About this role
Salary: £59,660 - 65,000 per year
Requirements: Significant experience delivering Azure DevOps CI/CD solutions for complex cloud, data or analytics platforms, including source control, automated pipelines and release management.Experience deploying and managing Microsoft Fabric, Power BI and Azure data services using DevOps practices, source control and release automation.Strong automation and infrastructure-as-code skills, with experience delivering scalable, maintainable and reusable solutions.Good understanding of secure delivery practices in Azure, including access controls, secrets management, governance and operational risk management.Experience implementing automated, governed and repeatable deployment processes across development, test and production environments.Experience supporting production services, including deployment monitoring, troubleshooting, release improvement and operational support.Ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary teams, sharing knowledge and expertise to support capability building, knowledge transfer and the adoption of DevOps best practices.Successful candidates must obtain Security Check (SC) clearance to a standard satisfactory to us within the first six months of employment. Applicants are normally expected to have been resident in the UK for the last five years to meet standard residency requirements for SC clearance. Responsibilities: Lead the practical design, build and operation of our deployment capability for data platforms.Configure repositories, branch policies, service connections, environments, approvals and automated pipelines.Integrate Azure DevOps with Microsoft Fabric and related Microsoft services.Introduce proportionate testing, release and rollback controls.Diagnose deployment failures and improve deployment processes as the platform and its products develop.Help our team deliver changes safely and consistently by establishing deployment pipelines, controls and working practices for a modern data platform. Technologies: AzureCI/CDCloudDevOpsFabricSupportPower BISecurity More:
We are Ofwat, the Water Services Regulation Authority, a non-ministerial government department responsible for regulating the water sector in England and Wales. We hold water companies to account, drive performance and work to ensure the sector delivers value for customers, communities and the environment. As the sector evolves, we are collaborating with government and other regulators on a new body for England, while continuing to engage with the Welsh Government. This hands-on senior engineering role sits in our IT Operations Team and reports to the Head of IT Operations. It is a fixed-term appointment until 31 December 2027, with the possibility of extension. The role is based in Birmingham, with hybrid working and opportunities to work from our Birmingham and London offices. We offer an agile, flexible and collaborative environment, autonomy and support, development opportunities, a good employer pension contribution, 25 days annual leave rising to 30 with service, bank holidays and 2.5 days of privilege leave, discounts, paid membership of relevant professional bodies, up to three volunteering days per year, recognition vouchers, and shared parental leave and pay. The application closing date is 23:55 on 1 November 2026.
last updated 42 week of 2026