Azure DevOps Lead: Cloud Infra, Terraform & AKS Expert

Digital Waffle; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Digital Waffle is seeking a hands-on senior DevOps/Platform Engineer to shape cloud infrastructure and automation strategies. You will collaborate across development, infrastructure and security teams, acting as a technical escalation point and helping drive best practices across the engineering function.

You will design and maintain scalable Azure infrastructure using Terraform and IaC, manage production Kubernetes/AKS environments, and establish GitOps and CI/CD practices.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with Microsoft Azure and Terraform/IaC.
• Production Kubernetes experience, preferably AKS.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain Azure infrastructure with IaC.
• Manage Kubernetes/AKS environments, upgrades and security.
• Implement CI/CD and GitOps with GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, ArgoCD.
• Develop reusable Terraform modules and deployment templates.
• Improve observability with Grafana/OpenTelemetry.

Skills

Azure

Terraform

Kubernetes

GitOps

ArgoCD

Docker

Helm

CI/CD

Python

Bash

Tools

AKS

Grafana

Loki

Job description

Digital Waffle is seeking a hands-on senior DevOps/Platform Engineer to shape cloud infrastructure and automation strategies. You will collaborate across development, infrastructure and security teams, acting as a technical escalation point and helping drive best practices across the engineering function.

You will design and maintain scalable Azure infrastructure using Terraform and IaC, manage production Kubernetes/AKS environments, and establish GitOps and CI/CD practices.