Senior DevOps Engineer

Microlise; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

33 days holiday

Costco membership

Mental health support

Employee Assistance Programme

Staff events & rewards

Great Place to Work certified

Best Workplace in the UK

Job summary

Microlise is seeking a DevOps Engineer to enhance CI/CD pipelines, automate infrastructure, and improve observability across software products and platforms. You will work with engineering, infrastructure and operations teams to deliver safe, reliable releases and strengthen deployment governance.

The role focuses on automation, continuous improvement, and embedding security practices within delivery pipelines, with a 12-month fixed-term contract.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in enterprise environments.
• Strong automation across build, deployment, configuration and environment management.
• Experience with source control, branching strategies, release management and modern software delivery practices.
• Knowledge of Azure DevOps, Git workflows and YAML-driven pipeline automation.
• Scripting in PowerShell, Python or Bash; IaC with Terraform/Ansible.

Responsibilities

• Design, maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines for safe, auditable releases.
• Automate build, deployment, configuration and env management to reduce manual effort.
• Improve branching, build validation, deployment readiness and release governance.
• Create and maintain IaC, deployment scripts, templates and standards.
• Enhance observability with logging, monitoring, alerting and dashboards.
• Support service reliability and operational readiness through monitoring.
• Investigate failures and incidents, identify root causes and implement fixes.
• Embed security, access control, secrets and vulnerability management in pipelines.
• Maintain development, test and release environments.
• Support disaster recovery and business continuity activities.
• Contribute to DevOps standards and communities of practice.
• Use metrics to identify improvements and demonstrate business value.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Automation

Git workflows

Azure DevOps

Scripting: PowerShell/Python/Bash

IaC: Terraform/Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Monitoring/Observability

Windows & Linux

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

OpenShift

Helm

Docker

Kubernetes

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.

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.

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, EddieStobart, 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: Free Amazon Prime, 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
• 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