Senior Azure DevOps Engineer

Location: Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

What success looks like in this role:

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior DataOps / Azure DevOps Engineer to join our core data platform team. This role combines Azure CloudOps, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD engineering with a strong focus on platform reliability, security, and automation.
The mission is to design, build, and operate a secure, scalable, and automated Databricks Lakehouse platform while ensuring enterprise‑grade DevOps practices across Azure environments.

This is a senior individual contributor position with high technical ownership and cross‑functional impact.

Key Responsibilities

1. Infrastructure as Code (Primary)

• Design, implement, and maintain Terraform‑based IaC for Azure and Databricks.
• Build reusable modules for multi‑environment and multi‑workspace deployments.
• Deploy and maintain Azure components:
  • Databricks workspaces & metastores
  • Unity Catalog policies
  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Networking, identity, and secure access patterns
• Implement policy‑as‑code, enforcing compliance, cluster policies, and guardrails.
• Ensure environments are secure‑by‑default, auditable, and automated end‑to‑end.

2. CI/CD Engineering (Primary)

• Design and operate CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.
• Build CI/CD frameworks for Databricks assets (DAB):
  • notebooks, packages, workflows, Delta Live Tables
• Implement automated validation: linting, tests, schema checks.
• Establish promotion strategies (dev → test → prod).
• Integrate Azure DevOps pipelines with Databricks Repos and enterprise Git workflows.

3. Platform Reliability & Operations

• Build monitoring and observability for Databricks workloads:
  • job health, performance, usage, cost signals
• Implement alerting and dashboards for proactive operational management.
• Design systems for:
  • safe rollback, retry strategies, idempotent operations
• Troubleshoot complex deployment and infrastructure issues.
• Improve performance, availability, and cost efficiency across the platform.

4. Governance, Security & Compliance

• Enforce enterprise governance via code:
  • RBAC / ABAC (Unity Catalog)
  • secret & credential management
  • encryption, access patterns
• Align automation with architecture and governance requirements.
• Ensure security and compliance standards are embedded in CI/CD and IaC.

5. Cross‑Functional Collaboration

• Partner with development, operations, data engineering, architecture, governance, and security teams.
• Act as a technical advisor and subject‑matter expert for cloud and data platform automation.
• Reduce operational overhead by delivering self‑service tools and automation.

You will be successful in this role if you have:

Must‑Have

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, DataOps, or Platform Engineering
• Expert hands‑on experience with Terraform and IaC design
• Strong experience with Azure Cloud and Azure DevOps CI/CD
• Deep understanding of Databricks platform operations
• Strong scripting skills: Python, Bash, or PowerShell
• Solid software engineering fundamentals: testing, modular code, GitOps
• Strong troubleshooting and problem‑solving abilities
• Excellent communication & cross‑team collaboration skills

Nice‑to‑Have

• Experience with Delta Lake, DLT, Databricks SQL
• Familiarity with Azure monitoring/observability tooling
• Exposure to streaming or event‑driven architectures
• Experience supporting multi‑environment enterprise platforms

Location

Milton Keynes with flexible remote working and occasional client site visits

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