[Hiring] DevSecOps Engineer @MBR Partners

Role Description

We are looking for a UK remote DevOps engineer responsible for designing, building, and maintaining our clients' Azure cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. The Cultural fit is vital for the success of this role. The company's values are Human; overdeliver; honesty; working collaboratively. If these values resonate with you, then please get in touch with me.

What will you be doing on a day to day basis:

• Focus on hosting and scaling .NET applications, ensuring they are secure and run reliably for retail customers around the clock.
• Work closely with the Head of Technology Delivery and the broader engineering team, provisioning and operating their Azure environment.
• Build and maintain deployment pipelines, keeping the platform observable, secure, and cost-efficient.
• Make active use of AI coding assistants to accelerate infrastructure and automation work.
• Implement and maintain controls, backups, and monitoring related to security posture, disaster recovery, business continuity, and incident response.
• Play a central role in supporting incident resolution when issues arise.
• Ensure the reliability, performance, and efficiency of the platform.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage infrastructure on Azure using Bicep and Terraform, following infrastructure-as-code standards and promoting automation across the team.
• Build and maintain hosting environments for .NET applications, including Azure App Services, Azure SQL, Storage Queues/Tables, and Cosmos DB.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment across all environments.
• Make effective use of AI coding assistants (e.g. GitHub Copilot) to accelerate the creation of pipelines, IaC templates, and automation scripts.
• Monitor infrastructure performance, cost, and security across environments, troubleshooting issues and flagging risks proactively.
• Implement and maintain the security controls, access controls, patching, and backup routines defined by the Head of Technology Delivery.
• Support incident response for infrastructure and platform issues, carrying out day-to-day triage and resolution and contributing to post-incident improvements.
• Implement tools for threat detection, vulnerability management, and security reporting to help mitigate issues and ensure compliance.
• Collaborate with the development team to support application architecture and deployment best practice, as well as enforcing secure coding standards.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a DevOps / Cloud Engineering role.
• Strong hands-on experience with Azure cloud services.
• Proficiency in Terraform and Bicep for infrastructure-as-code.
• Experience hosting and supporting .NET applications in production.
• Solid understanding of Azure App Services, Azure SQL, Storage Queues/Tables, and Cosmos DB.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling (e.g. Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions).
• Comfortable using AI coding assistants (e.g. GitHub Copilot) to speed up scripting and pipeline development.
• Security-conscious mindset, able to implement and maintain controls defined by others and flag gaps.
• A collaborative and pragmatic approach, able to work effectively alongside developers and communicate infrastructure concepts clearly to non-specialists.

Ideal Qualifications

• Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400).
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate.
• Familiarity with monitoring/observability tools, e.g., Azure Monitor, Application Insights.

Personal Profile

• Demonstrates tenacity, perseverance and willingness to 'get the job done'.
• Accountable: lives up to commitments and follows through diligently.
• Problem-solver: proactively diagnoses issues and delivers suitable solutions.
• Can work independently but enjoys being part of a team.
• Willingly shares knowledge with peers and uses own initiative and resources to gain further expertise.
• Close attention to detail.

Benefits

• Great benefits package.
• Competitive salary.