Senior DevOps Engineer: CI/CD, Automation & Observability

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

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.