Senior Devops Engineer - Remote (NI Based)

Ocho People; Belfast; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing software organisation is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to build, automate, and optimise cloud-native infrastructure in a remote or hybrid setting. The successful candidate will work with Azure, Kubernetes, and Terraform, enhancing reliability and deployment workflows. Applicants should have substantial experience in DevOps roles, with strong skills in CI/CD and cloud technologies. Competitive salary and benefits offered.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in a Senior DevOps/Platform Engineering role.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, Terraform, and Azure.
• CI/CD experience (GitOps/ArgoCD or similar).

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Azure-based AKS infrastructure.
• Deliver Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Enhance CI/CD pipelines using GitOps (ArgoCD) and automated testing.
• Implement observability across logging, monitoring, dashboards, and alerting.

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

Azure

CI/CD

Bash

Python

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Senior DevOps Engineer
Location: Remote or Hybrid - Belfast
Type: Permanent | Competitive salary + benefits

A growing software organisation is scaling its platform engineering function and is hiring two Senior DevOps Engineers to build, automate, and optimise cloud-native infrastructure supporting products used by tens of thousands of customers.

You’ll work across Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, and modern CI/CD tooling to drive reliability, automation, and deployment velocity.

Day-to-day:

• Build and maintain Azure-based AKS infrastructure.
• Deliver Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Enhance CI/CD pipelines using GitOps (ArgoCD) and automated testing.
• Implement observability across logging, monitoring, dashboards, and alerting.
• Improve performance, reliability, and deployment workflows for engineering teams.
• Embed security best practices and manage secrets, access, and vulnerability scanning.
• Support incident response, documentation, and on‑call rotation.
• Mentor engineers and influence platform strategy.

Experience:

• Strong experience in a Senior DevOps/Platform Engineering role.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, Terraform, and Azure.
• CI/CD experience (GitOps/ArgoCD or similar).
• Proficiency in Bash/Python and automation practices.
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana).
• Strong troubleshooting and distributed systems understanding.

Nice to Have: GitHub Actions, cloud networking, security tooling, FinOps, SQL/Postgres/Redis, AI/ML pipelines, SaaS background, ELK stack, DR/BCP.

If this sounds like you, apply now, or contact Andrew Harrison for more details.