Socium Recruitment
Senior Azure DevOps Engineer
Job Description
Salary: £65,000 - 75,000 per year
Requirements:- Strong commercial experience working specifically with Azure DevOps
- Deep hands-on experience designing and building YAML pipelines
- Experience creating CI/CD processes from scratch or significantly improving immature environments
- Strong understanding of branching strategies and release management
- Good knowledge of Azure services and cloud-based delivery environments
- Experience creating reusable templates and consistent engineering standards
- Evidence of owning DevOps processes across multiple development teams
- The confidence to influence software engineers and introduce new ways of working
- A practical approach that balances technical quality with what teams can actually adopt
- Experience with Bicep, Terraform or wider infrastructure tooling would be useful, but it is not the main focus
- Design and build Azure DevOps pipelines using YAML
- Create a consistent branching strategy across multiple development teams
- Improve and standardise release management processes
- Consolidate delivery tooling and processes within Azure DevOps
- Build reusable pipeline templates and deployment standards
- Develop mature CI/CD practices across development, test and production
- Work with engineering teams to implement and follow those standards
- Support teams through the transition and resolve pipeline and release issues
- Take ownership from initial design through to implementation and continuous improvement
- Azure
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- DevOps
- Support
- Terraform
More:
We are offering a senior Azure DevOps role with genuine ownership in Manchester on a hybrid working basis, with a salary of £70,000. We have four development teams working with different branching strategies and release processes, and we need someone to help us bring consistency, maturity and clearer standards to our CI/CD environment. The foundations are already in place, and we are looking for someone to assess what exists, define what good looks like, and build the templates, processes and ways of working that will make delivery easier for every engineering team.
last updated 30 week of 2026
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£75,000
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This salary is 7% below the UK median for Senior roles (£75,000/yr).
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