Senior DevOps Engineer

Salary: £43,000 - 83,000 per year

Requirements

• Extensive hands-on experience administering and supporting the Microsoft Azure platform and its technologies, including App Service, Virtual Machines, Storage Account, Key Vault, Networking and DNS
• Strong experience designing and deploying cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code techniques and best practices
• Extensive experience using GitHub and GitHub Actions for source control, automation and CI/CD delivery
• Strong experience creating, maintaining and troubleshooting YAML-based pipelines
• Strong experience designing, maintaining and optimising CI/CD processes and release automation
• Strong understanding of cloud security principles, monitoring, logging and governance within Azure
• Experience working within Agile delivery environments
• Excellent troubleshooting, stakeholder management and technical communication skills
• Experience with Kubernetes and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is desirable
• Experience with Docker is desirable
• Experience with PowerShell, Python or other automation scripting languages is desirable
• Experience implementing Azure security and compliance controls, including UK-based regulations, is desirable
• Experience with CMS frameworks such as Umbraco, WordPress and Orchard is desirable but not essential

Responsibilities

• Support and maintain our Azure cloud infrastructure, including testing and development environments
• Investigate, implement and document ways to automate and improve development and release processes, managing build and release pipelines within Azure DevOps
• Implement monitoring, alerting and remediation for production systems
• Support projects and provide technical knowledge and skills in process investigation, solution design, development and system testing
• Maintain required digital data storage such as databases and registers to required standards
• Review applications and infrastructure for compliance and auditing purposes, and action outcomes from those activities
• Work with our Development Team to test and examine code written by developers related to cloud infrastructure
• Oversee code releases and provide clear and concise release notes for stakeholders involved

Technologies

• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• CMS
• DevOps
• Docker
• GitHub
• Support
• Kubernetes
• Marketing
• PowerShell
• Python
• Security
• Umbraco
• WordPress
• Terraform

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We are AHDB, the independent, impartial public body that unlocks success in British agriculture. Funded by a levy from over 100,000 British producers in the beef, lamb, pork, dairy and cereals sectors, we support and champion farmers, growers and processors, often where no one else can or will. We share expert, evidence-based research and reports that inform on-farm decision making, promote British produce through domestic marketing campaigns, and identify and open new global export opportunities to help farm businesses grow. This Senior DevOps Engineer role sits within our Technology team on a hybrid basis, working two to three days per week from our headquarters in Coventry and the remainder remotely. We offer a 35-hour working week, 33 days annual leave plus one privilege day, life assurance cover, a market-leading defined contribution pension scheme, enhanced family leave, a paid volunteering day, an Employee Assistance Programme, excellent training and development opportunities, recognition awards, and Reward Gateway membership. We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and support flexible working opportunities.

last updated 34 week of 2026