Senior DevOps Engineer

BigHand; Greater London; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday + BigHand days off

Wellbeing benefits

Private medical + vision

Online wellbeing programs & webinars

Employee Resource Groups (ERG)

Wellness day participation

Volunteer days

Study leaf allowance

Pension & life assurance

Cycle to Work Scheme

Tech Scheme

Job summary

BigHand Limited is seeking a Platform/DevOps Engineer to join a team of engineers, delivery managers and architects. You will work on Cloud Platform Design, On-prem to Cloud Migration, automated deployment, and security testing to deliver secure products and cloud platforms.

You will contribute to platform engineering, operations and security research, and collaborate with Product and Software Engineering teams to meet OKRs and initiatives.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Azure IaaS, PaaS and SaaS experience across compute, networking and data.
• Proficient in Terraform and scripting languages (PowerShell, Bash, SQL, KQL).
• Experience with AKS, Kubernetes and Docker on Azure.
• Strong security engineering practice including SAST/DAST and monitoring.
• Proven ability to lead end-to-end cloud projects and agile delivery.

Responsibilities

• Champion DevSecOps and embed security into the project lifecycle.
• Move on-prem services to a multi-region Azure platform and grow AKS/Docker.
• Automate build, release, and operations; extend Terraform/PowerShell libraries.
• Set up monitoring, dashboards, and uptime reporting to detect issues early.
• Own incidents and maintenance, prioritize SLAs and root causes.
• Collaborate across teams to design secure, compliant products and write guides.

Skills

Azure expertise

Infrastructure as Code

Automation

Containers

Security engineering

Resilience & delivery

Collaboration & learning

Tools

Terraform

PowerShell

Bash

SQL

KQL

Packer

Azure DevOps YAML pipelines

CI/CD tooling

Job description

About BigHand

BigHand offers technology solutions for busy legal professionals that provide data and insights to increase value and profits. Through our expert knowledge and innovative technology, we enable our customers to achieve enhanced efficiency, better decision-making and harness their competitive edge.

We build with tomorrow in mind, transforming ideas into action and empowering our customers to succeed in a world of constant change. We make big happen for our customers.

We are a business driven by our values and have these at the centre of everything we do. Our BigHanders are dedicated to building a culture where We Win Together, We Love to Learn, We Do the Right Thing, We Own It and We Find the Fun.

About the role

As a Platform/DevOps Engineer, you will be working with a team of great engineers, delivery managers and architects on several topics i.e., Cloud Platform Design, On-prem to Cloud Migration, Automated Deployment, Infrastructure Provisioning, Security Testing and many more.
You will work on different Platform Engineering, Platform Operations and Platform Security projects and collaborate with Product, Architecture and Software Engineering teams to deliver secure products and cloud platforms to support companywide OKRs and initiatives.
You will contribute to BigHand Platform Engineering, Operations and security research and bring new knowledge inside the company

What you’ll do

• Champion DevSecOps: Promote secure ways of working and best practice across your team and the wider business. Build security into every stage of the project lifecycle.

• Drive our cloud journey: Move on-prem services to a multi-region, highly available Azure platform (PaaS and IaaS). Help build our Azure landing zone and grow our container setup on Azure Kubernetes and Docker.

• Automate and build reusable tooling: Automate manual build, release and operations work. Extend and secure our Terraform and PowerShell module library, and create reusable templates for the wider engineering team.

• Keep global platforms healthy: Set up and manage monitoring, enterprise-grade dashboards and usage and uptime reporting, so issues and risks are found and fixed quickly.

• Own incidents and maintenance: Prioritise incidents to meet SLAs, find root causes and fix them. Take part in planned maintenance during business hours and out of hours.

• Collaborate and keep improving: Work with developers, architects, platform engineers and IT operations to design and deliver secure, compliant products. Write clear operational and security guides, and keep improving our processes, tools and cloud costs.

What we’re looking for

• Azure expertise: Hands-on experience with Azure IaaS, PaaS and SaaS across compute, networking, security and data. You’ll have built Azure Landing Zones with the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and led multi-region migrations from on-prem, covering rehosting, re-platforming and refactoring, not just lift and shift.

• Infrastructure as Code and automation: Strong Terraform skills, plus scripting in PowerShell, Bash, SQL, KQL and Packer. Experience with Azure DevOps YAML pipelines and CI/CD is essential, including building security and code quality tools into those pipelines.

• Containers: Experience setting up, automating and supporting Kubernetes and Docker environments, on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

• Security engineering: Hands-on experience with WAF, security logging, monitoring and alerting, privileged access management, secrets management and vulnerability management. You’ll also know security scanning tools (SAST, DAST, open-source and container scanning) and how to apply security controls across data, infrastructure and applications.

• Resilience and delivery: Experience with business continuity (BCP) and disaster recovery, and with leading complex cloud projects end to end, from requirements through to support. You’ll also know Agile methods and operations practices well.

• The right mindset: A collaborative team player who loves learning, solves problems quickly and analytically, and communicates and presents clearly. You’ll also have a strong grasp of information security and cloud security best practice.

What we offer

• 25 days holiday (exc. bank holidays) + 3 BigHand days off between Christmas & New Year

• Various wellbeing benefits including private medical, vision, online wellbeing programs & webinars, access to online therapy and Employee Resource Groups (ERG)

• Company-wide Wellness day, for our teams all across the globe to switch off and spend the day doing something to nourish their mental health

• Opportunities to give back with company volunteer events and individual volunteer days

• Career growth opportunities and study leaf allowance

• Family benefits including enhanced parental leave, secondary caregiver leave and fertility support

• Financial benefits including pension scheme, life assurance, and salary sacrificing

• Cycle to Work Scheme and Tech Scheme

• Growing business with a global presence, flexible working, modern offices, and remote work options

Our DEI Commitment

We welcome the unique value and individuality that you can bring to BigHand. We are an equal opportunity employer and are dedicated to recruiting solely based on capability and potential regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, educational background, national origin, religion, military status or physical ability. Our BigHanders are dedicated to advancing our culture of belonging by embracing differing viewpoints, opinions, thoughts, and ideas.