Azure DevOps Engineer (Hybrid, Edinburgh)

THIS IS A HYBRID ROLE: PLEASE ONLY APPLY IF WITHIN COMMUTING DISTANCE OF EDINBURGH (WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY REJECTED OTHERWISE)

The Role:

• Make releases routine: fast, repeatable and safe.
• Own our CI/CD pipelines and Azure infrastructure as code.
• Keep test and production environments secure, observable and cost-effective.
• Work closely with developers and coach them on pipelines and Azure.
• Help the whole team own building and deploying software, rather than handing it off.

Key Responsibilities:

• CI/CD: design, build and maintain YAML pipelines in Azure DevOps, including build, automated test, release approvals and environment gates for test and production.
• Infrastructure as code: provision and manage Azure resources with Bicep or Terraform, versioned and deployed through pipelines rather than the portal.
• Azure platform: look after App Services, Azure Functions, Azure SQL Database, Storage, Key Vault, networking and, where used, containers (AKS or Container Apps).
• Security and access: manage Microsoft Entra ID access, managed identities, service connections and secrets; apply least privilege and keep secrets out of code.
• Monitoring and reliability: set up Azure Monitor, Application Insights and alerting; take part in incident response and blameless post-incident reviews.
• Database deployment: automate schema changes and migrations for Azure SQL safely across environments.
• Cost management: track and reduce Azure spend, for example by right-sizing resources and scheduling non-production environments.
• Ways of working: maintain branch policies, pull request checks and repository standards; document processes in the team wiki.
• Collaboration: support and coach developers on pipelines, Azure and good release practice.
• Scaling: design and configure services to scale with demand, using autoscaling for App Service, AKS or Functions, and load-test before major releases.
• Messaging and event-driven processing: build and support asynchronous workflows with Azure Service Bus, including queues, topics, retries and dead-letter handling.

Essential Skills and Experience

• [3+] years in a DevOps, platform or cloud engineering role.
• Hands-on experience building YAML pipelines in Azure DevOps (or GitHub Actions, with willingness to move to Azure DevOps).
• Strong working knowledge of core Azure services: App Service, Functions, Azure SQL, Storage, Key Vault, virtual networks.
• Infrastructure as code with Bicep, ARM or Terraform.
• Scripting in PowerShell and/or Bash; comfortable with the Azure CLI.
• Confident with Git, branching strategies and pull request workflows.
• Understanding of Entra ID, role-based access control and secure secret management.
• Clear communication: you can explain technical choices to developers and non-technical colleagues.

Desirable Skills:

• Containers: Docker, Azure Container Apps or AKS.
• Some knowledge of PostgreSQL.
• .NET build and deployment experience.
• Automated database deployment (SQL projects/DACPAC, EF Core migrations or Flyway).
• Observability with Application Insights, Log Analytics and KQL.
• Experience in financial services or another regulated environment (audit trails, change control, data protection).
• Microsoft certifications such as AZ-400 (DevOps Engineer Expert), AZ-104 (Azure Administrator) or AZ-305 (Solutions Architect).