Azure DevOps Engineer

Your new company

A major public sector organisation is building a dedicated platform team to support a business-critical policing system used across the UK.

The environment combines complex Legacy technologies with modern DevOps practices, offering a unique opportunity to work on highly secure, large-scale systems that underpin frontline operational services.

Your new role

As a DevOps/Platform Engineer, you will play a key role in supporting and enhancing a complex application and database estate.

Working alongside development and database teams, you'll provide third-line support, implement infrastructure changes, improve automation, and help modernise deployment practices.

You'll be responsible for maintaining critical services across Oracle, Elasticsearch and Linux-based environments while driving improvements through CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.

Key responsibilities include:

• Supporting and maintaining production infrastructure and Legacy applications.
• Troubleshooting and resolving complex technical issues.
• Implementing and supporting CI/CD pipelines.
• Maintaining technical and operational documentation.
• Undertaking peer reviews and adhering to engineering best practices.
• Supporting Oracle and Elasticsearch platforms.
• Becoming a subject matter expert within your assigned service area.
• Contributing to platform improvements and automation initiatives.

What you'll need to succeed

To be successful, you'll have experience supporting enterprise infrastructure and applications within a DevOps, Platform Engineering or Infrastructure Engineering environment.

Essential skills:

• Experience supporting Legacy applications and infrastructure.
• CI/CD pipeline implementation and support.
• Nginx and Apache Tomcat/HTTP Server.
• Bash Scripting.
• Containerisation and virtualisation technologies.
• Oracle 11 administration, including RAC, RMAN and Partitioning.
• Elasticsearch support and administration.
• Experience working with Linux environments.
• Experience providing L3 support and incident resolution.

Experience with the following would be highly desirable:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Oracle Solaris.
• VMware ESX.
• Docker.
• Python.
• Ansible and/or Terraform.
• Jenkins.
• AWS.
• Git.
• Java SE 8.
• PL/SQL.
• Master Data Management platforms.

Security Clearance (Essential)

Due to the sensitive nature of this programme, candidates must hold active Security Clearance (SC) that has been used on a UK Government client engagement within the last 12 months.

Candidates must also hold active NPPV3 clearance, which must have been used within the last 6 months.

Unfortunately, candidates who do not meet both clearance requirements cannot be considered for these positions.

What you'll get in return

• Opportunity to work on a nationally important policing platform.
• Long-term programme with ongoing investment.
• Predominantly remote working arrangement.
• Exposure to modern DevOps tooling and practices within a complex technical estate.
• Training and knowledge transfer on specialist technologies.
• Opportunity to develop into a recognised subject matter expert.
• Occasional travel to customer locations following onboarding.