Senior DevOps Engineer (AKS / Kubernetes)

Senior DevOps Engineer (AKS / Kubernetes) Apply here! We usually respond within three days Senior DevOps Engineer (AKS / Kubernetes) Contract, 3 months (initial), Outside IR35 The role We're hiring a senior DevOps engineer to join a small, sharp engineering team building serious infrastructure in the payments space. You'd work as an embedded part of that team, not a standalone consultant handing work back over the fence. There's an existing proof-of-concept Azure cluster in place. Your first job is to validate it, then harden and complete it, and take ownership of the platform going forward. What you'll be doing: Completing and maintaining an Azure (AKS) cluster and its GitOps pipeline. Hardening security through Azure Managed Identity and proper secrets handling. Owning the MSAL gateway and Databricks authentication flow. Validating the current POC, recommending improvements, and implementing them. Writing the documentation that supports handover and ongoing maintenance. What we need from you: Strong hands-on AKS and Kubernetes experience at senior level. Solid Azure identity work (Managed Identity, MSAL, secrets). GitOps experience. Comfort picking up someone else's build, assessing it honestly, and improving it. Someone who slots into a team, their repos, their equipment, their ways of working, and gets on with people. Working arrangements While there's no set number of days you're required on site, there will be times when the client needs the team together in person for important meetings, workshops and key moments. When that's the case, we'd expect you to attend. To make that work, you'll need to be based within 50 miles of one of our offices in Edinburgh, Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester or London. Shape of the work: Immediate start, though we'll consider people on short notice periods. Intense for the first 6 to 8 weeks, then moving into ad-hoc, burst-style support across the 3 month term. You'll work closely with the team's technical lead. If that's you, apply and we'll move quickly. Department Engineering Role DevOps Engineer (Azure) Locations Multiple locations Employment type Contract Remote status Fully flexible! No expectation to come to the office but you're also free to use the office when you fancy!!