Azure TechOps Engineer - Reliability & Modernisation

Addition; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Addition is seeking a senior TechOps Engineer to own an Azure-hosted platform, stabilise operations, and drive modernization. This remote UK role focuses on security, reliability and automation across the stack.

You will manage production on RHEL, tune performance, lead major incident investigations, and collaborate with security, SOC, NOC and development teams. The position includes on-call rotations and disaster recovery readiness.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in TechOps, Infrastructure, SRE or Production Operations within complex production environments.
• Strong hands-on Azure experience, including VMs, networking, security, load balancing and cloud platform services.
• Experience supporting Java/Spring Boot microservices and associated middleware in live production environments.
• Strong analytical and debugging skills across infrastructure, applications, networking and databases.
• Advanced Elasticsearch/Elastic Stack experience with JVM monitoring and performance analysis.
• Practical experience with Terraform, GitHub Actions and Ansible, plus Python and Bash scripting.
• Proven experience managing major incidents, conducting root cause analysis and implementing permanent fixes.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of Azure-hosted infrastructure, ensuring environments remain stable, secure and reliable.
• Manage and support production environments, with hands-on RHEL administration, patching, performance tuning and security hardening.
• Act as a senior escalation point for complex L2/L3 incidents, leading investigations and long-term fixes.
• Troubleshoot issues across the full technology stack from OS and networking to Java applications, middleware and databases.
• Support Java and Spring Boot microservices, investigating JVM performance, memory and GC concerns.
• Drive vulnerability remediation across cloud infrastructure, operating systems and middleware.
• Collaborate with Security, SOC, NOC and development teams to manage incidents and improve operational resilience.
• Automate infrastructure and deployment processes using Terraform, GitHub Actions and Ansible.
• Develop and maintain centralized monitoring, logging and observability through Elastic Stack and related tools.
• Take responsibility for backup processes, restore testing and disaster recovery readiness.
• Participate in a structured 24/7 on-call rotation.
• Manage incidents, problems and changes through Jira Service Management.
• Build and maintain technical documentation, runbooks and dashboards.
• Help modernise the platform through automation and AI-assisted tooling.

Skills

Azure administration

RHEL

Java/Spring Boot

Elastic Stack

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Ansible

Python scripting

Bash scripting

Incident management

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Ansible

Python

Bash

Elasticsearch

Job description

Addition is seeking a senior TechOps Engineer to own an Azure-hosted platform, stabilise operations, and drive modernization. This remote UK role focuses on security, reliability and automation across the stack.

You will manage production on RHEL, tune performance, lead major incident investigations, and collaborate with security, SOC, NOC and development teams. The position includes on-call rotations and disaster recovery readiness.