Senior Azure DevOps Engineer | Terraform & AKS Expert

Digital Waffle; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Digital Waffle is seeking a hands-on senior DevOps/Platform Engineer to influence technical direction and raise engineering standards. You will work closely with development, infrastructure and security teams as a technical escalation point, driving best practices across the platform.

You will design and maintain Azure infrastructure with Terraform, manage Kubernetes/AKS environments, and advance GitOps, CI/CD, observability and security across the stack.

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.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain scalable Azure infrastructure using Terraform and IaC.
• Develop and manage production Kubernetes/AKS environments, including upgrades and security.
• Establish and improve GitOps and CI/CD practices with GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps and ArgoCD.
• Build reusable Terraform modules and deployment templates to improve consistency.
• Design and maintain Azure networking (VNets, hub-and-spoke, DNS, NSGs).
• Implement cloud security practices across IAM, container security and infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain Helm charts and standardized deployment processes.
• Introduce monitoring, logging, tracing and platform observability.
• Automate repetitive processes using Python, Bash or similar scripting languages.
• Contribute to technical designs and platform roadmaps.
• Help improve developer experience through tooling and self-service capabilities.
• Act as a senior technical escalation point and provide mentoring.
• Support evolution of the platform including container orchestration, autoscaling, progressive delivery and platform security.

Skills

Azure

Terraform

Kubernetes AKS

CI/CD pipelines

GitOps

ArgoCD

Docker

Helm

Azure networking

RBAC IAM

Python Bash

Linux

Observability Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Istio Cilium

KEDA Karpenter

Entra ID PIM

Tools

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Terraform modules

Job description

Digital Waffle is seeking a hands-on senior DevOps/Platform Engineer to influence technical direction and raise engineering standards. You will work closely with development, infrastructure and security teams as a technical escalation point, driving best practices across the platform.

You will design and maintain Azure infrastructure with Terraform, manage Kubernetes/AKS environments, and advance GitOps, CI/CD, observability and security across the stack.