Description
The Sr Associate - DevOps plays a central role in designing, building, and maintaining Davies' Azure cloud environment.
This role supports the organisation's cloud-first strategy, enabling scalable, secure, and automated delivery of modern platform services and helping accelerate the transition from on-premise infrastructure into cloud-native operations.
The Sr Associate - DevOps is responsible for delivering high-quality automation, infrastructure-as-code patterns, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud governance structures.
Key Responsibilities
Cloud Architecture, Design & Implementation
- Design, plan, and implement Azure cloud solutions with a strong focus on automation, IaC, and DevOps principles.
- Lead and deliver cloud platform projects, including systems architecture, proofs-of-concept, and production deployments.
- Support the transition of on-premise workloads into Azure, ensuring resilience, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Contribute to the development of cloud governance frameworks covering networking, identity, security, tagging, and operational processes.
Automation, Tooling & DevOps
- Build, maintain, and optimise Azure CI/CD pipelines (YAML-based), integrating automated testing and quality checks.
- Develop infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, ARM/Bicep, and Git-based workflows.
- Create and maintain scripts using PowerShell and AZ CLI to drive automation, repeatability, and operational efficiency.
- Ensure cloud environments follow best practices for monitoring, logging, backup, and disaster recovery.
Collaboration & Delivery
- Partner closely with .NET development teams to strengthen cloud-native development and deployment skills.
- Work alongside Application Architects and Security teams to ensure platform designs meet strategic and compliance requirements.
- Support Product Managers to ensure platform initiatives align with business objectives and delivery timelines.
- Provide technical input on solution designs, cloud patterns, and build/release strategies.
Support, Operations & Continuous Improvement
- Resolve cloud-related issues, ensuring reliability, performance, and security of Azure services.
- Identify opportunities for automation, optimisation, and governance improvement across the platform.
- Actively contribute to continuous improvement in DevOps maturity, engineering tooling, and cloud operating models.
- Maintain high-quality documentation covering cloud environments, patterns, and processes.
Coaching & Mentoring
- Provide coaching and mentorship to less experienced developers.
- Support skill development across teams using the SFIA-based capability framework.
- Lead by example in professionalism, technical discipline, and collaboration.
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
- Total experience: 8+ years
- Experience with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Sentinel, or similar cloud monitoring/security tools.
- Familiarity with containerisation (Docker, AKS) and modern deployment patterns.
- Exposure to cloud cost management and FinOps practices.
- Understanding of .NET development environments and build pipelines.
Essential Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience with Azure IaaS and PaaS services in a DevOps environment.
- Advanced experience building Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines (including YAML).
- Strong proficiency in Terraform (or comparable IaC tooling).
- Strong scripting skills using PowerShell and AZ CLI.
- Understanding of cloud governance, security, networking, identity, RBAC, and resource organisation.
- Knowledge of DevOps principles, including automation, observability, GitOps, and continuous delivery.
- Experience supporting cloud migrations from on-premise environments.