Senior DevOps Engineer: Azure, Kubernetes & CI/CD Architect

XYZ Reality; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working from London office

25 days annual leave + public holidays

Private healthcare with Vitality

Christmas shutdown days

Biannual salary reviews

Summer & Christmas events

Cycle to Work scheme

Job summary

XYZ Reality is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to own and scale the cloud infrastructure powering our BIM Platform from the London office. You’ll collaborate with Engineering, Data and Security to build reliable, scalable infrastructure and empower developers with self‑service tooling.

The role focuses on Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, and robust CI/CD pipelines, enabling fast, safe deployments while maintaining security and observability across the stack.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable in-depth DevOps, infrastructure or Cloud Engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Architect, maintain and evolve Azure infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, ARM templates and Helm.
• Design and improve CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
• Build observability across our infrastructure and services through monitoring, logging, alerting and distributed tracing.
• Improve platform reliability, scalability and performance through capacity planning, autoscaling and resource optimisation.
• Build and maintain disaster recovery, backup and failover strategies.
• Strengthen infrastructure security across areas including network policies, secrets management and platform hardening.
• Establish and improve incident response processes, on‑call practices, runbooks and blameless post‑mortems.
• Work with our Data team to support reliable and scalable PostgreSQL and MongoDB environments.
• Build self‑service tooling, templates and documentation that reduce unnecessary reliance on DevOps.
• Support infrastructure for data pipelines and AI/ML model deployment as our technology continues to evolve.
• Partner directly with developers on deployment, troubleshooting and infrastructure best practices.

Skills

DevOps

Azure

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Python/Go/Bash

Monitoring/Observability

Security

Docker

PostgreSQL/MongoDB

Tools

Terraform

ARM templates

Helm

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

Docker

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Job description

XYZ Reality is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to own and scale the cloud infrastructure powering our BIM Platform from the London office. You’ll collaborate with Engineering, Data and Security to build reliable, scalable infrastructure and empower developers with self‑service tooling.

The role focuses on Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, and robust CI/CD pipelines, enabling fast, safe deployments while maintaining security and observability across the stack.