DevOps Engineer

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Bristol, United Kingdom
Today
£65,000 – £75,000 pa

Salary

£65,000 – £75,000 pa

Posted
25 Sep 2026 (Today)

Cloud DevOps Engineer (Azure)

Salary: £65,000 - £75,000 + up to 15% bonus + profit share scheme

Location: Central Bristol - 3 days onsite / 2 days WFH

Design and build a new Azure cloud platform used by IT and Software Engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Build Azure landing zones, management structures, shared services and policy controls.
  • Establish cloud networking, including ingress/egress, private connectivity, DNS, firewalls and load balancing.
  • Develop reusable Terraform modules and deployment patterns.
  • Build and maintain GitHub CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and applications.
  • Support the infrastructure and deployment capability behind AI products.
  • Create monitoring and alerting for reliability, security, performance and cloud costs.
  • Support Azure Virtual Desktop environments.
  • Produce technical standards, documentation and reusable engineering patterns.
  • Mentor colleagues and lead DevOps work across projects and BAU.

Main Requirements:

  • Cloud infrastructure experience with a focus on Azure
  • Terraform experience, particularly reusable modules.
  • CI/CD experience across infrastructure and application delivery.
  • Cloud landing-zone experience covering identity, networking, policy, governance and shared services.
  • Cloud networking knowledge.
  • Monitoring, observability, vulnerability scanning, backup and recovery.
  • Experience supporting cloud-hosted applications alongside software teams.
  • ITIL/service-management understanding.

Benefits:

  • Up to 15% annual bonus
  • Company profit share scheme
  • Private healthcare
  • 25 days holiday with buy/sell options
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave

RSG Plc is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

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