Principal DevOps Engineer: Azure, AKS & CI/CD Leader

Aberdeen Group; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

40 days annual leave

Pension 16%

Bonus

Private healthcare

Gym discounts

Season ticket loans

Employee discounts portal

Job summary

Aberdeen Group in Edinburgh seeks a Principal DevOps Engineer to lead cloud engineering with a strong focus on Azure and AKS. You will shape automation, CI/CD pipelines and IaC across development, deployment and infrastructure management.

You will collaborate across engineers, analysts and stakeholders to drive scalable, secure solutions and promote AI-assisted engineering practices within an Agile framework.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering cloud-native solutions and leading DevOps practices.
• Hands-on with Git, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code and Azure administration.
• Experience with microservices, containerisation and REST API design, development and testing.
• Expertise in at least one object-oriented programming language, with C# preferred.
• Interest in financial services, investment management or fintech environments, with a commitment to continuous learning.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and evolve Aberdeen’s DevOps strategy, cloud engineering capability and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) platforms.
• Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code solutions and automated testing practices.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, analysts and engineers to deliver scalable, secure and fit-for-purpose technology solutions.
• Promote engineering excellence through automation, cloud-native development and AI-assisted engineering tools.
• Drive continuous improvement and value delivery through Agile ways of working.

Skills

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as code

Azure administration

Microservices

Containerisation

REST API design

C#

Tools

AKS

Kubernetes

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Aberdeen Group in Edinburgh seeks a Principal DevOps Engineer to lead cloud engineering with a strong focus on Azure and AKS. You will shape automation, CI/CD pipelines and IaC across development, deployment and infrastructure management.

You will collaborate across engineers, analysts and stakeholders to drive scalable, secure solutions and promote AI-assisted engineering practices within an Agile framework.