Senior DevOps Engineer

Group Overview

This role sits within Platform Group area of Metrea. The Platform Group rovides the Information Technology and Information Systems ecosystem that Metrea is utilising for the day-to-day operations, communication, collaboration and information sharing across its Platform business block.

Position Summary

In this role, you will lead the design and operation of secure, reliable Azure platforms that enable Metrea's UK teams to build, deploy, and support mission-focused services with confidence. You will shape how we use Azure, Azure DevOps, GitHub, automation, and DevSecOps practices to improve delivery speed, platform resilience, and developer experience.

You will be successful if you can combine hands-on engineering depth with technical leadership: solving complex platform challenges, mentoring others, and making pragmatic decisions for sensitive defence environments.

What You'll Do

Design, implement and operate secure, scalable Azure platform services, primarily supporting MITO programmes and UK engineering teams.

Architect Azure infrastructure through code, covering networking, identity, compute, storage, monitoring, governance and container platforms.

Build and improve Azure DevOps and GitHub CI/CD pipelines for repeatable, controlled and secure software delivery.

Develop secure deployment patterns for AI-assisted and agentic workflows, including model integrations, automated evaluation and controlled releases.

Deploy and secure AI platform components such as model APIs, LLM workloads and MCP servers, with appropriate access controls, secrets management and data boundaries.

Build and optimise containerised workloads using Docker and AKS, with resilient and repeatable deployment patterns.

Implement DevSecOps practices including policy as code, vulnerability management, secrets management and software supply-chain controls.

Establish effective monitoring, logging, alerting and service-health reporting across platforms and workloads.

Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, networking, identity, security, pipeline and production issues affecting business-critical services.

Advise and mentor engineers, promote effective platform practices and help teams adopt reusable, self-service tooling.

What You Bring

Proven experience in a senior DevOps, platform, cloud or infrastructure engineering role supporting business-critical services.

Strong hands-on experience designing, deploying and operating Microsoft Azure environments.

Deep experience with Azure DevOps or GitHub, including CI/CD pipelines, release controls and deployment automation.

Proven infrastructure-as-code experience using Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates or comparable technologies.

Strong knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes and AKS, including resilient and automated deployment patterns.

Experience implementing DevSecOps controls across infrastructure, pipelines and the software supply chain.

Hands-on experience building AI-assisted or agentic development workflows, with exposure to model APIs, LLM deployments or MCP.

Strong troubleshooting capability across cloud infrastructure, networking, identity, observability and software delivery.

Ability to influence technical direction, mentor engineers and work effectively across software, platform, security and support teams.

Desirable Experience

Deploying or operating locally hosted LLMs or GPU-based model-serving infrastructure.

Securing MCP servers, agent permissions and access to sensitive tools or data.

Backstage or another internal developer platform, including reusable templates and self-service workflows.

Experience in defence, government or another regulated environment.

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

The successful candidate must be able to qualify for UK Security Clearance.

Benefits

Private Medical Insurance

Subsided gym membership / plans through Wellhub

Electric Car scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Salary sacrificed pension scheme

Free lunch on office days

Enhanced Parental Leave

30 days annual PTO plus b/h

Bonus Scheme

Personal development opportunities

Work Authorization / Security Clearance

The employee will have the legal right to work in the United Kingdom and will be able to produce right to work documentation.

AAP/EEO Statement

Metrea Management Limited (MAM) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or other characteristics protected by law.

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time non-exempt position with typical working hours of Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Hours and work shifts may change in accordance with department and business needs. Exempt Employees must have the ability to be on-call and available, as business needs require. Non-Exempt employees may be required to work over 40 hours per week with approval from the department manager.

Work Environment

This job operates in a hybrid work setting, with 3 days in the office.  The office is located at The Aircraft Factory, 100 Cambridge Grove, London, W6 0LE.

Travel

Some travel may be required to European/US destinations.