Job Description:

DevOps Engineer

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As a DevOps Engineer, you will play a key role in improving the delivery, reliability and operational maturity of Microlise software products and platforms. Working closely with Software Engineering Managers, Technical Leads, Developers, Test Engineers and Infrastructure teams, you will help drive automation, consistency and operational excellence across our development and deployment processes.

You will be responsible for building and enhancing CI/CD pipelines, improving observability, automating infrastructure and deployment activities, and ensuring our teams can release software safely, reliably and efficiently. Through collaboration and continuous improvement, you will help reduce deployment risk, strengthen service resilience and enable engineering teams to deliver value to customers faster.

As a 12-month fixed-term contract, this role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on key business-critical projects while working with modern technologies and a highly collaborative engineering team.

What you will be doing: 

•       Designing, maintaining and improving CI/CD pipelines that support safe, repeatable and auditable software releases.
•       Automating build, deployment, configuration and environment management activities to reduce manual effort and improve delivery efficiency.
•        Working with engineering teams to improve branching strategies, build validation, deployment readiness and release governance processes.
•       Creating and maintaining Infrastructure as Code, deployment scripts, reusable templates and configuration standards.
•       Enhancing observability through logging, monitoring, alerting, dashboards and operational telemetry.
•       Supporting service reliability, resilience and operational readiness through proactive monitoring and continuous improvement initiatives.
•       Investigating deployment failures, incidents and recurring operational issues, identifying root causes and implementing sustainable improvements.
•       Embedding security, access control, secrets management and vulnerability management practices within delivery pipelines and deployment processes.
•       Maintaining and improving development, test and release environments to support efficient software delivery.
•       Supporting disaster recovery, business continuity and operational resilience activities.
•       Contributing to DevOps standards, best practices and communities of practice, helping teams adopt consistent and scalable ways of working.
•       Using operational and delivery metrics to identify opportunities for improvement and demonstrate measurable business value.

What we are looking for:

•       Proven experience designing, implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines within enterprise environments.
•       Strong automation experience across build, deployment, configuration and environment management activities.
•       Experience working with source control, branching strategies, release management and modern software delivery practices.
•       Strong knowledge of Azure DevOps, Git-based workflows and YAML-driven pipeline automation.
•       Experience with scripting and automation using technologies such as PowerShell, Python or Bash.
•       Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools such as Terraform, Ansible or similar technologies.
•       Experience supporting enterprise applications, APIs, databases and service-oriented architectures.
•       Knowledge of containerisation and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift and Helm.
•       Experience implementing monitoring, logging, alerting and observability solutions.
•       A solid understanding of operational resilience, deployment risk management, incident investigation and continuous improvement practices.
•       Experience working across both Windows and Linux environments.
•       Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a passion for reducing manual effort through automation.
•       Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, operational and business teams.

Why Microlise?

When your groceries arrive at your door or you sign for your online parcel, one or more of our software, telematics or proof-of-purchase solutions has probably been used. Our solutions deliver value to many of the UK’s leading grocery retailers and food logistics providers as well as to household names including JCB, Eddie Stobart, Carlsberg, Waitrose, and Royal Mail.

Proudly Midlands-based, Microlise has been operating for over thirty years, and recently became a Publicly Listed Company with shares trading on the London Stock Exchange. Our growing business is guided by our culture which drives the way we behave, the way we work, the way we connect with our customers, and the way we support and develop our people.

Full support and training to ensure you are well equipped to succeed in your role

Private medical insurance with Vitality Health including rewards for members such as: Free Amazon Prime, Apple Watch, discounted gym membership and many more

33 days holiday, including bank holidays, increasing year on year to 38 days, then further increases with length of service

Life Assurance, 4 times your annual salary

Free Costco membership, 20% off EE mobile and line rental, and other discounts with Reward Gateway

Invested in employee health and well-being with over 20 mental health first aiders in the business

Employee Assistance Programmes

Great staff extras: Easter eggs, yearly BBQ, Christmas gifts, annual staff awards and many more incentives

Great Place to Work™ certified – We have been recognised by the global authority on workplace culture, so come be a part of our success

Best Workplace in the UK™ for Development, Technology, Wellbeing and Women

Recruitment Process

For successful candidates, interviews will take place whilst the advert is still live; so don’t delay getting your application in!

Recruitment Agencies

Whilst we make every effort to directly source candidates for our live roles, we do have a very small preferred supplier list on the occasion we may require additional support. We therefore do not accept speculative CVs and/or cold calls to our Recruitment Team or Hiring Managers.