DevOps Engineer

• Applies deep technical expertise in infrastructure automation, environment provisioning, and deployment pipelines supporting the EDP platform and its AI/ML workloads.
• Designs, maintains, and supports the CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, enabling frequent, reliable deployments to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Manages containerisation using Docker, builds and publishes container images to registries, and ensures secure and efficient AKS cluster deployments.
• Implements infrastructure as code using Terraform, including network, security, and compute resources.
• Supports Airflow as part of platform orchestration.
• Collaborates closely with Data Engineers, MLOps Engineers, and Solution Architects to ensure the infrastructure and pipelines meet performance, scalability, and compliance requirements.
• Follows best practices for platform security, auditing, and cost management, aligning with enterprise Landing Zone (LZ) policies.

Core Duties

Typical duties include (but are not limited to):

· Design and implement GitLab-based CI/CD pipelines for deploying containerised services to AKS.

· Build and maintain Dockerfiles and container image workflows, pushing to internal container registries.

· Define and manage AKS cluster configurations, ensuring secure and scalable workloads.

· Write and maintain Terraform modules for provisioning cloud infrastructure in line with Azure Landing Zone standards.

· Manage secrets, configuration, and access using Azure Key Vault and Azure AD.

· Ensure connectivity between on-prem services and Azure cloud infrastructure using GreenLink and hybrid networking.

· Collaborate with MLOps and Data Engineers to ensure reproducible, reliable, and auditable infrastructure across environments.

· Monitor system health, logging, and metrics using platform observability tools (e.g. Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana where applicable).

The role holder is accountable for:

• Work as a core contributor to the EDP team and participate in AWG (Architecture Working Group) discussions.
• Champion automation and DevOps best practices across the team.
• Help define infrastructure patterns and contribute to reusable platform modules.
• Support the governance of new marketplace requests via the POC process.

· Azure Landing Zone principles, vNet design, RBAC, networking, and hybrid connectivity.

· CI/CD tooling, especially GitLab CI/CD.

· Container orchestration (AKS) and Docker best practices.

· Infrastructure as code (Terraform or Bicep).

· Networking principles, including hub/spoke topology and private endpoints.

Skills:

· Writing and debugging CI/CD pipelines.

· Building container images using Docker.

· Managing infrastructure lifecycle in Azure using IaC.

· Collaborating across technical and non-technical teams.

· Understanding and applying secure coding and deployment principles.

· Troubleshooting system and deployment issues at infrastructure level, · Relevant degree or equivalent experience.