Azure DevOps Engineer

JR United Kingdom; Northampton; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the gaming industry is seeking an Azure DevOps Engineer. As the first dedicated DevOps hire, you will drive the transformation of the company's infrastructure, ensuring scalability, security, and efficiency. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape engineering practices, embed DevOps principles, and influence the overall platform reliability.

Benefits

Ownership of critical infrastructure initiatives

Direct impact on platform reliability and scalability

Initiative to set up engineering culture for security and automation

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with OpenTofu or Terraform on Azure required.
• Deep knowledge of various Azure services is essential.
• Experience designing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions is a must.

Responsibilities

• Revamp existing OpenTofu codebase for Azure infrastructure.
• Define containerized deployment workflows using Docker.
• Drive improvements in monitoring and observability across platforms.

Skills

Infrastructure as Code

Azure services

DevSecOps

CI/CD pipelines

Security-focused mindset

Job description

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Low6 is an award winning creator of iGames for sports rights holders, sportsbooks, consumer brands and media outlets. We makenext-levelgames!

We pride ourselves on being different. We think outside the box, and we innovate.

Low6 is backed by big players in the sports, betting and gaming industries. Serious players who believe in our purpose and our vision. The results so far speak for themselves. We’ve raised considerable funding, we’re multi award winners and we’re working with the biggest and best brands in our industries!

We’re a friendly yet unruly bunch, with a common passion. We’re disruptors. Our team are passionate about breaking the norm and we love trying new things. We learn fast and build on what we learn.

ABOUT THE ROLE

At Low6, we build scalable, engaging, and highly customizable free-to-play gaming experiences. With several product lines running simultaneously across a global user base, we're looking to strengthen our engineering foundations with a hands-on Azure DevOps Engineer to bring order, observability, and automation to our infrastructure and deliveryprocesses.

As our first dedicated DevOps hire, you will play a pivotal role in transforming how we build, deploy, secure, and operate applications across our platform. This role is both strategic and hands-on. You will work directly with our developers to embed DevOps principles and tools into our workflows while independently designing and implementing modern best practices across infrastructure, security, and observability.

This is a full-time role offered on an initial 3-month basis, with the potential to become permanent. We are open to working with either independent contractors or candidates on a fixed-term PAYE contract. Please note that we are only considering applicants based in the UK.

RESPONSIBILTIES

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Cloud Architecture

• Revamp and standardize our existing OpenTofu (Terraform) codebase for Azure infrastructureprovisioning.
• Implement and enforce best practices around modularisation, provider aliasing, environment segregation, and remote state management.
• Create robust, repeatable, and self-documenting infrastructure modules to support multiple teams andprojects.
• Guide the team in adopting a GitOps-style workflow for all infrastructurechanges.
• Containerization and Cloud Deployments
• Define and maintain containerized deployment workflows using Docker and Azure Container Apps, App Services, orAKS.
• Optimize our multi-region deployment strategy for scalability, availability, and cost-efficiency.
• Help enforce standardization around image building, tagging, vulnerability scanning, and promotion acrossenvironments.

Observability and Monitoring

• Drive platform-wide improvements in monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting, using tools like OpenTelemetry, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, and Log Analytics.
• Work closely with application developers to define service-level indicators (SLIs), objectives (SLOs), and errorbudgets.
• Ensure infrastructure observability is built into our tooling and that failures are detected and escalatedautomatically.

CI/CD and GitHub Actions Automation

• Audit and consolidate our existing GitHub Actions workflows into centralized, reusable, and parameterizedactions.
• Design and enforce best practices around build matrix, artifact promotion, secrets handling, environment gating, androle-based deployment workflows.
• Automate end-to-end workflows for deployment, rollback, testing, and infrastructureupdates.
• Reduce developer friction by introducing templates, documentation, andtraining.

Security and Access Control

• Leadoursecurityposturemodernizationefforts,includingthemigrationtoAzureEntraID(formerlyAzureAD)for managing access across services.
• ImplementsecureAPI-to-APIauthenticationpatterns,includingtokenmanagement,auditing,andleast-privilegeaccess.
• Introduce secrets management using Azure Key Vault, enforce secure defaults in infrastructure provisioning, and work with developers to harden application pipelines.
• Conduct threat modeling sessions and help evolve our DevSecOpsculture.

SKILLS, EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS

• Proven, hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, especially using OpenTofu or Terraform onAzure.
• Deep knowledge of Azure services, including networking, identity, storage, containers, and observabilitytools.
• Experience with container orchestration platforms such as Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) orsimilar.
• Practical experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, including composite actions, matrix builds, and secrets handling.
• Strong understanding of DevSecOps, cloud security principles, and zero trustarchitecture.
• Hands-on experience with Azure RBAC, Managed Identities, Service Principals, and secure APIauthentication.
• A security-focused mindset and strong sense of infrastructurehygiene.

Advantagoues:

• Experience with cross-platform secrets management like SOPS or HashiCorpVault.
• Familiarity with cost optimization and performance tuning of Azureservices.
• Knowledge of release strategies such as blue-green deployments and canaryreleases.
• Prior experience in a startup or being the first DevOps hire in a smallteam.
• Familiarity with policy-as-code using Azure Policy orOPA/Gatekeeper.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (K8s), preferably with Azure Kubernetes Service(AKS).
• Ability to write and maintain K8s manifests using Helm, Kustomize, or plainYAML.
• Understanding of K8s RBAC, network policies, and workload security bestpractices.
• Comfortable with kubectl, troubleshooting pods, and managing resources in AKSclusters.

WHY JOIN LOW6?

• Ownership of critical infrastructure initiatives
• Your work will directly impact the realiability and scalability of our platform
• You'll set-up the engineering culture for platform security and automation

Location: UK (Remote)

Employment Type: Full-time, Contract or Fixed Term Employment (3 months)

Salary: £5k - £7k per month (dependent on experience)

Low6 is an Equal Opportunities Employer. The company is committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of age, sexual orientation, gender, pregnancy, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, disability, medical history, skin colour, marital status, genetic information or parental status. We base all our employment decisions on merit, job requirements and business needs.