Technology | 03-2-2026

Azure DevOps Lead

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Azure DevOps Lead to join a global transformation consultancy to play a pivotal role in delivering scalable, secure, and highly automated cloud platforms. This is an exciting opportunity to lead DevOps practices across cutting-edge Azure environments, working at the intersection of cloud engineering, automation, and modern application delivery.

The role offers hands-on technical ownership alongside strategic influence, partnering closely with development, QA, and operations teams to drive reliability, performance, and continuous improvement across the Azure estate.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines to accelerate development and deployment
• Build and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to provision secure, scalable, and highly available Azure infrastructure
• Automate operational processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention
• Collaborate with engineering, QA, and operations teams to enable seamless deployments and rapid issue resolution
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimise platforms and applications for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency
• Embed best practices for security, resilience, and compliance across cloud environments
• Contribute to system architecture and provide guidance on infrastructure and automation standards
• Stay current with emerging DevOps and cloud technologies, recommending and implementing innovative solutions

Experience Required:

• Proven experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, or similar roles.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Terraform for Infrastructure as Code.
• Proficiency in scripting and coding languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Extensive experience with Azure cloud services, including compute, storage, networking, and security.
• Demonstrated success designing and optimising CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar tools.
• Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure automation and orchestration.
• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools such as Azure Monitor, Grafana, or Prometheus.
• Proactive problem-solver able to work independently and take ownership.
• Strong communication skills, comfortable collaborating across technical and non-technical teams.

Desirable Experience:

• Exposure to containerisation and orchestration, including Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience across additional cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP
• Familiarity with configuration management and security tooling (e.g. Snyk, SonarQube, Qualys)
• Understanding of security best practices and compliance frameworks

This role is ideal for a DevOps leader who enjoys shaping cloud platforms, driving automation at scale, and enabling engineering teams to deliver at pace with confidence.

Our client operate hybrid working (3 days onsite). For further information please apply.

Follow us on LinkedIn for new job listings, industry insights and career advice.