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Milton Keynes, Bedfordshire, South East
01/06/2025
Senior DevOps Engineer – Azure specialist – UK Remote – Global Software Vendor. I'm working with a well-established global software provider (1,000 employees worldwide) with a strong footprint across the UK and North America, and they’re currently looking to bring on an experienced DevOps Engineer to join their remote UK team.
This is a fantastic opportunity to work at the forefront of cloud and DevOps technologies, helping to drive modern infrastructure and deployment practices across a distributed systems environment.
What You’ll Be Doing
You’ll play a key role in supporting cloud-based platforms and services — ensuring stability, performance, and scalability. Your work will span infrastructure automation, application deployment, monitoring and alerting, and maintaining secure, well-architected systems across a modern tech stack.
Key areas of responsibility include:
Managing scalable cloud-hosted systems, containers, and microservices in a high-availability environment.
Monitoring application and infrastructure health, including building dashboards and setting up alerts within Azure Monitor using KQL.
Supporting and optimising SQL Server environments and API platforms hosted on Azure.
Delivering robust CI/CD pipelines and supporting Blue/Green deployments.
Implementing disaster recovery, load balancing, and cost management strategies.
Enforcing cloud and network security best practices, including RBAC and firewall configuration.
Ensuring systems are compliant with data regulations such as GDPR and HIPAA.
About You
We’re looking for someone with a strong DevOps background, particularly in Microsoft-centric environments. You’ll need to be comfortable operating independently in a remote-first team and happy collaborating with engineers, product managers, and customers when needed.
The ideal candidate will have:
At least 5 years’ hands-on experience in a DevOps or cloud engineering role.
Strong working knowledge of Azure (or similar cloud platforms) in production environments.
Solid scripting skills in tools like PowerShell, Bash, Python or JavaScript.
Familiarity with infrastructure tools and services like Azure DevOps, Git, Jenkins, MS Build, Maven, etc
Experience with container orchestration (Docker and Kubernetes) and distributed systems.
Competence with CI/CD and deployment strategies including Blue/Green deployments.
Knowledge of networking principles and security protocols.
Confidence in working with data and system monitoring tools, writing KQL queries, and building insights dashboards.
A strong understanding of compliance frameworks and how they apply to cloud infrastructure.
Exposure to C#/.NET environments preferred.
Why Join?
100% Remote role, based in the UK
Chance to work on cutting-edge platforms with global reach
A collaborative and supportive engineering culture
Competitive salary and benefits package
If you’re a DevOps professional looking for your next challenge in a stable, growing, and forward-thinking tech company, I’d love to tell you more.
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