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Microsoft DevOps Engineer
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Microsoft DevOps Engineer
The Microsoft DevOps Engineer designs, implements, and supports secure, resilient, and automated Microsoft Azure platforms. The role owns CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, cloud operations, monitoring, and continuous improvement, working closely with infrastructure, security, application, and project teams to accelerate reliable technology delivery.
Key Responsibilities
Azure Cloud Engineering
- Design, deploy, and manage Microsoft Azure environments in line with approved architecture and governance standards.
- Support Azure landing zones, networking, compute, storage, backup, and disaster recovery services.
- Optimise cloud platform performance, resilience, capacity, and cost.
DevOps & Automation
- Design and maintain Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines using reusable YAML templates.
- Automate infrastructure and application deployment using Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates.
- Manage Git repositories, branching controls, pull requests, artefact versioning, and release processes.
- Develop PowerShell, Azure CLI, and workflow automation to reduce manual operational effort.
Monitoring & Reliability
- Implement monitoring and alerting with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights.
- Investigate platform and deployment incidents, complete root cause analysis, and drive corrective actions.
- Maintain operational dashboards, service documentation, and platform health reporting.
Security & Compliance
- Embed DevSecOps controls, secure coding checks, secrets management, and vulnerability remediation into delivery pipelines.
- Apply least privilege, RBAC, Entra ID, Conditional Access, and Privileged Identity Management controls.
- Support security reviews, audits, and compliance requirements, including ISO 27001-aligned practices.
Collaboration & Improvement
- Partner with developers, infrastructure, security, data, and business teams to translate requirements into robust technical solutions.
- Contribute to Agile planning, technical design reviews, and release readiness activities.
- Maintain architecture diagrams, runbooks, standards, and knowledge articles.
- Identify and implement opportunities to improve reliability, delivery speed, and operational efficiency.
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Skills & Technologies
Cloud & Infrastructure Microsoft Azure
- Azure; Azure landing zones; virtual machines; storage; VNETs; NSGs; VPN; ExpressRoute; Azure Backup; Site Recovery; Key Vault; Azure Policy.
DevOps & CI/CD
- Azure DevOps Services; Azure Repos; Azure Pipelines; YAML; Git; branching and release strategies; artefact management; continuous integration and deployment.
Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform; Bicep; ARM templates; configuration management; reusable modules; environment standardisation.
Identity & Endpoint
- Microsoft Entra ID; Conditional Access; RBAC; PIM; MFA; SSO; Microsoft Intune and endpoint management.
Scripting & Integration
- PowerShell; Azure CLI; Bash; Python (desirable); REST APIs; automation runbooks; workflow integration.
Containers & Platforms
- Docker; Kubernetes; Azure Kubernetes Service; Azure Container Registry; cloud-native and microservices concepts.
Security & DevSecOps
- Security by design; secure SDLC; secrets management; vulnerability management; policy compliance; threat monitoring; ISO 27001 awareness.
Observability & Operations
- Azure Monitor; Log Analytics; Application Insights; incident management; root cause analysis; performance optimisation; SRE principles.
Ways of Working
- Agile and Scrum; stakeholder management; technical documentation; problem solving; knowledge sharing; vendor collaboration; continuous improvement.
Experience & Qualifications
- Three to five or more years of Azure, cloud engineering, or DevOps experience.
- Practical experience building and supporting Azure DevOps pipelines and Infrastructure as Code.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across cloud infrastructure, identity, networking, and deployment tooling.
- Experience working within Agile, change-controlled, and security-conscious enterprise environments.
- Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert, Azure Administrator Associate, or Azure Solutions Architect Expert is desirable.
- Terraform Associate and ITIL Foundation certifications are desirable.
- Experience designing and supporting enterprise database structures and data models.
- Strong understanding of relational database design principles, normalization, indexing, and data integrity.
- Experience with Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL Database administration.
- Knowledge of data platform architecture including transactional, reporting, and analytical workloads.
- Experience designing data integration solutions between ERP, CRM, HR, and business systems.
- Ability to create and maintain logical and physical data models, entity relationship diagrams (ERDs), and data dictionaries.
- Experience implementing data governance, security, retention, and auditing controls.
- Understanding of modern Microsoft data platforms, including Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Synapse Analytics, and Microsoft Fabric.
- Experience supporting reporting and analytics solutions using Power BI.
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Personal Attributes
- Proactive, methodical, and accountable, with a strong attention to detail.
- Clear communicator able to work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Automation-first mindset with a focus on reliability, security, and measurable improvement.
- Able to prioritise competing demands and operate effectively in a fast-paced environment.
Success Measures
- Reliable, repeatable, and auditable deployment pipelines.
- Reduced manual operational effort through automation and standardisation.
- Improved platform availability, security, resilience, and recovery readiness.
- Faster, safer delivery of infrastructure and application changes.
- Accurate documentation, effective knowledge transfer, and positive stakeholder feedback.
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Skills
Microsoft Azure
Azure DevOps
Terraform
Bicep
CI/CD
Infrastructure as Code
PowerShell
Azure CLI
Kubernetes
Docker
Microsoft Entra ID
SQL Server
Azure SQL Database
Agile
DevSecOps
Monitoring
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