Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer - Shirebrook
Company Description
At Frasers Group we're rethinking retail. Through digital innovation and unique store experiences, we're serving our consumers with the world's best sports, premium and luxury brands globally. As a leader in the industry, we're elevating the retail experience for our consumers through our collection of established brands, including Sports Direct, FLANNELS, USC, Frasers, and GAME.
Why join us?
Our mission-we are building the worlds most admired and compelling brand ecosystem
Our purpose- we are elevating the lives of the many with access to the world's best brands and experiences
At Frasers Group, we fear less and do more. Our people are forward thinkers who are driven to operate outside of their comfort zone to change the future of retail, embracing challenges along the way. The potential to elevate your career is massive, the experience unrivalled. To be able to make the most of it you need to live and breathe our principles:
- Think without limits - Think fast, think fearlessly, and take the team with you
- Own it and back yourself - Own the basics, own your role and own the results
- Be relevant- Relevant to our people, our partners and the planet
Are you ready to join the Fearless?
Job Description
We seek a skilled Cloud DevOps Engineer with expertise in Microsoft Azure to join us and work as part of an enthusiastic, motivated, and delivery-focused agile team. We run over 50 websites and 10 Mobile Applications - including some of the biggest names in Retail.
This role will focus on designing, deploying, and maintaining Azure-based infrastructure to support our global operations, implementing and optimising CI/CD pipelines, and maintaining monitoring and alerting systems. In addition to day-to-day responsibilities, the role includes participation in an on-call rota to provide out-of-hours support, ensuring the resilience and availability of our critical systems.
This role is available on a hybrid basis.
Your primary responsibilities as a Cloud DevOps Engineer will be:
- Azure Infrastructure Design: Build and manage scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure on Microsoft Azure, including virtual networks, storage accounts, and compute resources.
- Automation & IaC: Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
- CI/CD Implementation: Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Docker, GitHub workflows and GitOps practices, enabling seamless application deployments.
- Monitoring & Optimization: Set up and manage monitoring tools such as Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights and Open Telemetry to ensure system health and optimise performance.
- Security & Compliance: Implement best practices for Azure security, including role-based access control (RBAC), network security groups (NSGs), and Azure Policy for compliance.
- Collaboration: Partner with development, QA, and Infrastructure teams to ensure a smooth integration of DevOps practices across the organisation.
- Cost Management: Monitor and optimise Azure costs, ensuring efficient use of cloud resources.
- On-Call Support: Participate in an out-of-hours on-call rotation, responding to critical business alerts and ensuring actions are followed up to reduce future incidents.
- Incident Management: Lead incident response during on-call shifts, ensuring quick resolution and maintaining service uptime.
Qualifications
About you:
- You will have 5+ years of developing and managing modern DevOps environments
- You will be Microsoft Azure or AWS certified DevOps engineer
- You will have familiarity with Site Reliability Engineering
- You will be committed to staying up to date with the latest technology and industry trends, continuously looking for ways to apply them for our benefit
You will have significant experience of the following:
- Build and deployment pipelines using CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps
- Working with Docker / Kubernetes, both for CI/CD, and orchestration with AKS or Container Apps
- Setting up and managing Cloud environments using infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) within Azure and/or AWS
- Delivering containerised, serverless, and virtualised infrastructures
- Networking in Azure, including VNets, load balancers, and Azure DNS
- Process automation and scripting
- Working closely with Cloud Infrastructure and Security teams to ensure organisational best practices are followed
- Coaching/mentoring development teams in the correct application of DevOps principles
It would be great if you also have:
- Hands-on experience with Cloud Security
- Experience using Monitoring / Observability, Logging, and Alerting platforms
- High level understanding of networking fundamentals covering Load balancers, DNS, virtual networks and firewalls
- Experience delivering technical documentation for the environments you setup
- Experience with serverless architectures and microservices on Azure
- Knowledge of Agile and Lean methodologies
- Experience using Git for source control, branching and pull requests
Additional Information
Along with your benefits package we also offer a wide range of perks for our colleagues:
Reward, Recognition and Opportunities
Frasers Champion- Our employees are at the heart of our business and we ensure individuals are recognised every single month for their hard work. Frasers Champion is a peer nominated scheme where 8 winners will receive double their pay for a month where they have thought without limits, owned it or been relevant.
Fearless 1000- By October 2025, we want our share price to hit 10. If that happens for 30 or more consecutive trading days, all colleagues across the business will receive a bonus! The top 1000 performers in the company will receive unprecedented bonuses, worth from 50,000 to 1million! Senior leaders across the business nominate these performers twice a year for embodying our core values and delivering exceptional performance*.
*subject to terms and conditions
Frasers Festival- an event like no other! Our Frasers Festival is our celebration for Head Office and Retail Staff across the UK and Europe - hosting a MEGA brand village, guest speakers from the world's biggest brands, evening entertainment, the ultimate Frasers Fearless Fitness Challenge and much more.
CEO Sessions -Once a quarter we offer 20 employees the opportunity to attend our "CEO Sessions" ran by our CEO and leadership team. Employees have the chance to connect, network and submit questions around specific topics such as our Sports or Luxury business.
Retail Reconnect -In order to build the planets most admired and compelling brand ecosystem, all employees must understand our business, product and customers. Each financial year, Head Office employees will gain insights by spending two days in one of our stores or the Warehouse. The goal is to learn how the work you do impacts our teams on the frontline, and to bring ideas back to the office which will improve how we work.
Employee Welfare
Frasers Fit- Our Everlast Gyms Team are on a mission to make our workforce the best, and fittest on the planet! We run free gym classes for employees as well as discounted memberships to our clubs. Frasers Fit is our wellbeing programme which aims to support and improve colleagues Physical, Financial & Mental wellbeing. The app is accessible for every employee and includes training, nutrition and lifestyle advice- all completely free.
Retail Trust- We know that its not just about physical health, mental wellness is equally important which is why all of our employees get free access and support from the Retail Trust charity. This includes a 24 hour wellbeing helpline, wellness hub, counselling and financial/legal support.
What's next?
Our Recruitment Team will be reviewing applications and all candidates will receive a response, whether you are successful or unsuccessful. Shortlisted applicants may be asked to confirm a few key details before being booked in for a first stage interview with the Recruiter- this will be behaviourally focussed and centred around how you align with our Culture and Values. If successful we anticipate two further interview stages with the Hiring Manager/wider team which will be more technically focussed and could include a presentation/task so we can see your skills in action.
