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DevOps Developer
Location: Central London (Hybrid – 2–3 days per week in the office)
Salary: Competitive + Benefits
The Role
We are partnering with a leading organisation to recruit a DevOps Developer to join its Digital Technology DevOps team.
This is a hands-on development role responsible for delivering small to medium-sized application changes, enhancements, and fixes across digital platforms. Working within the DevOps team, you will bridge application development and live service operations. You will design, develop, test, deploy, and support maintainable solutions, while assisting DevOps Engineers with deployment pipelines, monitoring, incident investigation, operational tooling, and service improvement.
The role would suit a developer who is building their commercial experience, is eager to learn, and has a particular interest in Microsoft Azure, automation, observability, and reliable digital services.
Key Responsibilities
Development & Delivery
- Deliver small to medium-sized application changes, enhancements, defect fixes, and technical improvements.
- Design, develop, and maintain secure, performant, and supportable web applications and services using.NET and C#.
- Work across the full software development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, estimation, design, development, testing, deployment, hypercare, and break-fix support.
- Integrate applications with internal and external services using REST, SOAP, or GraphQL APIs where appropriate.
- Work with Product, Development, Test, Architecture, and Service teams to clarify requirements and deliver solutions that meet agreed standards.
Engineering Quality & Best Practices
- Write clean, maintainable, and testable code using established coding standards and design patterns.
- Use AI-assisted development tools appropriately while retaining accountability for security, correctness, and code quality.
- Create and maintain unit and integration tests and support automated testing within CI/CD pipelines.
- Submit changes for peer review and respond constructively to feedback.
- Participate in pairing and knowledge-sharing activities.
- Prepare clear technical documentation, support notes, and runbooks for solutions delivered.
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DevOps & Operational Support
- Assist DevOps Engineers with building, improving, and supporting deployment pipelines and routine automation across production and non-production environments.
- Support application deployment, release validation, monitoring, and optimisation using Azure DevOps, GitHub, Azure Portal, Azure App Service, and Dynatrace.
- Help investigate incidents, requests, and recurring application issues, contributing code fixes, diagnostic information, and root-cause analysis under guidance.
- Identify issues affecting service levels, application stability, security, or performance.
- Contribute practical improvements to alerts, dashboards, and runbooks.
- Ensure delivered changes are supportable in live environments, with appropriate documentation, testing, risk assessment, and handover.
- Participate in the shared out-of-hours on-call rota as an application support escalation point, in line with team arrangements.
Agile Collaboration & Continuous Improvement
- Participate in sprint planning, refinement, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
- Break work into manageable tasks and communicate progress, risks, and dependencies clearly.
- Collaborate with Development teams to reuse standards and components and seek specialist guidance where required.
- Keep technical knowledge current through training, practical delivery, and knowledge sharing.
- Develop knowledge across Azure, secure software engineering, and DevOps practices.
- Suggest incremental improvements to developer experience, application security, observability, performance, and team processes.
Key Performance Indicators
- Unreviewed Pull Requests – percentage of Pull Requests that are not peer reviewed.
- Median Cycle Time – how long it takes a ticket to move from an Active state to Done.
- Median Queue Time – the total time a ticket spends in a waiting state.
- Backflow Rate – percentage of state transitions that move tickets backwards through the development process.
- Completed Tickets – total number of tickets moved to a resolved or Done state.
- Operational contribution to incident and request resolution, successful changes, service improvements, and platform stability.
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Essential Skills & Experience
- Demonstrable experience in software development using C# and .NET.
- Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or TypeScript, with exposure to a modern front-end framework such as Vue or React.
- Understanding of APIs and experience consuming or building RESTful services.
- Foundational experience of Microsoft Azure services, such as App Service, Functions, Storage, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, and messaging services.
- Understanding of source control and collaborative development using Git and GitHub, including branches, pull requests, and code reviews.
- Exposure to CI/CD concepts and tools such as Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
- Ability to write and troubleshoot SQL queries, with awareness of NoSQL databases.
- Understanding of automated testing and experience writing unit or integration tests.
- Awareness of application security, data protection, accessibility, performance, and observability principles.
- Familiarity with Agile delivery methods such as Scrum or Kanban and backlog tools such as Azure DevOps or Jira.
- Ability to diagnose application issues using logs, traces, metrics, and monitoring information, with support from experienced colleagues.
- Curiosity, learning agility, and openness to code reviews and constructive feedback.
- Calm and methodical problem-solving approach when supporting live-service issues.
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to secure, reliable, and maintainable solutions.
Desirable Skills
- Interest in Infrastructure as Code, OpenTelemetry, OWASP, PowerShell, Postman, YAML, Pulumi, or Terraform.
- Exposure to containers, CDNs, networking, or IT service management.
- Experience with GraphQL or SOAP.
- Experience with Power Apps or Power Automate.
- Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot or equivalent.
- Further experience with Azure services and cloud-based application development.
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