Senior DevOps Engineer

Harrods are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to support our Digital Technology Team. As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will be responsible for the support and overall service of all production and non-production applications and environments across our ecommerce & digital estate. Working as part of the DevOps team, you will own and maintain the deployment pipelines, ensure operational excellence, and partner closely with development, the wider IT team, as well as third-party providers to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable digital services.

About the role

The Senior DevOps Engineer will balance hands-on operational responsibilities with strategic improvements, ensuring monitoring, security, and performance are embedded into every solution. You will mentor peers, promote best practices, and drive continuous optimisation across platforms and processes. At all times you will need to ensure that monitoring, security, and any performance implications are considered and that the correct measures are put in place to detect problems at the earliest opportunity. You will also identify proactive measures that can enable the team to preventatively optimise and continuously improve the solutions.

There is a need to keep calm under pressure and work at a pace so that you can balance the operational elements of the role whilst looking ahead.

About you

You will have demonstrable hands-on experience in Azure cloud, and Azure DevOps, deploying highly available, scalable, and resilient applications and infrastructure. You will have excellent problem determination skills and the ability to diagnose complex technical issues. This is an amazing opportunity for someone who wants to turn technical requirements into effective solutions and make a real difference at a leading retailer.

Our ideal candidate will have experience with the below:

• Experience CICD Pipelines, deploying scalable web/ mobile applications in the cloud with Experience with Azure Cloud and Azure DevOps
• monitoring and troubleshooting business critical application such as web and mobile apps using logs, application monitoring, and synthetic monitoring.
• Experience of scripting languages such as Python,, PowerShell, and C#
• Experience of ITSM tool, ITIL and ISO 27001
• Experience of Deploying infrastructure as code (Pulumi preferred)
• Experience in containerisation technology (e.g Docker, AKS).
• Experience in containerisation technology (e.g Docker, AKS)
• Experience with database technologies must be MSQL and Cosmos DB

About Us

Harrods is one of the world’s leading luxury department stores and we’re becoming a destination for top designers, and the most sought-after brands from around the globe. Our combined mission is to make visiting our iconic Knightsbridge store one of the world’s most inspiring shopping experiences.

Our Promise to You

Help us make the impossible possible for our customers and we’ll do something remarkable for you. As well as offering a friendly environment to inspire your best work, we provide abundant opportunities and support to build an exceptional career across the varied specialisms of our business. 

Uniquely You

Whilst our job adverts outline the ideal qualities, skills, and prior experience for the role, we believe in the potential for growth and value individual strengths. If you can demonstrate the majority of skills and strong experience to thrive in this role, we would encourage you to apply. 

At Harrods we believe the personality and authenticity of our people sets us apart. We celebrate and invite applications from all cultures, backgrounds, tastes, and experiences and are proud of our culture where people from all walks of life can grow and thrive. What makes you unique makes us exceptional.

If you want to know more about life at Harrods, search #TogetherHarrods on LinkedIn, or follow us on Instagram @togetherharrods.