DevOps Engineer London, UK (3 days in office) SC Cleared: Required Experience: 5-8 years Platform Design & Development: * Design, develop, and maintain the core platform infrastructure on Azure, including networking, compute, storage, security, and identity management. * Implement infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, ARM templates, or Bicep to automate infrastructure provisioning and management. Azure Databricks Integration & Optimisation: * Deeply integrate Azure Databricks into the platform, ensuring seamless access and efficient resource utilisation. * Implement automation for Databricks workspace setup, cluster configuration, and job deployments. * Optimise Databricks workloads for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. Containerisation & Orchestration: * Implement and manage containerised applications and services using Docker and Kubernetes (or Azure Kubernetes Service - AKS). * Design and implement container orchestration strategies for deploying and scaling platform components. CI/CD Pipeline Automation: * Design and implement robust CI/CD pipelines for building, testing, and deploying platform components and user applications. Monitoring, Logging & Alerting: * Implement comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to proactively identify and address performance issues, errors, and security threats. * Use tools like Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar to collect and analyse metrics, logs, and traces. * Configure alerts and notifications to ensure timely responses to critical events. Documentation & Support: * Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation for the platform, including API documentation, user guides, and troubleshooting guides. Essential Skills & Experience: * 5 years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps engineering, or a related role. * Strong experience with Azure cloud platform and services. * Extensive experience with IaC tools like Terraform, ARM templates, or Bicep. Solid understanding of CI/CD principles and experience with CI/CD tools like Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or GitLab CI. * Strong experience with containerisation technologies like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes (or AKS). * Experience with monitoring and logging tools. * Scripting skills in PowerShell, Bash, YAML and Python. * Experience with Azure Databricks and its integration with platform tooling * Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet, or Chef. * Azure certifications (e.g., Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Solutions Architect Expert)