Senior Azure DevOps Engineer – Kubernetes & GitOps

Digital Waffle; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Digital Waffle in Nottingham is seeking a hands-on Senior DevOps/Platform Engineer to shape cloud infrastructure and automation. You will design, build and maintain Azure environments with Terraform, manage Kubernetes/AKS clusters, and drive CI/CD through GitOps tools like ArgoCD.

The role involves mentoring engineers and contributing to platform roadmaps. You will collaborate with development, security and infrastructure teams to raise engineering standards while delivering scalable, secure and

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience with Microsoft Azure.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain scalable Azure infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Develop and manage production Kubernetes/AKS environments, including upgrades, security and networking.
• Establish and improve GitOps and CI/CD practices using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps and ArgoCD.
• Build reusable Terraform modules and deployment templates to improve consistency across environments.
• Design and maintain Azure networking including VNets and firewall solutions.
• Implement cloud security practices across IAM, container security and infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain Helm charts and standardised deployment processes.
• Introduce monitoring, logging and observability across platforms.
• Automate repetitive tasks using Python, Bash or similar scripting languages.
• Mentor engineers and act as a senior technical point of contact.

Skills

Microsoft Azure

Terraform

Kubernetes / AKS

CI/CD pipelines

GitOps

ArgoCD

Docker

Helm

Cloud security

Python scripting

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Job description

Digital Waffle in Nottingham is seeking a hands-on Senior DevOps/Platform Engineer to shape cloud infrastructure and automation. You will design, build and maintain Azure environments with Terraform, manage Kubernetes/AKS clusters, and drive CI/CD through GitOps tools like ArgoCD.

The role involves mentoring engineers and contributing to platform roadmaps. You will collaborate with development, security and infrastructure teams to raise engineering standards while delivering scalable, secure and