Senior DevOps Engineer, Azure

About us

Highland IT provides managed IT for offices of 10 to 200 users: help desk, patching, backups, Microsoft 365 and firewall management. After-hours on-call comes around every fourth week.

Position summary

We are backfilling a position after an internal move. DevOps role with a strong infrastructure-as-code focus. Most of what we run is defined in Terraform and deployed through GitHub Actions. We are moving workloads from VMs to Kubernetes and want someone who has done that kind of migration before. Our team is spread across 20 countries. Headquarters is in London. You will join as an independent contractor on a long-term agreement. Payment is monthly in USD. Working hours overlap with UK business hours.

Essential duties and responsibilities

• Script repetitive tasks in Bash, Python or PowerShell
• Handle secrets with HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager or Azure Key Vault
• Participate in on-call and incident response
• Run Kubernetes clusters on EKS, AKS or GKE and maintain Helm charts
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or Azure DevOps
• Support developers with environment issues, failed builds and deployment questions

What we're looking for

• 5+ years in DevOps, systems engineering or a related infrastructure role
• Strong Terraform or CloudFormation skills
• Understanding of observability tools and how to design useful alerts

Why work with us

Salary range: $3,900 - $4,800/month

• Paid time off
• Annual rate review
• Company laptop
• Paid in USD

This posting may close early if we receive enough applications.

Duration: 9 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Highland IT.