Senior DevOps Engineer (Azure)

Leicester Hybrid (3 days onsite)
£65,000 £71,000 DOE No sponsorship available

VIQU have partnered with a large, high-growth UK technology business recognised for its constant innovation and fast-paced engineering culture. The organisation is investing heavily in modern DevOps, cloud transformation, and automation to support the rapid scaling of its digital products.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you ll join a team that works closely with development and product groups, enabling smooth delivery pipelines, evolving cloud infrastructure, and driving continuous improvement across engineering practices. This is an environment that encourages experimentation, new ideas, and the freedom to reshape how things are done.

You ll play a key part in the organisation s transition from on-premise platforms to Azure, ensuring robust CI/CD processes, automated environment builds, and secure, scalable infrastructure. Expect a mix of greenfield innovation and the challenge of modernising legacy systems.

Key responsibilities include:

• Automating build and deployment of Dev/Test/Pre-Prod/Production environments

• Owning CI/CD development (YAML), automated testing and environment governance

• Supporting on-prem to Azure migration projects

• Managing application source code, branching strategies, and repositories

• Creating secure data refresh processes

• Working with monitoring tools for diagnostics and performance tuning

• Setting up IIS/Node.js web servers, NuGet/NPM repos

• Identifying opportunities to streamline and automate departmental processes

• Working closely with auditing and security teams to ensure compliance

• Producing documentation on environments and infrastructure

(Core technologies referenced from the JD)

• Azure Cloud, Azure DevOps (Boards, Repos, Artifacts, CI/CD)

• Terraform (IaC)

• Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker Compose

• Git, PowerShell, Bash

• .NET Framework/.NET Core, C#, Node.js, React

• SQL Server / NoSQL

• Windows & Linux servers

• Microservices, DevSecOps tooling (SonarCloud, CrowdStrike)

• Networking fundamentals

This role suits a DevOps engineer who enjoys autonomy, fast-moving environments, and the chance to influence engineering practices at scale.

Apply now to speak with VIQU IT in confidence. Or contact Aaron Chiverton via the VIQU IT website.
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