Senior DevOps Engineer: Azure & OpenShift Platform Lead

Experis; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Experis is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to lead OpenShift IaC development and Azure platform automation within a large enterprise environment. You will define standards, govern DevOps practices, and drive platform reliability across multi-region deployments.

The role requires strong Azure, Kubernetes, and OpenShift expertise, plus experience building enterprise CI/CD pipelines and secure, observable infrastructures. Derby-based with hybrid onsite work.

Qualifications

• Strong experience administering Microsoft Azure environments.
• Extensive experience with Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) and/or OpenShift Container Platform.
• Proven expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) development.
• Strong Kubernetes and OpenShift troubleshooting skills.
• Experience designing and maintaining enterprise-scale CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of cloud security and secure delivery practices.
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and observability solutions.
• Ability to define technical standards, governance, and reusable deployment frameworks.
• Experience working within large-scale enterprise transformation programmes.
• Desirable: experience within highly regulated environments.
• Desirable: knowledge of enterprise asset management platforms such as Maximo.
• Desirable: experience supporting international deployments and multi-region cloud environments.
• Desirable: familiarity with DevSecOps principles and tooling.
• Desirable: previous experience working within engineering, manufacturing, aerospace, or defence sectors.

Responsibilities

• Lead OpenShift Infrastructure as Code (IaC) development and automation initiatives.
• Design and implement Azure platform automation solutions.
• Develop and maintain reusable deployment patterns and standards.
• Own technical governance and best practices across the DevOps function.
• Drive OpenShift architecture, platform automation, and infrastructure delivery.
• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines and deployment orchestration.
• Support Kubernetes and OpenShift platform troubleshooting and optimisation.
• Deliver secure and compliant infrastructure solutions.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and observability tooling across environments.
• Collaborate with engineering, architecture, and delivery teams to improve deployment efficiency and platform reliability.
• Champion automation-first approaches to infrastructure and application deployment.

Tools

Azure

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Terraform

GitHub

CI/CD

DevOps

DevSecOps

Security

Cloud

Monitoring

Logging

Job description

Experis is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to lead OpenShift IaC development and Azure platform automation within a large enterprise environment. You will define standards, govern DevOps practices, and drive platform reliability across multi-region deployments.

The role requires strong Azure, Kubernetes, and OpenShift expertise, plus experience building enterprise CI/CD pipelines and secure, observable infrastructures. Derby-based with hybrid onsite work.