Senior Infrastructure Quality Engineer

Dayshape; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 48,000 - 58,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Pension

33 days holiday per year

Sabbatical after 5 years

Family leave policies

Professional development budget

Wellbeing programme

Volunteer time

Team events & All Hands

Job summary

Dayshape is hiring a Senior Infrastructure Quality Engineer to join our Infrastructure Platform team. You will own and evolve infrastructure quality, implement testing strategies for IaC, and partner with engineers to ensure reliable, observable deployments at scale.

You will shape testing approaches for deployment workflows, promote safe releases, and mentor junior QA/Infra engineers. Hybrid work from Edinburgh is available with uk-based flexibility.

Qualifications

• Significant experience owning quality assurance for infrastructure and IaC.
• Strong understanding of risk-based testing for infrastructure changes.
• Ability to define and evolve infrastructure testing strategies.
• Experience collaborating with engineers to improve quality and release confidence.
• Hands-on with Azure cloud and related tooling.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.
• Ability to coach and mentor junior QA/Infra Engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead designing pragmatic testing approaches and quality gates for infrastructure changes.
• Validate end-to-end deployment workflows, including CI/CD behaviour.
• Manage IaC release promotion across environments (sandbox to prod).
• Ensure IaC and software version compatibility and rollback mechanisms.
• Coach engineers on deployable, observable, and resilient platform changes.
• Identify and test failure scenarios and edge cases (pipeline, config drift).
• Build automated validation for infrastructure behaviour within pipelines.
• Communicate risks and trade-offs to enable informed release decisions.
• Evolve quality practices for the platform as system scales.
• Mentor QA and Infra Engineers on best practices.

Skills

Infrastructure QA

IaC testing

Azure

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Release governance

Coaching

SRE collaboration

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub

IaC tooling

Monitoring tools

Job description

About Us

We’reDayshape—an award-winning software scale-up with big ambitions and the momentum to match. Trusted by Big Four and many other top professional services firmsglobally, our AI-powered resource management platform is helping organisations to achieve extraordinary results.

Our platform stands apart as the only solution that combinesadvanced AI, real-time project financials, and firm-wide insights to elevate resource management to a strategic function. By driving profitable growth,powering confident decisions,and ensuring satisfied clients andteams—we'rehelping our customers build strong organisations and careers for the long term.

Why our customers loveDayshape:

• We help professional firms optimise margins and increase revenue, unlocking access to more profitable work.


• We provide complete operational visibility today and the tools to confidently predict tomorrow.


• We empower firms to become the placeswhere top talent wants to work- andthe bestclients wantto work with.

AtDayshape, our purpose is to improve people's working lives, and our culture is an importantdriving force in helping us to do just that.We'rea friendly, inclusive, and ambitious team—driven by ourvaluesand a shared commitment to success. Ifyou’reready to join a fast-growing, high-impact companythat’sreimagining resource management, thenlet'stalk.

About the Role

As our platform continues to scale, we are investing heavily in our infrastructure, reliability, and deployment capabilities.

We are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Quality Engineer to work within our Infrastructure Platform team, ensuring that our systems are reliable, scalable, observable, and safe to release. This is an exciting new role for us at Dayshape and an opportunity to help shape how we approach infrastructure quality as we continue to scale.

This role will focus on defining and putting in place our approach and strategy for testing infrastructure, infrastructure deployments, and the non-functional aspects of our platform. You will take ownership of building confidence in how our infrastructure and systems behave under real-world conditions, including failure, load, change, and recovery.

You will play a leading role in establishing and embedding quality practices across infrastructure engineering, working closely with engineers to improve testability, observability, resilience, and release confidence. As a senior member of the team, you will be expected to bring strong technical judgement, challenge existing approaches where appropriate, and help set the standard for infrastructure quality.

This role does not own production boundaries in the way an SRE role would, and it is not an on-call or incident management/coordination position. It is also distinct from a traditional product QA role. Your focus will primarily be on:

• Infrastructure changes, including Infrastructure as Code (IaC), environments, and pipelines


• System behaviour under failure, stress, and degraded conditions


• Deployment orchestration, release safety, and rollback capability

What You Will Do

• Lead on designing and implementing pragmatic testing approaches and quality gates for infrastructure and platform changes


• Validate deployment workflows end-to-end, including: CI/CD pipeline behaviour


• IAC release promotion (sandbox -> dev -> internal QA -> staging -> prod)


