Senior Azure DevOps Engineer — Terraform, AKS & GitOps

Digital Waffle; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Digital Waffle is seeking a hands-on senior DevOps/Platform Engineer to influence technical direction, raise engineering standards and shape cloud infrastructure design across Azure and Kubernetes. You will partner with development, infrastructure and security teams, acting as a technical escalation point and delivering GitOps, CI/CD, security practices, observability and automation at scale.

In this role you’ll design reusable Terraform modules, helm charts and deployment templates, mentor

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.

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

Microsoft Azure

Terraform

Kubernetes (AKS)

CI/CD pipelines

GitOps

ArgoCD

Docker

Helm

Python

Bash scripting

Linux administration

Tools

ArgoCD

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Digital Waffle is seeking a hands-on senior DevOps/Platform Engineer to influence technical direction, raise engineering standards and shape cloud infrastructure design across Azure and Kubernetes. You will partner with development, infrastructure and security teams, acting as a technical escalation point and delivering GitOps, CI/CD, security practices, observability and automation at scale.

In this role you’ll design reusable Terraform modules, helm charts and deployment templates, mentor