TechOps Engineer

This is an excellent opportunity for a hands-on infrastructure or production operations specialist with strong experience across Microsoft Azure, RHEL and Java/Spring Boot microservices. You’ll support business-critical platforms in a 24/7 environment, taking ownership of incident management, security remediation, CI/CD and automation.

The Opportunity

As TechOps Engineer, you’ll be responsible for the reliability, security and performance of complex UAT and production environments hosted on Azure.

You’ll act as a senior escalation point for L2 and L3 incidents, diagnosing issues across infrastructure, applications and middleware while driving root-cause analysis and permanent resolutions.

This is a highly technical role requiring strong production operations experience, confident incident leadership and the ability to improve platform reliability through automation and effective CI/CD practices.

Key Responsibilities

You’ll play a key role in maintaining secure, resilient and scalable production platforms by:

• Building and supporting UAT and production environments within Microsoft Azure.

• Performing hands-on RHEL administration, including hardening, patching, performance tuning and troubleshooting.

• Acting as an escalation point for L2 and L3 incidents.

• Leading root-cause analysis and implementing permanent fixes for recurring issues.

• Supporting Java and Spring Boot microservices in production environments.

• Diagnosing JVM issues relating to memory, garbage collection, threads and latency.

• Driving security vulnerability remediation across operating systems, middleware and cloud infrastructure.

• Collaborating with Security, SOC and NOC teams during incident response and post-incident reviews.

• Managing incidents, problems and changes through Jira Service Management.

• Maintaining operational runbooks, dashboards and technical documentation.

You’ll be an experienced TechOps, Infrastructure, SRE or Production Operations professional with a strong technical background and the ability to support complex, business-critical platforms.

You will also have:

• At least eight years of experience within TechOps, Infrastructure, Site Reliability Engineering or Production Operations.

• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure services, including Virtual Machines, VNets, Network Security Groups, Load Balancers, Application Gateway, Azure Firewall, Bastion, Key Vault, Blob Storage, Redis and MySQL.

• Knowledge of Azure Front Door, Cloudflare, Layer 7 load balancing, TLS, VPNs and private endpoints.

• Advanced RHEL administration experience within enterprise production environments.

• Proven experience supporting Java and Spring Boot microservices and middleware in production.

• Strong knowledge of Nginx and technologies such as Dubbo, Nacos, ZooKeeper, Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ and Redis.

• Advanced Elasticsearch experience, including cluster operations, indexing and performance tuning.

• Strong observability experience across the ELK Stack, Micrometer, Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor and JVM monitoring.

• Experience with Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions and Git-based delivery workflows.

• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python and Bash.

• Experience with Terraform and working knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes and GitOps practices.

• Strong incident, problem and change management capabilities.

• Proven experience conducting root-cause analysis and implementing lasting resolutions.

• Familiarity with ITIL principles and service management practices.

• Experience using Jira Service Management and Confluence.

• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with technical, security and operational teams.

• The flexibility to support 24/7 operations and participate in an on-call rotation.

This is a fantastic opportunity to take ownership of critical Azure-based platforms within a complex production environment.

In return, you’ll benefit from:

• A competitive £400 day rate.

• Exposure to a broad modern technology stack across cloud, infrastructure, middleware and observability.