Senior Azure DevOps Engineer: Terraform, AKS & CI/CD

Digital Waffle; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Digital Waffle is seeking a hands-on Senior DevOps/Platform Engineer to shape cloud infrastructure and automation. You will influence architectural direction, mentor engineers and collaborate with development, security and operations teams to raise engineering standards.

You will design, build and maintain scalable Azure infrastructure, Kubernetes environments, and secure CI/CD pipelines while advancing platform observability and developer tooling.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience with Microsoft Azure.
• Extensive experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Strong production experience with Kubernetes, ideally AKS.
• Good understanding of Azure networking and cloud architecture.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with GitOps, ideally using ArgoCD.
• Strong knowledge of Docker and containerised environments.
• Experience with Helm and Kubernetes application deployment.
• Good understanding of cloud security, IAM, RBAC and secure CI/CD practices.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Proficiency with Python, Bash or similar scripting languages.
• Experience contributing to technical architecture, design documentation and engineering standards.
• Comfortable communicating technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience mentoring engineers or acting as a senior technical point of contact.
• Istio or Cilium
• KEDA or Karpenter
• Falco or Kyverno
• Entra ID and PIM
• Observability platforms such as Grafana, Loki or OpenTelemetry
• Experience working within regulated or compliance-focused environments

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain scalable Azure infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Develop and manage production Kubernetes/AKS environments, including upgrades, security, networking and optimisation.
• Establish and improve GitOps and CI/CD practices, using tools such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps and ArgoCD.
• Build reusable Terraform modules, deployment templates and automation to improve consistency across environments.
• Design and maintain Azure networking, including VNets, hub-and-spoke architectures, DNS, NSGs and firewall solutions.
• Implement cloud security practices across identity, access management, container security and infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain Helm charts and standardised deployment processes for application teams.
• Introduce and improve monitoring, logging, tracing and platform observability.
• Automate repetitive processes using Python, Bash or similar scripting languages.
• Contribute to technical designs, architecture decisions and platform roadmaps.
• Help improve developer experience through tooling, documentation and self-service capabilities.
• Act as a senior technical escalation point and provide mentoring and guidance to other engineers.
• Support the continued evolution of the platform, including container orchestration, autoscaling, progressive delivery and platform security.

Skills

Azure

Terraform

Kubernetes

AKS

GitOps

CI/CD

Docker

Helm

Python

Bash

Security

Linux

Observability

ArgoCD

Networking

Tools

Terraform

ArgoCD

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Grafana/OpenTelemetry

Kusto/Logs

Job description

Digital Waffle is seeking a hands-on Senior DevOps/Platform Engineer to shape cloud infrastructure and automation. You will influence architectural direction, mentor engineers and collaborate with development, security and operations teams to raise engineering standards.

You will design, build and maintain scalable Azure infrastructure, Kubernetes environments, and secure CI/CD pipelines while advancing platform observability and developer tooling.