Designs, operates, and improves hybrid cloud infrastructure with a focus on Microsoft Azure. Responsibilities include managing SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS services; supporting Windows and Linux environments; developing Terraform-based infrastructure automation; maintaining CI/CD pipelines; and improving backup, disaster recovery, monitoring, security, governance, and cost efficiency. The role also involves incident response, root-cause analysis, cloud migration, and collaboration across engineering, security, and operations teams.
Location: Sheffield / London / Hybrid Working
(Expectation that you will attend an office 2 days per week)
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week/flexible days and/or hours (Mon-Fri)
Salary: Up to £49,875 (Sheffield) / £60,375 (London) depending on experience
THE ROLE
As a Cloud DevOps Engineer at the British Business Bank, you will help shape reliable, secure and cost-effective technology services that support our organisation and its purpose. This is hands-on engineering role focussed on modern DevOps practices across the full lifecycle of infrastructure management.
Working within Platform Engineering, you will help manage day to day operation and improve our hybrid technology estate, with a particular focus on Microsoft Azure. You will oversee operations across SaaS, IaaS and PaaS services, maintaining Azure networking, compute, storage and platform capabilities. You will also support our on-premises Windows and Linux Server estate, virtualisation platforms and maintaining wider hybrid operating model.
You will create practical, scalable solutions using Infrastructure as Code, Terraform and automation scripting, while maintaining CI/CD pipelines through Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.
Your work will include designing and testing backup and disaster recovery arrangements, maintaining monitoring and observability tools, and responding thoughtfully to incidents. You will collaborate with engineering, security and operations colleagues to identify root causes, improve services and embed DevSecOps practices.
You will bring strong Azure engineering experience across infrastructure, platform services, identity and security, alongside extensive knowledge of Terraform, CI/CD, cloud governance, FinOps and the Azure Well-Architected Framework. Experience of cloud migration, modernisation and regulated environments would also be valuable. Relevant professional certifications or demonstrable equivalent experience will help you succeed in this role.
This is an opportunity to share your knowledge, explore new approaches and contribute to technology services that are dependable, efficient and ready to evolve.
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Key Benefits
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- 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays, opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days holiday
- 15% employer pension contribution
- Flexible working
- Cycle to work scheme, healthcare cash plan, Group Income Protection and life assurance
- Paid voluntary days, maternity, paternity, adoption, and shared parental leave
- Benefits designed to suit your lifestyle - from discounts on retail and dining, to health and wellbeing, travel, and technology...and plenty more
About
The British Business Bank is an established and influential institution with a key mission of driving sustainable growth and prosperity throughout the United Kingdom. It plays a vital role in supporting access to finance for smaller businesses, facilitating their development and contributing to the transition towards a net zero economy. Since its inception in 2014, the British Business Bank has functioned as a government-owned economic development bank, operating independently to fulfil its objectives. It collaborates with over 200 delivery partners, including high street, digital, specialist, and challenger banks, venture capital and private debt funds, as well as fintech platforms, to implement its programs effectively. With offices in Sheffield and London, the British Business Bank currently employs approximately 550 individuals. As an organisation that values flexibility, wellbeing and collaboration, the British Business Bank introduced a hybrid-working model in 2020. Our colleagues typically spend an average of 2 days per week working in our offices, striking a balance between the advantages of remote work and the benefits of in-person collaboration. The successful candidate for this role should be able to commute to our office (unless specified). At the British Business Bank, we aim to represent the communities we serve, firmly believing that different perspectives make us stronger. We strongly encourage applications from individuals with varied experiences and backgrounds. As a Disability Confident employer, we commit ourselves to having an inclusive, equitable and accessible recruitment process supporting applicants and employees, making reasonable adjustments whenever it is feasible.
British Business Bank London, England Office
8 Salisbury Square, London, United Kingdom, EC4Y 8AP
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