Azure DevOps Engineer

About the Company

At IMSERV, we're proud to be one of the UK's leading energy data and metering specialists. We deliver award-winning services to customers across the country, providing specialist metering technology for electricity, gas and water, alongside highly accurate energy data collection services.

About the Role

The purpose of the role is to own the Azure platform on which IMSERVs Astral products are built, tested and run, helping us deliver highly scalable, secure, multi-tenant SaaS software to clients across the globe. You will be one of two DevOps Engineers who together own the path to production: the Azure environments, the CI/CD pipelines, the releases and the security and cost posture of the estate. The pair share the full scope so that no environment, pipeline or release depends on any one individual. This role sits within our Scrum teams, working day to day with Software Engineers, Testers and the Technical Architect. Where they own the code, you own the platform it ships on, through the entire product lifecycle.

Responsibilities

Environment management. Provision, configure and maintain the Astral environment estate (development, test, UAT/load and production), keeping environments consistent, reproducible and documented through infrastructure as code. Manage environment refreshes and test data in line with our data protection rules.

CI/CD pipelines. Build, maintain and continuously improve our Azure DevOps build, test and release pipelines, including artifact management, controlled build configurations and pipeline variables, and automated quality and security gates. Consolidate duplicated per-client pipelines toward a single deployment path as the platform moves to multi-tenancy.

Release management. Plan and execute deployments through the environment chain to production, with rehearsed rollback for every release. Support product go-lives and maintain a clear, communicated release calendar.

Security and access. Own secrets and certificate management (Azure Key Vault, managed identities), role-based access control and least-privilege across the estate, and platform patching. Work with IT security on au...