What you'll be doing:
- Designing reusable GitHub Actions workflows covering application builds, automated tests, security scanning and deployment into AKS.
- Automating releases through Dev, Test, UAT and Production, with controlled approvals, environment configuration and reliable rollback.
- Deploying and operating containerised microservices using Docker, ACR and Helm.
- Improving monitoring, logs, traces and alerting to identify customer-impacting issues.
- Strengthening availability, scaling and recovery across production workloads.
- Developing reusable infrastructure modules and managing Azure infrastructure through code.
- Troubleshooting application deployments, Kubernetes workloads, networking and service integrations.
What we're looking for:
- Strong commercial experience personally designing and operating production application CI/CD pipelines into AKS.
- Hands-on GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes and Helm experience.
- Strong Azure engineering and networking skills, including private endpoints, DNS, VNets and managed identities.
- Bicep experience, particularly reusable infrastructure modules; strong Terraform experience is also relevant.
- Production observability and incident troubleshooting experience using Datadog, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Prometheus/Grafana or similar.
- Practical understanding of safe releases, rollback, high availability and resilience.
- Ability to explain your own engineering decisions and give specific production examples.
Contract details:
- £525/day, outside IR35.
- Initial engagement until 18 December 2026, with potential extension.
- Immediate start preferred.
- First week onsite in Watford; remote thereafter, with further travel optional.
- One approximately 90-minute virtual interview combining technical discussion and a practical architecture exercise.
Rate:
£525/day
Location:
Watford
IR35 Status:
Outside
Remote Status:
Remote
Industry:
IT
Seniority Level:
Senior