DevOps Engineer

hireful
County Durham, United Kingdom
Last month
£55,000 – £63,000 pa

Salary

£55,000 – £63,000 pa

Job Type
Permanent
Work Pattern
Flexible
Work Location
Hybrid
Seniority
Mid
Education
Degree
Posted
23 Apr 2026 (Last month)

Benefits

Extensive benefits package Bonus

We’re partnering with a fast-growing, award-winning, technically-led business that is transforming how organisations across the UK manage their utility services. With a strong focus on sustainability, innovation, and simplifying the customer experience, this company offers a genuinely modern, supportive, and forward-thinking environment, where the Technology team plays a key role in driving growth.

They are now looking to hire a DevOps Engineer (experienced, "mid"-level) to join their Platform Engineering team at an exciting stage of growth, as they scale a key internal product beyond MVP. This is a fantastic opportunity for an engineer with solid foundations in DevOps who is keen to further develop their skills while working alongside experienced professionals in a collaborative setting.

Salary: £55,000 – £63,000 + extensive benefits package + bonus

Working Pattern: Hybrid. Flexible split between office and home. Based from Northeast offices, with suitable locations including Durham, Hartlepool, Newcastle, Middlesbrough, Peterlee, Sunderland and surrounding areas.

The Role

This is a hands-on position where you’ll contribute to the design, build, and maintenance of secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud infrastructure. You’ll work closely with a multidisciplinary Agile team, playing an active role in modern DevOps practices and tooling.

Key Responsibilities

Collaborate on the design of secure, scalable, and highly available, cost-optimised cloud infrastructure

Implement technologies using Infrastructure-as-Code

Monitor and manage systems for availability and performance

Support Agile delivery through Scrum and Kanban, contributing to team rituals and processes

What We’re Looking For

Developing and deploying via Infrastructure-as-Code, with proficiency in Terraform, YAML and ARM templates

Creation, monitoring and management of cloud artefacts in Microsoft Azure, using the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) via Azure DevOps

Ability to build and manage services deployed into Kubernetes, including container configuration and Helm charts

Desirable (but not essential)

Using AI to enhance productivity, such as code generation or coding assistance

Code written in C#/.NET

Experience with scripting tools such as PowerShell, Bash, Python, or Bicep

Understanding of observability platforms

If you’re looking to progress your DevOps career within a collaborative, forward-thinking engineering team, this is an excellent opportunity to make a real impact

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