• IAC version and software version compatibility


• Rollback and recovery mechanisms


• Coach engineers and SREs around making sure platform changes are: Deployable with confidence (repeatable, reliable releases)


• Coach engineers and SREs around making sure platform changes are: Observable (clear signals via logs, metrics, and alerts)


• Coach engineers and SREs around making sure platform changes are: Resilient under failure conditions


• Identify and test failure scenarios and edge cases, such as: Pipeline failures or partial deployments


• Identify and test failure scenarios and edge cases, such as: Misconfiguration of infrastructure or environments


• Identify and test failure scenarios and edge cases, such as: Service degradation or dependency failures


• Perform exploratory testing of infrastructure changes, focusing on: Deployment risks


• Perform exploratory testing of infrastructure changes, focusing on: Integration points between services and environments


• Perform exploratory testing of infrastructure changes, focusing on: Configuration drift and inconsistencies


• Build and improve automated validation for infrastructure and platform behaviour, including checks within or alongside pipelines where appropriate


• Clearly identify and communicate risks and trade-offs associated with infrastructure changes, enabling informed release decisions


• Lead on evolving quality practices for the platform, defining how infrastructure changes are validated as the system scales


• Mentor and coach junior QA Engineers, and Infra Engineers around best practices for QA

About you

• Significant experience owning quality assurance for infrastructure and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), with infrastructure quality as a core area of expertise.


• A strong understanding of risk-based testing, with the judgement to make pragmatic quality trade-offs based on risk, impact, and release confidence.


• Comfortable working in ambiguous or evolving problem spaces, defining an approach where one may not already exist.


• Proven experience defining and evolving infrastructure testing strategies, introducing appropriate tooling and practices, and building confidence in complex deployment and release processes.


• Confidence collaborating closely with engineers, challenging assumptions and influencing technical decisions to improve quality, reliability, and testability.


• Hands‑on experience with Azure, with a good understanding of the quality considerations associated with cloud infrastructure.


• Experience working with Azure DevOps and GitHub, particularly around CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure changes, and deployment workflows.


• Strong communication skills, with the ability to identify and articulate technical and quality risks clearly to support informed decision-making.


• A desire to coach and mentor QA Engineers, sharing expertise and helping others develop their technical and quality engineering capabilities.

Bonus Points

• Experience with performance or load testing


• Experience working closely with SRE or Platform teams


• Experience with Internal Developer Platforms


• Exposure to monitoring/observability tools

What You’ll Get

• Starting salary between £47,500 and £57,500 depending on experience


• At least £1,000 per year to spend on professional and personal development


• 33 days' holiday per year (including bank holidays), increasing by 1 day each year to a maximum of 40 days


• Paid four-week sabbatical in your fifth anniversary year on top of your holiday entitlement


• Enhanced family leave policies


• Private healthcare and rewards through AXA


• Income protection and death in service cover


• Matched 5% auto-enrolment workplace pension scheme


• Access to wellbeing offerings, such as our Employee Assistance Programme and a dedicated counselling service


• Volunteering time – up to 20 hours a year to participate in volunteer work


• Regular All Hands meeting for inspiration and over-communication


• Time out of the working week for team socials each month, with a mix of in-person and virtual options: past events include hiking, family BBQs, board games and at-home cocktail classes!


• Genuinely nice, smart people to work with, who are excited about growing our company

Working Details

This is a full-time role (37.5 hours per week). We typically work from 09:00 - 17:30 from Monday to Friday, though we can be flexible around this, just let us know.

We’re ideally looking for someone in/around Edinburgh, able to work on a hybrid basis between home and our Haymarket office. We don't mandate required office days, but we find that most of the team enjoy working from the office 2-3 days a week to connect with their team and other Dayshapers and to make use of space, and for meetings and collaboration.We are open to considering remote for the right candidate, as long as you are based in the UK.

Join the team!

Equality of opportunity is more than just a responsibility: we believe it’s a huge advantage to welcome a variety of experiences and perspectives into the team. Diversity is a great asset and, as such, we strongly encourage applications from any background.

This is your opportunity to really influence how we get things done, andhow ourproduct develops to meet our customer’s needs.We'redoing well, butthere'sslots more to doin order tomaintainthe high bar and pace thatwe'veset.

If your experienceisn'tan exact match for this job description, but you have transferrable skills/experience that you think would be a great fit. Everyone here is growing personally as the company grows, so if that sounds like somethingyou’dlike to be part of,we’dlove to see your application.

*Please note the successful candidate for this role will be subject to background checks and will have an opportunity to declare anything to us beforehand*