Azure DevOps Engineer

Salary: £65,000 - 65,000 per year

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience running production Azure environments as a primary discipline, including App Services, Azure SQL, storage and networking fundamentals.
• Experience writing and maintaining CI/CD, build and deployment pipelines in Azure DevOps (YAML), including artifact management, controlled build configurations and pipeline variables.
• Regular use of infrastructure as code (Bicep, ARM or Terraform), with confident PowerShell and Azure CLI scripting skills.
• Strong understanding of secure-by-default platform design, including Key Vault, managed identities, RBAC and least privilege.
• Experience owning monitoring, backup and disaster recovery for a live service, including Application Insights, Log Analytics and incident response.
• Experience working in an Agile Scrum team and familiarity with its ceremonies and artefacts.
• Understanding of SQL Server sufficient to manage environment data, refreshes and test data safely in a relational database system.
• Desirable: Microsoft AZ-104 (Azure Administrator) or AZ-400 (DevOps Engineer Expert) certification.
• Desirable: Experience running or supporting Azure Service Bus, Azure Functions, Azure API Management, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Data Factory, Synapse or Microsoft Fabric.
• Desirable: Enough C#/.NET knowledge to read application code and debug a failing build alongside engineers.
• Desirable: Experience consolidating single-tenant, per-client deployments into a shared multi-tenant platform.
• Desirable: Experience with enterprise client security requirements, such as supplier security reviews, ISO 27001-style controls and penetration-test remediation.
• Desirable: Practical use of AI-assisted tooling in platform and pipeline work.

Responsibilities

• Provision, configure and maintain the Astral development, test, UAT/load and production environments, keeping them consistent, reproducible and documented through infrastructure as code.
• Manage environment refreshes and test data in line with data protection rules.
• Build, maintain and improve Azure DevOps build, test and release pipelines, including artifact management, controlled build configurations, pipeline variables and automated quality and security gates.
• Consolidate duplicated per-client pipelines toward a single deployment path as the platform moves to multi-tenancy.
• Plan and execute deployments through the environment chain to production, with a rehearsed rollback for every release.
• Support product go-lives and maintain a clear, communicated release calendar.
• Manage secrets and certificates, role-based access control, least privilege and platform patching; work with IT security on audit remediation and the security release plan.
• Own observability, alerting, backups and disaster recovery, including periodic disaster recovery tests.
• Lead responses to platform incidents and conduct blameless root-cause reviews.
• Monitor and optimise Azure spending across environments and clients, right-size resources and report on cost drivers.
• Keep runbooks, environment documentation and configuration records current, documenting work on the same day.
• Participate in Scrum ceremonies, the Innovation Forum and team events, and promptly help engineers with environment and pipeline needs.

Technologies:

• AI
• API
• ARM
• Architect
• Azure
• C#
• CI/CD
• DevOps
• Fabric
• Support
• PowerShell
• RBAC
• SQL
• Security
• Terraform
• ASP.NET
• Cloud
• PaaS

More:

We are IMSERV, one of the UKs leading energy data and metering specialists. We provide metering technology for electricity, gas and water, as well as energy data collection services. This role owns the Azure platform behind our Astral products, which are built, tested and run on it, supporting scalable, secure, multi-tenant SaaS for clients worldwide. You will be one of two DevOps Engineers sharing ownership of our Azure environments, CI/CD pipelines, releases, and platform security and cost posture, as part of Scrum teams working with Software Engineers, Testers and the Technical Architect. We offer 28 days holiday plus Bank Holidays, a buy-and-sell annual leave scheme, a bonus of up to 10%, an enhanced salary-sacrifice pension, life assurance of up to six times salary, a Simply Health plan with upgrade options, and a car salary-sacrifice scheme; some benefits are subject to length of service and terms and conditions. We are committed to an inclusive workplace and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If you are interested but do not meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply.

last updated 41 week of 2026