Role Summary
The Senior DevOps Engineer is a hands‑on engineer responsible for building, operating, and improving DevOps and CI/CD capabilities that enable product teams to deliver software reliably and at speed. This role focuses on implementation excellence, working closely with Development, QA, and Platform teams to automate delivery, improve reliability, strengthen security, and adopt AI‑assisted DevOps practices where they provide practical value.
Key Responsibilities
DevOps & CI/CD Implementation
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Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines aligned to team and organisational standards
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Apply automation‑first engineering practices across build, test, deploy, and release
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Act as a senior contributor supporting DevOps best practices within squads
CI/CD & Infrastructure Engineering
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Implement YAML‑based CI/CD pipelines and reusable pipeline components
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Apply Infrastructure as Code to provision and manage environments
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Support adoption of trunk‑based development and modern deployment patterns (Blue/Green, Canary)
Release & Operational Reliability
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Support deployment execution, release readiness, and rollback procedures
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Ensure services are observable and supportable in production
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Investigate release and operational issues and contribute to post‑release improvements
AI‑Assisted DevOps (Applied)
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Use AI‑assisted DevOps tools to improve productivity and troubleshooting, including: Pipeline failure analysis and remediation suggestions, AI‑assisted reviews for pipelines, infrastructure, and configuration, Log and metric‑based issue investigation
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Contribute to automation and scripting that integrates AI capabilities into DevOps workflows
Cloud & DevSecOps
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Build and operate infrastructure on Azure (primary) and AWS
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Implement basic DevSecOps practices, including secrets management and policy controls
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Apply sound understanding of cloud security, networking, and enterprise environments
Collaboration & Mentorship
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Collaborate effectively with engineers, testers, and platform teams
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Support and mentor junior DevOps and software engineers
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Contribute to documentation, standards, and shared tooling
Technologies & Frameworks
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CI/CD: Azure DevOps (YAML & Classic), Jenkins, GitHub Actions
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Cloud & IaC: Azure, AWS, Terraform, ARM/Bicep
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Containers & Platform: Docker, Microservices, Kubernetes (desirable)
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Automation: PowerShell, Bash
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AI / AIOps: AI‑assisted DevOps and observability tools
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Security & Data: DevSecOps basics, networking, MS SQL, Windows/.NET
