Senior DevOps Engineer
CDP Global · London, GB ·
- Work mode
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Full time
- Category
- Devops
- Visa sponsorship
- No
- Salary
- GBP 70,000 – 80,000 / year
CDP Global · London, GB ·
Design and maintain Azure-based CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native infrastructure using Terraform, GitHub Actions and Azure Pipelines to enable reliable, scalable software delivery for a global environmental-disclosure platform.
Title - Senior DevOps Engineer
Location - London
Salary - £70,000 - £80,000
About CDP:
CDP is a global non-profit that runs the world’s only independent environmental disclosure system. As the founder of environmental reporting, we believe in transparency and the power of data to drive change.
Partnering with leaders in enterprise, capital, policy and science, we surface the information needed to enable Earth-positive decisions. We helped more than 24,800 companies and almost 1,000 cities, states and regions disclose their environmental impacts in 2024. Financial institutions with more than a quarter of the world’s institutional assets use CDP data to help inform investment and lending decisions.
Our team is truly global, united by our shared desire to build a world where people, planet and profit are balanced. Visit cdp.net or follow us @CDP to find out more.
About the Team:
The DevOps Team is responsible for enabling and supporting CDP’s engineering squads to deliver high-quality software efficiently and reliably. Working closely with infrastructure, architecture, and engineering teams, the DevOps Team leads on deployment pipelines, infrastructure as code, environment management, and automation — ensuring scalable and secure delivery across the platform.
About this role:
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will play a key technical role in evolving CDP’s DevOps practices, working across multiple squads to design and implement tooling, pipelines, automation and infrastructure. You will act as a DevOps subject matter expert, mentoring engineers, collaborating with architecture and infrastructure colleagues, and helping the team scale through innovation and robust cloud-native solutions.
What you will do:
Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure and architecture teams across multiple squads.
Design, implement and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines using Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions.
Build and manage scalable infrastructure using Terraform, applying Infrastructure-as-Code best practices.
Support engineers with training, documentation and guidance to embed DevOps practices into squads.
Ensure environments (Dev, SIT, UAT, Prod) are well managed, stable and aligned to best practice.
Integrate and maintain tools for code quality and compliance, such as SonarCloud, Ruff, Black, and Pylint.
Work closely with product and QA teams to align deployment strategies and release readiness.
Optimise Azure cloud services for performance, reliability and cost efficiency.
Automate and streamline manual tasks and recurring processes.
Implement proactive monitoring and observability solutions to detect and resolve infrastructure and pipeline issues.
Contribute to DevOps documentation, standards, and knowledge sharing.
Actively contribute to an effective and engaged team, clear on its purpose and contribution, by:
Ensuring you know what is expected of you, through regular 1:1’s, having clear objectives in place, and participating in open and honest performance and development conversations
Ensuring a respectful and inclusive workplace, where team members communicate openly, share knowledge so it can be used, and respect difference.
Living the CDP Values and demonstrating the behaviours appropriate to your position.
Internal stakeholders include: Engineering, QA, Architecture, Infrastructure, Product
External stakeholders include: External support providers and cloud vendors
We’re looking for:
Significant hands-on experience supporting DevOps for Azure-based platforms at scale
A background in Software Development, with the ability to read other team's code to diagnose problems.
Proficiency with Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code tools
Experience building CI/CD pipelines and managing DevOps workflows (Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions)
Strong understanding of cloud-native services (e.g. Azure App Services, Function Apps, Container Apps)
Experience with test automation and integration of code quality tools
Effective troubleshooting skills across multiple environments and systems
Ability to mentor others and influence DevOps culture across teams
Strong documentation, communication and collaboration skills
Passion for environmental sustainability and interest in CDP’s mission
Salary and benefits: The salary banding for this role is £70,000 - £80,000/year, 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, generous non-contributory pension provision, Employee Assistance Programme, life assurance, training and development, flexible working opportunities and other benefits.
Final offer amount depends on multiple factors such as candidates experience and expertise, geographic location, total compensation, and market data.
This is a permanent role based at CDP’s London office. Interested applicants must be eligible to work legally in the UK and live within a commutable distance of the London office and be comfortable with 2 days in the office per week. We cannot sponsor this role.
Before you apply :
We’ll only use the information you provide to process your application. For more details on how we use your information, see our applicant’s privacy notice. By uploading your CV and covering letter, you are permitting CDP to use the information you have provided for recruitment purposes.
How to apply:
Please upload your CV in English via the application form. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis so early applications are encouraged.