Senior DevOps Engineer

We are currently recruiting for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Technology team on a hybrid basis, working two to three days per week from our headquarters in Coventry and the remainder remotely.

This is a key technical role responsible for the design, delivery and continuous improvement of AHDBs Azure cloud platform and Azure DevOps. Working closely with development, architecture and security teams, you will drive infrastructure automation, optimise CI/CD processes and ensure our cloud environments remain secure, resilient and scalable.

We are seeking an experienced DevOps professional with strong hands-on expertise in Microsoft Azure, Terraform, GitHub and YAML-based CI/CD pipelines. The ideal candidate has knowledge on Infrastructure as Code, automation and DevOps best practices, with the ability to provide technical leadership and contribute to the successful delivery of business-critical platforms and services in an Agile environment.

About AHDB

We are 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 the expert, evidence-based research and reports that inform on-farm decision making. We promote British produce to the UK public through domestic marketing campaigns, and we identify and open new global export opportunities to help farm businesses grow.

We help levy payers learn more, sell more and export more to remain sustainable and profitable. Together, we deliver the insights, the influence and the impact that farmers need.

• Support and maintain the Azure cloud infrastructure, including testing and development environment
• Investigate, implement and document ways to automate and improve development and release processes, managing build and release pipelines within Azure DevOps
• Implement monitoring/alerting/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, registers, completing and maintaining to required standards
• Review applications and infrastructure for compliance and auditing purposes, and actioning outcomes from those activities
• Work in conjunction with The Development Team to test and examine code written by developers related to cloud infrastructure and to oversee code releases and provide clear and concise release notes for stakeholders involved

• 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 scope 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
• 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) and experience with Docker and PowerShell, Python or other automation scripting languages is desirable
• Experience implementing Azure security and compliance controls, including UK-based regulations; experience with CMS frameworks such Umbraco, WordPress and Orchard but not essential