SC Cleared DevOps Engineer | AKS & Azure Cloud Pipelines

Morson Human Resources Limited; Preston; On-site; GBP 111,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Morson Human Resources Limited in Preston is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to support the design, automation and operation of cloud infrastructure for an enterprise data platform and its AI/ML workloads.

You will apply strong expertise across infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, containerisation and cloud governance to ensure platforms are secure, scalable and auditable, with close collaboration to data engineers, MLOps engineers and solution architects.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of Azure cloud platform services and Azure Landing Zone principles.
• Hands-on experience designing and debugging CI/CD pipelines, ideally using GitLab CI/CD.
• Practical experience with Docker and container image build, security, and deployment workflows.
• Experience managing container orchestration platforms, particularly Azure Kubernetes Service.
• Strong infrastructure as code experience using Terraform or similar technologies such as Bicep.
• Understanding of secure coding, secure deployment, auditing, and platform compliance principles.
• Ability to troubleshoot infrastructure, networking, deployment, and platform issues.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, maintain, and support GitLab CI/CD pipelines for frequent and reliable deployments to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Build and maintain Dockerfiles and container image workflows, including publishing images to internal container registries.
• Define and manage secure, scalable AKS cluster configurations for containerised workloads.
• Implement infrastructure as code using Terraform, covering cloud network, security, compute, and supporting platform resources.
• Support orchestration tooling such as Airflow as part of the wider platform capability.
• Manage secrets, configuration, and access controls using Azure Key Vault and Azure Active Directory.
• Support hybrid connectivity between on-premises services and Azure cloud infrastructure.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure infrastructure is reproducible, reliable, auditable, and fit for use across environments.
• Monitor platform health, logging, and metrics using observability tools such as Azure Monitor, Prometheus, and Grafana where applicable.
• Champion automation, DevOps best practice, platform security, auditing, and cost-aware engineering across the team.

Skills

Azure

CI/CD

Terraform

Docker

AKS

Security

Observability

Networking

Tools

GitLab CI/CD

Azure AKS

Terraform

Azure Key Vault

Grafana/Prometheus

Job description

Morson Human Resources Limited in Preston is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to support the design, automation and operation of cloud infrastructure for an enterprise data platform and its AI/ML workloads.

You will apply strong expertise across infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, containerisation and cloud governance to ensure platforms are secure, scalable and auditable, with close collaboration to data engineers, MLOps engineers and solution architects.