DevOps Engineer ( Azure )

Job description

Responsibilities

• Observability & Monitoring Platform
• Design, implement, and own an Azure observability playbook, delivering comprehensive dashboards, alerting rules, and operational runbooks using Application Insights, Log Analytics, and Kusto Query Language (KQL).
• AIOps & Intelligent Automation
• Develop AI‑driven alerting and detection mechanisms to surface early‑warning signals, including IP reputation degradation, database capacity saturation, and anomalous traffic patterns, enabling proactive issue remediation before incidents occur.
• Release Assurance & Operational Readiness
• Define and enforce Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT) gates for all production deployments, ensuring releases meet agreed reliability, performance, security, and operability standards prior to go‑live.
• Platform Hygiene & Cost Governance
• Perform regular audits of the Azure tenant to identify and remove orphaned, unused, or misconfigured resources, reducing operational risk and controlling cloud spend.
• Infrastructure as Code & CI/CD Enablement
• Build and maintain reusable Terraform modules and ensure CI/CD pipeline integrity across GitHub Actions workflows, enabling consistent, repeatable infrastructure deployments within multi‑subscription hub‑and‑spoke network architectures.

The Ideal Candidate

• Experience
• 6+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles, with demonstrated experience operating and supporting high‑traffic, production Azure environments at scale.
• Infrastructure as Code Expertise
• Deep proficiency in Terraform, including module design, remote state management, workspace strategies, and multi‑environment deployment patterns.
• Monitoring & Observability Expertise
• Advanced experience with KQL for Azure Log Analytics, with the ability to design and build custom Azure Monitor Workbooks for operational insight and reporting.
• Security Automation
• Strong background in security automation, including passwordless authentication using OIDC, Azure Key Vault integration, and best practices for secrets management and identity‑driven access control.
• Azure Platform Knowledge
• In‑depth understanding of Azure Container Apps (ACA), virtual network integration, and Private Endpoint configuration to support secure, network‑isolated workloads.

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

Wembley

Type of Contract

Full-time jobs

Published at

01-05-2026

Profession type

ICT

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English