Azure DevOps Platform Engineer (London Area)

Job Title: Azure DevOps Platform Engineer

Job Type: Permanent

Location: London (Hybrid)

Industry: Fintech Startup

Salary: £60,000-£65,000 (Dependant on experience)

Skills: Azure, Containerisation, Kubernetes, AKS, Docker, Azure SQL, Service Bus

Roc Search are looking for an experienced DevOps Platform Engineer with deep expertise in Azure, Azure DevOps, and related technologies to join an exciting fast-paced Fintech startup client in London. The successful candidate will work alongside their Lead Systems Engineer. In this role, you’ll implement, manage, and support mission-critical, client-facing Azure environment using best practices in Infrastructure as Code, container orchestration, automation, CI/CD, and disaster recovery – all within a collaborative, fast-paced setting.

This will be suited for a Mid Level Engineer with 2-5 years of DevOps experience

Responsibilities:

▪ Maintain and configure scalable, highly available, and secure Azure hosted solutions

▪ Provide support for business-critical infrastructure resources and application components, across development, test and client production environments

▪ Manage Entra ID for secure identity management and access control

▪ Configure, maintain and manage Azure Kubernetes clusters, that host cloud-native applications

▪ Configure, maintain and manage CI/CD tooling, branch policies and pipeline agents

▪ Respond and investigate security alerts generated by Microsoft Sentinel

▪ Configure and maintain end user compute policies with Microsoft Intune

▪ Maintain and contribute to the security and compliance plan, including regular involvement in penetration testing, escrow deposits, backup verification and BCP testing

▪ Work across development and production environments, independently, with colleagues and with third-party suppliers, to ensure robust application performance

▪ Monitor and support our production platform, conduct troubleshooting whilst collaborating with the Development team, and resolving issues within the agrees service level agreements (SLAs)

Essential Requirements:

▪ Experience working with Microsoft Azure, alongside Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform)

▪ Proven knowledge of configuring and managing Azure SQL, Service Bus, AKS Clusters, Container Registries, Entra ID, SignalR and Azure Networking technologies

▪ Experience with containerisation (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes, Helm) is essential

▪ Proven expertise in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps) and leveraging automation tools to streamline deployments and operations

▪ Strong knowledge of PowerShell and YAML for configuration management and automated deployments

▪ Applied experience of designing and implementing disaster recovery plans with low RTO and RPOs

▪ Great attention to detail, and meticulous in every aspect of the day-to-day work

▪ Excellent written and verbal communication and collaborative skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

▪ Experience with incident, monitoring and alert management, following ITIL processes

▪ Strong understanding of security and data protection practices

▪ Strong experience in DevOps practices such as continuous integration and deployment, and proficiency with Git and branching strategies

▪ Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment

Desirable Requirements:

▪ Familiarity with SQL, with the ability to understand schemas and write basic queries

▪ Understanding of authentication and authorisation protocols (OAuth2, OIDC, SAML), and the various flows available for different scenarios

▪ Familiarity with REST and gRPC APIs, event-driven architecture and microservice patterns

This role is suited for a candidate who is:

▪ A technical specialist in Azure and Azure DevOps

▪ Passionate about supporting projects, but also dedicated to delivering exceptional, high-quality solutions as part of a tight-knit team

▪ Driven and eager to grow and achieve their highest potential, in an environment offering exposure to cutting-edge solutions and the chance to work extremely talented teams

▪ Wants to be mentored from experienced individuals in the FinTech sector

▪ Interested in the end client and their business

This is a hybrid role in the City of London