Principal DevOps Engineer

The candidate will join Brightgrove's embedded team, working alongside existing placements including Product Owners, Engineering Leads, and specialists across the client's product verticals. On the client side, they will report to the Technology Solutions Lead and collaborate daily with Product Owners, Engineering Leads and development teams across verticals.
The client's development center is organized around three pillars: Product Management, Technology & Engineering and Digital Operations, and this role sits firmly within the Technology & Engineering pillar.

• Interview process that respects people and their time
• Professional and open IT community
• Internal meet-ups and resources for knowledge sharing
• Time for recovery and relaxation
• Bright online and offline events
• Opportunity to become part of our internal volunteer community

CI/CD, Release & Deployment Automation
• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support efficient, repeatable, and secure software delivery.
• Define and maintain deployment strategies, release processes, branching models, and environment management practices.
• Support secure release practices, controlled deployments, and standardized delivery workflows.
• Troubleshoot build, deployment, and release issues in collaboration with development and operations teams.
• Promote reusable pipeline patterns, automation-first thinking, and continuous improvement across delivery teams.
Infrastructure Automation & Cloud Operations
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, deployment, and operational tasks using Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Support cloud platform operations, including environment setup, deployment automation, scaling, monitoring, and incident resolution.
• Support containerized and cloud-native workloads, including orchestration, runtime configuration, and deployment automation.
• Ensure infrastructure and cloud platforms are secure, scalable, observable, and aligned with enterprise technology standards.
• Identify performance, reliability, infrastructure, and deployment risks and proactively implement mitigation actions.
Observability, Reliability & Production Support
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions to improve system reliability and operational visibility.
• Support production systems through incident resolution, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis across application, infrastructure, and deployment layers.
• Maintain operational runbooks, deployment procedures, environment documentation, and platform standards.
• Improve reliability through automation, standardization, diagnostics, and proactive risk reduction.
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to resolve technical issues and strengthen production support practices.
Security, Governance & Collaboration
• Ensure DevOps practices comply with enterprise architecture, security, cloud, and operational standards.
• Collaborate with developers, architects, security teams, project managers, and operations stakeholders to ensure smooth delivery from development through production.
• Support DevSecOps practices such as security scanning, dependency checks, policy-as-code, and secure release gates where applicable.
• Apply knowledge of networking, security, identity, secrets management, and cloud governance principles.
• Promote DevOps culture, automation, shared ownership, and continuous improvement across Digital Factory delivery teams.

Qualifications & Experience
•    Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
•    Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, Cloud Engineer, or similar role in software delivery environments.
•    Strong experience with CI/CD tools and practices such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, or equivalent.
•    Practical knowledge of cloud platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure.
•    Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, Ansible, or similar.
•    Good understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
•    Experience with scripting and automation using Bash, PowerShell, Python, or similar languages.
•    Understanding of networking, security, identity, secrets management, monitoring, observability, and cloud governance principles.
•    Strong collaboration, communication, troubleshooting, and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Experience
•    Experience with Azure DevOps and Microsoft Azure cloud services.
•    Knowledge of DevSecOps practices, including security scanning, dependency checks, policy-as-code, and secure release gates.
•    Experience supporting microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, or cloud-native architectures.
•    Familiarity with ITIL, incident management, change management, and production support processes.
•    Understanding of enterprise architecture standards and regulated delivery environments.
•    Experience working in agile delivery environments.