Location
  • Burton upon Trent
Job types
  • Permanent
Industry
  • Pharmaceuticals
Salary

£70k - 75k per year

Functions
  • DevOps
  • DevOps Engineer
Seniority
  • Mid-level
Technologies
  • Kubernetes
  • Microsoft Azure
Job reference

119234

DevOps Engineer

Salary: £75,000 + benefits

Location: Hybrid (2-3 days per week onsite)

Employment Type: Permanent

The Opportunity

We’re looking for a strong DevOps Engineer / Lead Cloud Engineer who can take ownership of our cloud platform, engineering standards, and deployment practices as we continue to scale a cloud‑native environment.

This role is ideal for someone who lives and breathes cloud engineering, infrastructure‑as‑code, automation, and DevOps culture. We are 90-95% cloud-based, with Azure as our primary platform – and AWS experience is a strong bonus.

You’ll design and maintain guardrails, build CI/CD pipelines, shape our cloud architecture, and ensure our engineering teams follow best practice across reliability, automation, security, and observability.

 

What You’ll Work On

  • Designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines across cloud services
  • Building reusable Terraform modules and infrastructure‑as‑code standards
  • Implementing guardrails, policies, and cloud governance frameworks
  • Supporting SRE practices: reliability, monitoring, metrics, automation
  • Working across engineering teams to define and maintain cloud architecture
  • Deploying and maintaining Kubernetes‑based workloads (containerisation focus)
  • Improving platform resilience, availability, and scalability
  • Ensuring best practice across DevOps, cloud operations, IaC, and automation
  • Working closely with product, infrastructure, engineering and security teams

 

What We’re Looking For

Must‑Haves

  • Strong experience as a DevOps Engineer / Cloud Engineer
  • Deep hands‑on capability with Azure (primary environment)
  • Strong experience designing/implementing CI/CD pipelines
  • Excellent Infrastructure‑as‑Code experience, preferably Terraform
  • Understanding of cloud architecture, patterns, and best practice
  • Experience setting up guardrails, policies, governance and controls
  • Containerisation experience with Kubernetes

Nice-to-Have

  • Exposure to AWS
  • SRE background: SLIs, SLOs, automation, observability
  • Experience standardising cloud estates at scale
  • Ability to influence teams and lead cloud direction

 

About You

You will excel in this role if you are:

  • Highly technical and comfortable leading cloud engineering direction
  • Passionate about DevOps culture and automation
  • A strong communicator who collaborates well across multiple teams
  • Happy shaping architecture as well as delivering hands-on work
  • Someone who enjoys responsibility, autonomy, and helping set standards

 

Why Join Us?

  • 90-95% cloud-native – modern environment, no legacy battles
  • Clear runway to modernise, automate, and enhance the cloud platform
  • Role has genuine influence across engineering and architecture
  • Supportive culture with room for progression into senior/lead roles
  • Great opportunity for someone stepping up into a cloud leadership space

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