Microsoft Azure Cloud/devops Engineer

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer (Azure) Location: East Cheshire – Hybrid Currently partnered with a scale up SaaS company in the Data space who\’re looking to bring it\’s Cloud / Platform engineering function in house through migrations, growth and stabilising its in-house platform engineering function. Team of 5 DevOps engineers. Looking for a talented and motivated DevOps Engineer to join a growing platform engineering team. Reporting to the Head of Platform Service, who has deep expertise in MongoDB, F5, and cloud technologies, you will collaborate to automate, deploy, and maintain systems with a focus on high availability and performance. Develop, automate, and maintain deployment pipelines, leveraging modern DevOps tools and practices. Work with cloud services, particularly Microsoft Azure, ensuring the platform’s reliability, scalability, and security. Administer and optimize MongoDB instances, ensuring high availability, performance, and scalability of the database environment. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive continuous improvements in system performance, security, and compliance. Contribute to creating robust monitoring and alerting systems to ensure service availability and uptime. Stay up to date with the latest DevOps practices, tools, and technologies, and actively participate in team knowledge sharing. Strong experience in a DevOps engineering role with hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure, preferably Microsoft Azure. Proficiency with MongoDB administration, performance tuning, and scaling techniques. Experience working with F5 load balancers and other networking tools to ensure application scalability and availability. Strong expertise in automation, deployment pipelines, and CI/CD practices using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps. Knowledge of security practices in cloud environments, ensuring regulatory compliance and data integrity. Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting systems (e.g., Experience with additional databases or data stores, such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or NoSQL technologies. Familiarity with scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell. Experience working in highly regulated environments and understanding the specific challenges around compliance and data integrity. Knowledge of F5 application delivery controllers (ADCs) and web application firewalls (WAF). Microsoft Azure certifications) or DevOps tools.