Azure DevOps Engineer

The salary for this role is £40,000 – £45,000.

Do you have extensive experience with Azure DevOps managing CI/CD pipelines and using IaC?                                             

Would you like the opportunity to shape LI's technical vision in line with industry best practice?

If so, we’d love to hear from you!

At Livestock Information Ltd, our mission is to be an outstanding service provider of livestock data, empowering government, industry, and farmers to effectively manage disease and infection control, whilst enhancing productivity and innovation in agriculture. To achieve this, we need great people, who share in our values.

As a Azure DevOps Engineer at LI, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing DevOps practices and pipelines in Azure cloud environments with a strong focus on Secure by Design principles and ensuring adherence to both the good industry and government security standards.  LI Azure cloud services are predominantly PaaS.

You will work closely with cross-functional teams including development, operations, and security to enable efficient, automated, secure, and scalable software delivery. This role also involves the management of both proactive and reactive maintenance, break-fix including our of hours on a shift basis, and optimising infrastructure performance and costs, while ensuring continuous service improvement.

You will support the live Azure platform, non-production environments, provide 3rd line support, provision client service requests, and help development teams by offering technical support and guidance.

Responsibilities

Your responsibilities will include:

• Break-Fix Support: Provide timely and efficient break-fix support to resolve system issues and minimise downtime in line with Service Level Agreements including out of hours.
• Proactive & Reactive Maintenance: Monitor system performance, availability, and capacity, perform infrastructure as code optimisation to ensure cost efficiency and reliable service.
• Security Hardening: Conduct regular vulnerability assessments, enforce security policies, and ensure patching and system hardening measures are applied, adhering to corporate Information Security Policies, Azure Security Benchmark and CIS controls.
• 3rd Line Support: Provide 3rd line support for live Azure Platform services, addressing complex issues and coordinating with internal teams to maintain service uptime.
• Client Service Requests: Provision and manage client service requests efficiently to support dynamic business needs.
• Collaboration with Development Teams: Support app development teams with technical guidance, ensuring robust and secure infrastructure is provided.
• Service Enhancements: Deliver and support the customer’s infrastructure requirements for service enhancements and new projects.
• Leverage deep expertise in Microsoft Azure’s IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings to design, implement, and manage cloud-based solutions that align with business and technical needs. Evaluate and recommend Azure cloud native components. Integrate Azure offerings to enhance system capabilities.
• Design, build, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines in collaboration with design partners, enabling faster, more reliable software releases.
• Implement best practices for version control, continuous integration, and code review processes.
• Use Infrastructure as Code tools such as Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates or Terraform to provision and manage Azure cloud resources. Ensure consistent, secure, and reproducible infrastructure deployments.
• Implement security best practices and align infrastructure with compliance frameworks such as the Azure Security Benchmark, CIS benchmark, NIST, NCSC.
• Configure real-time monitoring and alerting within Azure to gain insights into application performance and system health. Set up proactive alerts to respond to any incidents and anomalies promptly.
• Foster strong relationships with software development, testing, and operations teams to ensure seamless integration of DevOps practices.
• Effectively communicate progress, challenges, and solutions with team members, stakeholders, and management.
• Collaborate on continuous service improvement initiatives to optimise service delivery.
• Create and maintain clear and detailed documentation for deployment processes, architecture designs and configurations, and troubleshooting guidelines.
• Provide training and support to other team members to ensure adoption of best practices in DevOps.

Requirements

We are looking for someone with:

• Extensive experience in Azure DevOps managing CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Azure networking and zero trust methodologies primarily working in a live services support.
• Knowledge of infrastructure as code principles and tools such as Terraform and Azure Resource Manager (ARM), and experience in provisioning and managing cloud resources.
• Understanding of security best practices for cloud environments, and ability to implement security best practices and align infrastructure with compliance frameworks such as the Azure Security Benchmark, CIS benchmark, NIST, NCSC.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders and communicate technical concepts and solutions in a clear and concise manner.

Benefits

As an LI employee, you will be entitled to our company benefits which include:

• A fully remote and flexible working set up
• 33 days annual leave, inclusive of Bank Holidays
• 4 x annual salary Life Assurance
• Market leading pension scheme through Legal & General
• Enhanced Family Friendly Policies
• Excellent learning, training, and career development opportunities
• 24/7 access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• A diverse and inclusive culture where everyone is respected and valued

Application and Interview Process

To apply for this role, you will need to submit a CV and answer some pre-screening questions.

The interview and assessment process for this role will involve a telephone interview with our Talent Team, followed by a first stage and a final stage interview. Interviews will be conducted either remotely via MS Teams or face to face.

If we need to make a reasonable adjustment so that you can complete your application, please contact us as soon as possible by emailing talent@livestockinformation.org.uk before the closing date to discuss your needs.

Values

We approach our work with TACT; we are Transparent, Accountable, Committed and we work as a Team.

We are transparent together, embracing honesty and building trust. We are accountable to the industry and strive for the best possible solutions for the communities we serve. We drive change with passion, commitment and enthusiasm to deliver a great service to the livestock industry. We work kindly and cohesively which allows us to support each other in our personal and strategic goals.

Diversity statement

At Livestock Information, we value diversity and believe that every individual brings different strengths. We understand that not everyone may possess every single skill outlined in this job description, but if you believe you have a solid skill set that enables you to excel in this position then we really encourage you to apply.

Further information

If you feel your application has not been treated in a fair and open manner or if you are dis-satisfied with any of your interactions during the recruitment process and you wish to make a complaint, you should contact our Talent team via email: talent@livestockinformation.org.uk

Disclaimer 

Livestock Information Ltd. cannot sponsor work visas at this time.

Livestock Information Ltd. Does not discriminate based on race, sex, colour, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.

 Livestock Information Ltd. Does not accept unsolicited CVs from any source other than directly from a candidate. Any unsolicited CV’s not originating directly from a candidate and sent to Livestock Information Ltd or any Livestock Information Ltd employees, including unsolicited CVs sent to a Livestock Information Ltd mailing address or email address, are rejected. Livestock Information Ltd will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited CV. Livestock Information Ltd considers any candidate for whom the recruiter has submitted an unsolicited CV referred by the company free of any fees.