Senior DevOps Engineer

Position Overview: We are looking for a smart and motivated Senior DevOps Engineer to join our accesso Freedom team. You will assist the development team to fully automate, deploy and test new infrastructure and applications to ensure operational reliability. Input and implement deployment strategies with principles and architects. Collaborate with team members and own implementations. You will join a growing team supporting a new cloud native SaaS product collaborating with development and operational teams such as SREs, DevSecOps, and support to improve the platform and deliver requirements consistently and incrementally.

As a Senior member of the team, you will be expected to lead technical decisions, and help set standards and best practices across the infrastructure discipline.

Location: This role can be performed 100% remotely anywhere in the UK, at our office in Twyford, or a hybrid version of in-office and remote.

Reports to: IT Manager, Engineering

Travel Requirement: None

What you’ll be working on:

• Implement and manage cloud resources to support SaaS application deployments which are designed to be scalable, secure, performant, manageable and cost effective.
• Ensure that all aspects of the implementation are scripted and repeatably deployable through Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Share the responsibility for maintaining clean, efficient CI/CD pipelines with Developers and QA.
• Use an established release process to release to Staging and Production environments, Bi-Monthly, outside of normal working hours.
• Share the responsibility for building observability into the platform with Developers, QA and Site Reliability Engineers.
• Identification and Resolution of platform and pipeline issues/problems as they occur as well as proactively looking to improve the reliability and performance.
• Participate in retrospectives after events occur ensuring plans are put in place to prevent repeat occurrences.
• Work with security team to identify and resolve infrastructure vulnerabilities and deployment issues.
• Ensure data storage and services are deployed in accordance with company security policies and cloud best practices.
• Enhance and participate in DR dry runs.
• Vulnerability scanning and remediation across container images, clusters and IaC.
• Regular upgrades of components and touchpoints.
• Chaos engineering practices.
• Participate in the change management process.
• Focus on lean and improving DORA metrics.
• Evaluate, integrate, and operationalize AI-powered tooling (e.g., AI coding assistants, agentic AI workflows) to accelerate development and deployment processes.
• Champion the responsible adoption of AI-assisted automation across the engineering organization.
• Approach all work with Automation first approach, to reduce TOIL across all tasks and processes.
• Engage with architects, product owners, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into infrastructure solutions.

What you bring to the role:

• 5+ years of current experience at both design and hands-on levels with Azure cloud infrastructure.
• Professional experience with RBAC, key vault, VMs, VNETs, VPNs, NSGs, Git, Ubuntu WSL2, PowerShell, Azure CLI and Data platforms (SQL, ADF).
• Kubernetes deployment and management experience, with associated toolsets such as Kubernetes CLI, Helm, terraform, packer and ansible.
• Network management within Kubernetes with NGINX, service mesh, policy management, WAF.
• Infrastructure monitoring with the Grafana stack (Loki, Prometheus, Tempo).
• Scripting and automation with Bash and/or Python in addition to PowerShell.
• Experience in load/performance testing and tuning.
• Vulnerability management, such as Trivy or Kubescape.
• Azure Container registry management.
• Experience using AI-powered development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor) to improve engineering productivity.
• Experience with High Availability, DR/Business Continuity strategies.
• Must possess a positive attitude at work and make contributions to a healthy company culture.
• Strong problem-solving skills and logical troubleshooting approach.
• Required to join on call rotation (1 week in 4).

Bonus points if you have:

• Microsoft Azure Administrator / Architect or other relevant certification.
• Kubernetes Certified Administrator.
• Familiarity with agentic AI patterns - orchestrating autonomous AI agents for infrastructure management, incident response, or automated remediation.
• Secret management beyond Azure Key Vault.
• Understanding of POS, kiosk hardware, peripherals including OPOS drivers.

Perks & Benefits:

• Competitive compensation package including an annual bonus opportunity.
• 8-days of paid bank holiday leave and 26-days of paid annual leave.
• 8 hours of paid Volunteer Time Off.
• Inclusive Family Benefits, including a $7,500 benefit for surrogacy, adoption, and fertility.
• Robust health insurance scheme with the opportunity to participate in private medical scheme after satisfactory performance.
• Matching pension scheme (up to 8%).
• Gain unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning.
• Enjoy a flexible work schedule.

LIFE at accesso: At accesso, we believe that fun is a fundamental part of the workday! We’ve created a virtual environment with no shortage of connection. Work-life balance is important here too, so you’ll have flexibility in choosing the work setting and hours that fit your life best. We believe that diversity is vital to innovation and that when we celebrate what makes each of us unique, we create a more inclusive environment where you can truly thrive. Our people are our most treasured asset, and we are proud to have such talented, passionate and tech-savvy professionals on our team. We are dedicated to providing equal opportunities for all, and any hiring decisions will be assessed on qualifications, merit and business need.