Azure DevOps Platform Engineer - Fintech

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 agreed 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 with 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.