads, Developers and Infrastructure teams to drive automation, reliability and operational maturity.

This 12-month fixed-term contract offers a chance to contribute to key business-critical projects using modern technologies in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing, implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in enterprise environments.
• Strong automation across build, deployment and environment management.
• Experience with source control, branching strategies and release management.
• Knowledge of Azure DevOps, Git-based workflows and YAML-driven automation.
• Scripting in PowerShell, Python or Bash.
• Infrastructure as Code with tools like Terraform/Ansible.
• Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift).
• Monitoring, logging and observability solution experience.
• Experience across Windows and Linux environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines for safe, repeatable releases.
• Automate build, deployment, configuration and environment mgmt tasks.
• Collaborate to improve branching strategies, build validation and release governance.
• Create and maintain Infrastructure as Code, deployment scripts and templates.
• Enhance observability with logging, monitoring and dashboards.
• Support reliability and operational readiness through proactive monitoring.
• Investigate deployment issues and implement sustainable fixes.
• Embed security, secrets management and vulnerability practices in pipelines.
• Maintain development, test and release environments for efficient delivery.
• Support disaster recovery and business continuity activities.
• Contribute to DevOps standards and communities of practice.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Azure DevOps

Git workflows

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Automation scripting

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

OpenShift

PowerShell

Python

Bash

Job description

As a DevOps Engineer, you will play a key role in improving the delivery, reliability and operational maturity of Microlise software products and platforms. Working closely with Software Engineering Managers, Technical Leads, Developers, Test Engineers and Infrastructure teams, you will help drive automation, consistency and operational excellence across our development and deployment processes.

You will be responsible for building and enhancing CI/CD pipelines, improving observability, automating infrastructure and deployment activities, and ensuring our teams can release software safely, reliably and efficiently. Through collaboration and continuous improvement, you will help reduce deployment risk, strengthen service resilience and enable engineering teams to deliver value to customers faster.

As a 12-month fixed-term contract, this role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on key business-critical projects while working with modern technologies and a highly collaborative engineering team.

What you will be doing:

• Designing, maintaining and improving CI/CD pipelines that support safe, repeatable and auditable software releases.
• Automating build, deployment, configuration and environment management activities to reduce manual effort and improve delivery efficiency.
• Working with engineering teams to improve branching strategies, build validation, deployment readiness and release governance processes.
• Creating and maintaining Infrastructure as Code, deployment scripts, reusable templates and configuration standards.
• Enhancing observability through logging, monitoring, alerting, dashboards and operational telemetry.
• Supporting service reliability, resilience and operational readiness through proactive monitoring and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Investigating deployment failures, incidents and recurring operational issues, identifying root causes and implementing sustainable improvements.
• Embedding security, access control, secrets management and vulnerability management practices within delivery pipelines and deployment processes.
• Maintaining and improving development, test and release environments to support efficient software delivery.
• Supporting disaster recovery, business continuity and operational resilience activities.
• Contributing to DevOps standards, best practices and communities of practice, helping teams adopt consistent and scalable ways of working.
• Using operational and delivery metrics to identify opportunities for improvement and demonstrate measurable business value.

What we are looking for:

• Proven experience designing, implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines within enterprise environments.
• Strong automation experience across build, deployment, configuration and environment management activities.
• Experience working with source control, branching strategies, release management and modern software delivery practices.
• Strong knowledge of Azure DevOps, Git-based workflows and YAML-driven pipeline automation.
• Experience with scripting and automation using technologies such as PowerShell, Python or Bash.
• Hands‑on experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools such as Terraform, Ansible or similar technologies.
• Experience supporting enterprise applications, APIs, databases and service‑oriented architectures.
• Knowledge of containerisation and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift and Helm.
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, alerting and observability solutions.
• A solid understanding of operational resilience, deployment risk management, incident investigation and continuous improvement practices.
• Experience working across both Windows and Linux environments.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with a passion for reducing manual effort through automation.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, operational and business teams.

Recruitment Process

For successful candidates, interviews will take place whilst the advert is still live, via telephone, in person and video conferencing; so don’t delay getting your application in!

As part of the Microlise interview process, you’ll need to attend an in‑person interview at our Head Office in Eastwood, Nottingham, for at least one of the interview stages.

Why Microlise?

When your groceries arrive at your door or you sign for your online parcel, one or more of our software, telematics or proof‑of‑purchase solutions has probably been used. Our solutions deliver value to many of the UK’s leading grocery retailers and food logistics providers as well as to household names including JCB, Eddie Stobart, Carlsberg, Waitrose, and Royal Mail.

Proudly Midlands‑based, Microlise has been operating for over thirty years, and recently became a Publicly Listed Company with shares trading on the London Stock Exchange. Our growing business is guided by our culture which drives the way we behave, the way we work, the way we connect with our customers, and the way we support and develop our people.

• Full support and training to ensure you are well equipped to succeed in your role
• Private medical insurance with Vitality Health including rewards for members such as: Apple Watch, discounted gym membership and many more
• 33 days holiday, including bank holidays, increasing year on year to 38 days, then further increases with length of service
• Life Assurance, 4 times your annual salary
• Free Costco membership, 20% off EE mobile and line rental, and other discounts with Reward Gateway
• Invested in employee health and well‑being with over 20 mental health first aiders in the business
• Employee Assistance Programmes
• Great staff extras: Easter eggs, yearly BBQ, Christmas gifts, annual staff awards and many more incentives
• Great Place to Work certified – We have been recognised by the global authority on workplace culture, so come be a part of our success
• Best Workplace in the UK for Development, Technology, Wellbeing and Women

Recruitment Agencies

Whilst we make every effort to directly source candidates for our live roles, we do have a very small preferred supplier list on the occasion we may require additional support. We therefore do not accept speculative CVs and/or cold calls to our Recruitment Team or hiring managers