Senior Azure DevOps Engineer-Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps

Digital Waffle; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Digital Waffle is seeking a hands-on Senior DevOps/Platform Engineer to shape cloud infrastructure and influence engineering standards across development, infrastructure and security teams in the United Kingdom. You’ll act as a technical escalation point and drive best practices in the broader engineering function.

You’ll design, build and maintain Azure infrastructure with Terraform, manage production Kubernetes/AKS environments, establish GitOps/CI/CD with GitHub Actions, ArgoCD and Azure

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on Azure/cloud infra experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain scalable Azure infrastructure using Terraform and IaC.
• Develop and manage production Kubernetes/AKS environments, incl. upgrades and security.
• Establish and improve GitOps and CI/CD using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps and ArgoCD.
• Create reusable Terraform modules and deployment templates for consistency.
• Design Azure networking (VNets, hub-spoke, DNS, NSGs, firewalls).
• Implement cloud security across IAM, RBAC, container security, CI/CD.
• Develop Helm charts and standard deployment processes.
• Improve monitoring, logging, tracing and observability.
• Automate repetitive tasks with Python/Bash or similar.
• Contribute to architecture decisions and platform roadmaps.
• Mentor engineers and provide senior technical guidance.
• Evolve platform (containers, autoscaling, progressive delivery, security).

Skills

Azure

Terraform

Kubernetes/AKS

CI/CD pipelines

GitOps

Docker

Helm

Scripting (Python/Bash)

Linux admin

Observability

Cloud security IAM RBAC

Tools

ArgoCD

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

OpenTelemetry

KEDA

Istio

Cilium

Kyverno

Falco

Job description

Digital Waffle is seeking a hands-on Senior DevOps/Platform Engineer to shape cloud infrastructure and influence engineering standards across development, infrastructure and security teams in the United Kingdom. You’ll act as a technical escalation point and drive best practices in the broader engineering function.

You’ll design, build and maintain Azure infrastructure with Terraform, manage production Kubernetes/AKS environments, establish GitOps/CI/CD with GitHub Actions, ArgoCD and Azure