Senior DevOps Consultant

About BigHand

BigHand offers technology solutions for busy legal professionals that provide data and insights to increase value and profits. Through our expert knowledge and innovative technology, we enable our customers to achieve enhanced efficiency, better decision‑making and harness their competitive edge. We build with tomorrow in mind, transforming ideas into action and empowering our customers to succeed in a world of constant change. We make big happen for our customers. We are a business driven by our values and have these at the centre of everything we do. Our BigHanders are dedicated to building a culture where We Win Together, We Love to Learn, We Do the Right Thing, We Own It, and We Find the Fun.

About The Role

• Work on a greenfield AI transformation programme, building Azure cloud services from scratch.
• Actively promote DevOps ways of working and SRE best practices within teams.
• Work with DevOps/Platform Engineers, Developers, Architecture and Security to design, plan, implement and release necessary changes according to the needs of the business.
• Collaborate with other DevOps/Platform Engineers to provide templates and knowledge that facilitate smooth automation throughout a project lifecycle.
• Continuously drive improvements in processes, tooling and system architecture of the underlying infrastructure and capabilities.
• Work on everything from transitioning on‑prem services into Azure cloud (PaaS and IaaS services), helping move to and maintain orchestrated container‑based service architecture (Azure Kubernetes and Docker).
• Add, improve and maintain modules in our Terraform & PowerShell module library.
• Create and maintain an enterprise‑grade monitoring and alerting solution for applications, networks, data and infrastructure services.
• Assist in the creation of reports and dashboards for usage and uptime.
• Manage and monitor system health to ensure that issues are quickly identified and resolved.
• Collaborate with the IT operations and development teams to plan and execute system changes, e.g., security and audit controls as required by the business or compliance requirements.
• Automate build and release manual activities using DevOps best practices.

What You’ll Do

• Hands‑on working experience with Microsoft Azure Cloud services (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS), Security, Networking and Azure DevOps Pipelines.
• Hands‑on working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code using Ansible, Packer, Terraform and programming and/or scripting languages such as PowerShell, Bash, SQL, KQL.
• Hands‑on knowledge of CI/CD processes, including the integration of security & code quality tools.
• Hands‑on experience in engineering and automation of container orchestration with Kubernetes and Docker.
• Hands‑on experience in designing, implementing, testing and securing APIs.
• Hands‑on experience implementing security controls across data, infrastructure and applications primarily in Azure.
• Hands‑on knowledge of logging, monitoring and alerting tools.
• Hands‑on knowledge of setting up, maintaining and supporting Kubernetes environments using cloud providers, specifically Azure.
• Hands‑on experience implementing WAF solutions.

DEI Commitment

We welcome the unique value and individuality that you can bring to BigHand. We are an equal opportunity employer and are dedicated to recruiting solely based on capability and potential regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, educational background, national origin, religion, military status or physical ability. Our BigHanders are dedicated to advancing our culture of belonging by embracing different viewpoints, opinions, thoughts and ideas.