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DevOps Engineer | Azure | AKS | Terraform | CI/CD
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DevOps Engineer | Azure | AKS | Terraform | CI/CD
DevOps Engineer | Azure | AKS | Terraform | CI/CD | UK Based Only
Only suitable for Azure Engineers (AWS or GC) NOT right for this role non negotiable
Salary: £75,000 per annum
Contract: Fixed Term - 12 Months (Company Payroll + Full Benefits)
Start: ASAP - 4 weeks notice is the maximum my client can wait
Working Model: Fully Remote - UK Based Only
Eligibility: No sponsorship - must have existing right to work in the UK
🚨 Non-Negotiables - Please only apply if you have ALL of the following 🚨
Core technologies:
- Hands-on Azure at production scale - VMs, AKS, networking, Azure Monitor
- Azure DevOps - pipeline ownership, not just usage
- Terraform or equivalent IaC - used as the default for durable infrastructure changes
- PowerShell and/or Bash scripting for automation
- Linux and Windows - competent on both
- Production on-call experience - you've owned incidents through to resolution
Environment:
- Real production SaaS or product environment experience - operated live systems under pressure
- Comfortable working within a structured, experienced infrastructure team
- Strong written communication - clear runbooks, clean status updates
- Able to work fully independently in a remote setup
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Role Overview
We're working exclusively with a well-established, investor-backed technology business operating a high-scale, high-availability platform processing enormous transaction volumes across a complex mixed Azure estate. This is a serious platform - PCI DSS and ISO 27001 obligations, production SQL Server at scale, AKS microservices, RabbitMQ, Redis, and a live Azure DevOps pipeline estate.
They're in the middle of a significant infrastructure maturity push - deployment automation, IaC across the full estate, modern observability, and self-service tooling for delivery teams. The Infrastructure Lead is in place and the direction is set. They need a hands-on engineer to come in and execute.
This is not a coordination role. You'll be in Azure, in Terraform, in pipelines, and on incident bridges. If you enjoy building and operating reliable infrastructure in a complex environment, this is a strong opportunity.
What You'll Be Doing
- Maintain and improve Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for application and platform components
- Extend Terraform coverage across the estate - IaC treated with the same rigour as application code
- Contribute to production deployment automation with reliable rollback capability
- Help standardise environments and reduce configuration drift across dev, test, and prod
- Improve monitoring, dashboards, and alert routing - including scheduled job and batch workload coverage
- Participate in the on-call rota and own infrastructure incidents through to resolution
- Apply security and patching practices within PCI DSS and ISO 27001 obligations
- Document runbooks and share knowledge so platform context isn't siloed
- Work toward self-service deployment tooling that reduces routine requests from delivery teams
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Nice to Have
- SQL Server operational awareness - backups, patching, availability, performance at scale
- Observability tooling - Elastic, Grafana, PagerDuty or equivalent
- RabbitMQ or Redis in production
- Experience in a regulated environment - PCI DSS, ISO 27001 or similar
- Platform engineering mindset - self-service tooling, environment automation
If you're a hands-on DevOps engineer who thrives on complex estates and wants to make a real dent in a well-funded improvement programme, get in touch for a fast response.
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