DevOps Engineer - Azure

International Permanent View Job Description
You will design, operate, and secure Azure‑based, Kubernetes‑centric infrastructure that underpins real‑time, model‑driven services
  • Own and evolve a cloud‑native Azure & Kubernetes platform at scale
  • Partner with engineering teams to run model‑driven, production services

About Our Client

This opportunity is with a large organisation in the financial services industry.

Job Description

  • Design, build, and manage production infrastructure on Microsoft Azure with Kubernetes as the core orchestration platform.
  • Operate, monitor, and scale Kubernetes‑based services, leading incident response and reliability improvements.
  • Partner with algorithm and application teams to deploy and run model‑serving and inference workloads in production.
  • Build and refine CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI) to enable fast, reliable releases.
  • Champion infrastructure‑as‑code, DevOps best practices, and enhanced observability across the engineering stack.



The Successful Applicant

  • Significant experience as a DevOps, Platform, or SRE Engineer supporting large‑scale, production systems.
  • Deep hands‑on expertise with Azure services, Kubernetes, and observability tooling for distributed systems.
  • Proven track record building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automating infrastructure through code.
  • Comfortable collaborating with software and algorithm teams on model‑related or AI‑driven services; LLM or GPU

What's on Offer

  • End‑to‑end ownership of a high‑impact Azure/Kubernetes platform, with direct influence over architecture, tooling, and DevOps practices.
  • Cutting‑edge exposure to AI/ML and potentially LLM and GPU‑based workloads, working closely with algorithm and product teams in real production environments
Contact
James Jefferson
Quote job ref
JN-022026-6937880

Job summary

Sector
Technology
Subsector
IT Development
Industry
Financial Services
Location
International
Contract type
Permanent
Consultant name
James Jefferson
Job reference
JN-022026-6937880