Senior Platform Engineer: Azure DevOps & Security

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

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Private medical

Wellbeing programs

Pension scheme

Cycle to Work

Remote work options

Job summary

BigHand is seeking a Platform/DevOps Engineer to join our London team. You will work with engineers, delivery managers and architects on cloud platform design, migration, automated deployment and security testing to deliver secure products and cloud platforms aligned with company OKRs.

You will champion DevSecOps, build Azure Landing Zones, manage AKS and Docker, develop IaC with Terraform, and help optimize cloud costs while maintaining incident response and recovery readiness.

Qualifications

• Azure IaaS, PaaS and SaaS across compute, networking, security and data.
• Strong Terraform skills and scripting in PowerShell, Bash, SQL, KQL and Packer.
• Experience with Azure DevOps YAML pipelines and CI/CD, including security/code quality tooling.

Responsibilities

• Champion DevSecOps: promote secure practices across the team and project lifecycle.
• Drive our cloud journey: migrate on‑prem services to multi‑region Azure platforms and grow AKS/Docker usage.
• Automate tooling: expand Terraform/PowerShell modules and reusable templates for the engineering team.
• Keep platforms healthy: implement monitoring, dashboards and uptime reporting.
• Own incidents and maintenance: triage, root-cause, and coordinate maintenance windows.
• Collaborate with architects and engineers to deliver secure, compliant cloud products and cost optimizations.

Skills

Azure

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Cloud security

DevSecOps

PowerShell/Bash

Azure DevOps

Incident response

Tools

AKS

Terraform

Packer

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

BigHand is seeking a Platform/DevOps Engineer to join our London team. You will work with engineers, delivery managers and architects on cloud platform design, migration, automated deployment and security testing to deliver secure products and cloud platforms aligned with company OKRs.

You will champion DevSecOps, build Azure Landing Zones, manage AKS and Docker, develop IaC with Terraform, and help optimize cloud costs while maintaining incident response and recovery readiness.