Senior Azure DevOps Engineer - Terraform, AKS & GitOps

Digital Waffle; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Digital Waffle is seeking a hands‑on Senior DevOps/Platform Engineer to shape cloud infrastructure strategy in Nottingham. You will design, implement and maintain scalable Azure environments using Terraform, AKS and Terraform modules, while driving CI/CD, GitOps and platform security practices.

You’ll mentor engineers, collaborate with development, security and infrastructure teams, and contribute to platform roadmaps and tooling to improve developer experience.

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 or a similar platform.
• > 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 in regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain scalable Azure infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Develop and manage production Kubernetes 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

CI/CD pipelines

GitOps

Docker

Helm

Python scripting

Linux admin

Security & IAM

Observability

Networking

RBAC

Regulated environments

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes (AKS)

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Azure DevOps

Helm

Docker

Grafana/OpenTelemetry

Python/Bash scripting

Job description

Digital Waffle is seeking a hands‑on Senior DevOps/Platform Engineer to shape cloud infrastructure strategy in Nottingham. You will design, implement and maintain scalable Azure environments using Terraform, AKS and Terraform modules, while driving CI/CD, GitOps and platform security practices.

You’ll mentor engineers, collaborate with development, security and infrastructure teams, and contribute to platform roadmaps and tooling to improve developer experience.