DevOps Engineer

About AME Group

AME Group is a leading provider of consulting and research services to the Metals & Mining and Coal & Consumable Fuels industries. Drawing on more than 50 years of industry expertise, we deliver bespoke consulting engagements, subscription research, and software-as-a-service products to clients globally.

About the role

As our first dedicated DevOps Engineer, you will own the delivery and runtime platform that makes it possible. The role supports every engineering team, application development, data engineering and machine learning, across a mixed estate of on-premises and cloud infrastructure. You will shape how the platform is built from the beginning rather than inheriting someone else's decisions.

Key responsibilities

• Own the CI/CD pipelines: automated build, test and deployment across development, UAT and production
• Deploy to both on-premises infrastructure and cloud, keeping one release process across both
• Keep environments consistent, so a change that works in UAT behaves the same in production
• Execute releases against a documented checklist with a tested rollback path
• Define infrastructure as code, so environments are reproducible and reviewable
• Design and run the container platform: image build, registry, orchestration and zero-downtime deployment
• Build for horizontal scale: auto-scaling policies, load balancing and health checks
• Establish observability across distributed services: metrics, structured logs and tracing
• Support the data and machine learning platform, including workflow orchestration and the compute the Data and AI teams depend on
• Own secrets management and add secret scanning to the pipeline
• Build the monitoring and alerting layer, so production problems surface before someone reports them
• Work with the Data Architect on database migrations, so schema changes flow through the same reviewed pipeline as application code

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years' experience in a DevOps, Platform or Site Reliability Engineering role
• Proven experience building and automating CI/CD pipelines end to end
• Experience deploying to on-premises infrastructure, including IIS and Windows Server
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, particularly Microsoft Azure
• Able to work independently: this is the first dedicated DevOps role in the team

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related field
• Azure, AWS or Kubernetes certification is an advantage, not a requirement

Skills and Experience

Required

• CI/CD tooling: Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins or similar
• Infrastructure as code, ideally Terraform
• Containerization with Docker: building images, and understanding what makes them small, secure and reproducible
• Monitoring and observability: Grafana, with something on the metrics or log side such as Prometheus, Loki or Application Insights
• Windows Server, IIS and SQL Server administration
• Scripting: PowerShell, Bash or Python
• Clear written English for working with engineers across locations

Advantageous

• Kubernetes or equivalent orchestration in production, including scaling, rolling deployments and resource management
• AWS alongside Azure
• Workflow orchestration for data pipelines, such as Apache Airflow
• Distributed tracing, service mesh or API gateway experience
• Having built a platform that grew from a handful of services to many

What We Offer

The scope grows with the platform. As AME One System moves from its first services to a full production estate, this role expands from delivery pipelines into platform engineering, with technical direction over how services are built, deployed and operated.