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Senior DevOps Engineer (AKS / Kubernetes)
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Senior DevOps Engineer (AKS / Kubernetes)
Contract, 3 months (initial) Remote (UK hours), Outside IR35
We're hiring a senior DevOps engineer to join a small, sharp engineering team building serious infrastructure in the payments space.
You'd work as an embedded part of that team, not a standalone consultant handing work back over the fence.
There's an existing proof-of-concept Azure cluster in place. Your first job is to validate it, then harden and complete it, and take ownership of the platform going forward.
What you'll be doing:
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- Completing and maintaining an Azure (AKS) cluster and its GitOps pipeline.
- Hardening security through Azure Managed Identity and proper secrets handling.
- Owning the MSAL gateway and Databricks authentication flow.
- Validating the current POC, recommending improvements, and implementing them.
- Writing the documentation that supports handover and ongoing maintenance.
What we need from you:
- Strong hands-on AKS and Kubernetes experience at senior level.
- Solid Azure identity work (Managed Identity, MSAL, secrets).
- GitOps experience.
- Comfort picking up someone else's build, assessing it honestly, and improving it.
- Someone who slots into a team, their repos, their equipment, their ways of working, and gets on with people.
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Shape of the work:
- Immediate start, though we'll consider people on short notice periods.
- Intense for the first 6 to 8 weeks, then moving into ad-hoc, burst-style support across the 3 month term.
- UK working hours. Fully remote. You'll work closely with the team's technical lead.
If that's you, apply and we'll move quickly.
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