Associate DevOps Engineer

Associate DevOps Engineer - Davies

As an Associate DevOps Engineer at Davies, you will play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining the infrastructure, tooling, and processes that enable reliable, secure, and efficient software delivery across the organisation. You will work closely with development teams, cloud engineers, architects, security specialists, and global stakeholders to ensure applications and platforms can be deployed, supported, and scaled with confidence.

A core part of this role is developing and enhancing CI/CD pipelines, managing cloud environments, enabling automation, and ensuring systems remain stable, performant, and aligned with operational best practices. You will operate within an Agile environment, champion DevOps principles, and contribute to continuous improvement of infrastructure, delivery pipelines, and engineering processes. This role requires strong technical expertise, a proactive mindset, excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively across cross‑functional global teams.

Key Responsibilities

CI/CD Pipeline Development & Delivery Automation

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support automated builds, testing, and deployments.
• Ensure pipelines are scalable, secure, and aligned with best practices in version control and release automation.
• Collaborate with development teams to integrate code quality, security scanning, and automated test execution into pipelines.
• Drive continuous improvement of delivery processes to reduce manual effort and increase release velocity.

Cloud Infrastructure & Environment Management

• Provision, configure, and manage cloud environments (Azure preferred) using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Support development, test, staging, and production environments, ensuring availability, reliability, and performance.
• Implement and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure aligned with architectural standards.
• Troubleshoot and resolve environment or infrastructure issues in collaboration with global teams.

Monitoring, Observability & Operational Excellence

• Implement and manage monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to ensure visibility and stability of systems.
• Respond to performance issues, incidents, and operational alerts with a focus on root cause identification and prevention.
• Ensure adherence to operational, security, and compliance standards across all environments.
• Participate in on‑call support on a rotational basis when required.

Collaboration & Continuous Improvement

• Work closely with developers, architects, product teams, and security to embed DevOps best practices across the lifecycle.
• Support release management and deployment governance, ensuring smooth and predictable delivery processes.
• Identify opportunities to optimise performance, improve reliability, and automate manual operational tasks.
• Contribute to technical documentation for pipelines, infrastructure, environments, and procedures.

Stakeholder Engagement & Global Collaboration

• Communicate clearly with global stakeholders, project teams, and managers on environment status, changes, and risks.
• Support cross‑team collaboration to ensure successful delivery of enterprise solutions.
• Work effectively with third‑party vendors and managed service providers where required.

Skills, Knowledge And Expertise

• 3–6 years’ experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering roles.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Hands‑on experience with CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.).
• Strong working knowledge of cloud platforms, ideally Microsoft Azure.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM, Bicep, or similar)
• Strong Linux knowledge and experience with scripting (Bash, PowerShell, etc.)
• Good understanding of containerisation (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with Agile / DevOps delivery methodologies.
• Strong troubleshooting, analysis, and problem‑solving skills.
• Good communication skills for supporting global teams and distributed stakeholders.

Key skills/competency

• DevOps
• Cloud Engineering
• Site Reliability Engineering
• CI/CD
• Azure
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Linux
• Scripting
• Docker
• Kubernetes