Senior DevOps Engineer

UK Export Finance; Leeds; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A government agency in the UK seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead modernization efforts in cloud engineering. You will design and maintain scalable cloud-native solutions, drive CI/CD processes, and mentor engineers within multidisciplinary teams. The ideal candidate champions diversity and inclusion, fostering a supportive culture for all engineers. Join us to contribute to impactful DevOps solutions enhancing our customer service delivery while embracing a values-driven DevOps culture.

Qualifications

• Experience in modern DevOps practices and Azure cloud environments.
• Ability to design and maintain secure, resilient cloud-native solutions.
• Expertise in creating CI/CD pipelines and automation through Infrastructure as Code.

Responsibilities

• Shape and evolve DevOps practices across Azure.
• Troubleshoot complex operational issues to strengthen service reliability.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to best practice frameworks.

Skills

DevOps practices

Azure cloud environments

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD pipelines

Team collaboration

Diversity and inclusion advocacy

Tools

GitHub Actions

Azure Pipelines

BICEP

ARM

Terraform

Job description

Are you passionate about modern DevOps, cloud engineering and building high‑performing digital services that make a real difference? UKEF is on an exciting journey to become a truly customer‑centric, digitally enabled organisation — and we want you to be part of it.

We’re transforming how we serve our customers by making our services faster, simpler, more accessible, and more intuitive. Digital is at the heart of this ambition, and as our new Senior DevOps Engineer, you’ll play a key role in shaping the future of our platforms, tools, and engineering culture.

About the Role

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you’ll play a key role in shaping and evolving modern DevOps practices across our Azure cloud environments. You’ll design, build and maintain secure, resilient and scalable cloud native solutions, creating robust CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines), modernising our toolchains and driving an automation first mindset through Infrastructure as Code using BICEP, ARM or Terraform.

Working collaboratively within multidisciplinary, product focused teams, you\'ll help define engineering standards, troubleshoot complex operational issues and strengthen service reliability across platforms such as Azure Container Apps, Functions, Logic Apps, Key Vault and App Services. As a technical leader and mentor, you\'ll guide engineers, contribute to best practice frameworks and play a key role in incident response and continual improvement.

Beyond your engineering expertise, you\'ll be a visible champion for diversity and inclusion, fostering a culture where every engineer can thrive and driving a DevOps culture grounded in ownership, reliability and continuous improvement.

If you’re excited by building inclusive teams, championing modern engineering excellence, and delivering impactful DevOps solutions—we’d love to hear from you.

To find out more about the role, working at UK Export Finance and the Civil Service please click on Apply.