DevOps Engineer (Azure)

We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to enable engineering teams to deliver and operate a secure, scalable SaaS platform on Microsoft Azure.

This role focuses on automation, CI/CD maturity, infrastructure consistency and production reliability. The DevOps Engineer ensures teams can ship safely and frequently without becoming infrastructure operators.

This is a delivery-enablement and operational excellence role, not manual release management.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and evolve CI/CD pipelines for microservices, embedding automated testing, gated promotions, and safe rollback strategies.
• Standardise and automate deployment patterns for containerised workloads, ensuring environments are versioned, reproducible, and consistent.
• Build and maintain Azure infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, ensuring changes are peer-reviewed, traceable, and free from configuration drift.
• Reduce manual intervention through automation and engineering improvements.
• Improve system scaling, failover, retry, and resilience patterns across services.
• Support definition and tracking of service-level objectives, contributing to structured incident response and systemic post-incident improvements.
• Strengthen observability across logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and alerting to ensure services are diagnosable in production.
• Embed security controls into CI/CD pipelines, including automated scanning and secure dependency practices.
• Improve secrets management, certificate lifecycle automation, and secure container practices.
• Increase cost visibility across Azure environments, implementing right-sizing, scaling policies, and lifecycle management to reduce waste.
• Contribute to automation of operational workflows in event-driven and distributed environments.

Key Requirements:

• Strong experience operating production workloads on Azure in cloud-native environments.
• Proven CI/CD design and implementation experience (Azure DevOps or equivalent tooling).
• Infrastructure as Code expertise (ARM, Bicep, or similar), with disciplined Git-based workflows and peer-reviewed changes.
• Experience working with containers (Docker) and understanding of orchestration concepts (Kubernetes desirable).
• Practical experience implementing observability solutions such as Azure Monitor, Application Insights, or OpenTelemetry.
• Strong understanding of reliability engineering practices, structured incident response, and resilience patterns.
• Solid networking fundamentals, including private networking, TLS, ingress/egress controls.
• Experience with secrets management solutions such as Azure Key Vault and strong understanding of identity and access controls.
• Strong scripting and automation capability (PowerShell, Bash; Python desirable).
• Comfortable working in event-driven environments (e.g., Azure Service Bus).
• Desirable: experience building internal developer platforms, implementing policy-as-code or compliance automation, or operating single-tenant SaaS environments.

Who we are:

DOCOsoft is a leading software and services provider to Lloyd’s of London and the broader London insurance market. Since our foundation, we have grown to become one of the leading insurance software specialists in the London Insurance Market. We are a growing team of over 100 colleagues based in Dublin, London, Tokyo, Portugal, Spain, India and Poland.

Here’s what we have to offer:

DOCOsoft aspires to be a market leader in the technology sector and we are always looking for new ways to improve how we deliver value. We hire people who bring hard work, enthusiasm and their own ideas.

We offer:

• 25 days Annual Leave
• Private pension
• Bonus scheme
• Private health
• Life assurance

Equal Opportunity Employer:

DOCOsoft is committed to building an inclusive and diverse team that represents a variety of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates and do not discriminate on any legally protected grounds. If you require reasonable accommodation during any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know.