Senior DevOps Engineer

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Annual salary: Undisclosed
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Department: DevOps & Infrastructure
Employment type: Full Time,
Job posted: 2 Jul 2025
Apply before: 2 Aug 2025
Experience level: Senior
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About CME

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This is a remote position.

Our GenAI platforms provide mission-critical insight for our clients, enabling them to identify and seize opportunities to grow their brands. We are seeking a talented Senior DevOps Engineer to enrich our Central DevOps practice, to provide thought leadership in driving the future of our DevOps centre of excellence.

Responsible for designing, building, and optimising the automation processes for provisioning infrastructure and applications – via infrastructure-as-code (IaC)
Standardise and streamline build and release pipelines – CICD
Configure and administer platforms and services
Support operational activities by ensuring platforms and infrastructure for pipelines are optimal, recoverable, and easily scalable to meet the capacity demands
Provide incident management oversight – root cause analysis, stakeholder communications, post-mortems, and manage preventative measures and resolutions
Actively involved in regular deployments of platform and pipeline artefacts to ensure frequent and incremental value delivery while avoiding unnecessary accumulation of technical or operational debt
Ensure security, high availability, and disaster recovery are always front of mind
Continuous monitoring of cost and risk – to reduce and mitigate
Ensure production and non-production environments stay in sync through the alignment of stable standards, code, and configurations
Identify relevant emerging trends and build compelling cases for adoption, e.g., tool selection
Involved in PoCs, prototypes, and innovation spikes to seek directional outcomes
Engage with peer reviews of your code, and peer review other engineers’ code
Help define and champion strategies and best practices to support best-in-class engineering practices and operational efficiency for all services
Mentor and support other engineers, helping to grow our collaborative environment
Identify and assess risk, reliability, and/or uncertainty in the design, system, or process, including the impact of change

Requirements

6+ years of experience in a similar role is essential
Proficient with CICD toolchains (e.g., Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Git, Artefactory, etc.)
Proficient in one or more scripting languages for automation (e.g., Linux Bash, PowerShell, Python)
Proficient in provisioning platforms via IaC techniques (e.g., Terraform, YAML, Azure Resource Manager (ARM))
Working experience configuring, securing, and administering platforms in Azure; knowledge in Cloud infrastructure and networking principles (e.g., Azure PaaS, IaaS)
Demonstrable knowledge of working with distributed data platforms (e.g., Azure ADLS, Data Lakes)
Experience working with vulnerability management and code-inspection tooling (e.g., Snyk, SonarQube)
Possess an “automation-first” mindset when building solutions; considerations for self-healing and fault-tolerant methods to minimize manual intervention and downtime
Ability to work autonomously in an environment of constant change.
Experience building/maintaining an API-led event-driven architecture, e.g., using Azure Event Grid, Azure Functions, is desirable
Cluster image container management (e.g., Azure Container Registry) is desirable
Good understanding of network configuration – DNS, Routing, VPN, Firewalls, Endpoint management is desirable
Experience in including vulnerability management within the deployment pipelines, for package dependencies and containers, is desirable
Experience in implementing custom Data Observability, capturing telemetry to understand the health of data and pipelines better, is desirable
Familiarity with Microsoft Azure DevOps is desirable