Senior DevOps Engineer II

Duties and Responsibilities – Platform Engineering

• Implement and optimize workflows, including Git/GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), to streamline development and delivery processes.
• Identify potential areas for improvements, work with leaders to articulate them and champion your ideas through to completion.
• Support engineering operations, product delivery, and technical research initiatives.
• Creating, operating and managing Kubernetes clusters and workloads running on them.

Duties and Responsibilities – Monitoring & Observability

• Design and maintain monitoring, alerting, and logging systems (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor) to ensure system health and performance.
• Troubleshoot and resolve critical production issues, delivering under pressure when required.
• Conduct root cause analysis and post-mortems for incidents, driving improvements to prevent recurrence.

Duties and Responsibilities – Security & Compliance

• Implement DevSecOps practices, integrating security checks into CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with the Compliance team to ensure adherence to industry standards and regulatory requirements.
• Assist with technical customer queries and contribute to audit and compliance documentation.

Duties and Responsibilities - Collaboration & Communication

• Foster a team-oriented environment by mentoring peers, offering constructive code reviews, and sharing knowledge across the organization.
• Communicate proactively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring transparency around progress, risks, and opportunities.
• Take ownership of deliverables, driving tasks to completion and proactively suggesting improvements to existing processes.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs)

• Strong understanding of Cloud technology – specifically Azure.
• Advanced understanding of networking concepts e.g. ingress, NAT, firewalls etc.
• Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment. 
• Understanding of security and automating security in the pipeline.
• Awareness of data regulatory and privacy concerns.
• Proactive approach to service delivery. 
• Ability to effectively prioritize tasks and deliver to deadlines. 
• Willingness to work independently or collaboratively. 
• Ability to break down and explain complex concepts. 
• Desire and ability to deliver work independently and solve problems pragmatically. 
• Excellent written & verbal communication skills. 

Required Education and Experience

• 5+ years working in a cloud engineering role.
• Experience working in a highly available production environment. 
• Experience working directly for a product or SaaS company. 
• Experience working as part of a global operations team. 

Preferred Education and Experience

• Certifications in Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes (e.g., Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer, Terraform Associate, Certified Kubernetes Administrator).
• Familiarity with data governance and security best practices (e.g., RBAC, data masking, encryption).
• Demonstrated leadership in platform engineering best practices or architecture-level design.

Job Title

• The person hired for this role will have the job title "Senior Engineer II"