TechOps Engineer
Contract | £400 per day
We’re partnering with a technology-led organisation to appoint an experienced TechOps Engineer to operate, stabilise and scale Azure-based production platforms.
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.
• Improving platform reliability through automation, scripting and CI/CD.
• Participating in a 24/7 on-call rotation.
About You
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.
Why Apply?
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.
• A technically challenging role supporting business-critical production services.
• The opportunity to influence platform reliability, security and automation.
• Close collaboration with engineering, security, SOC and NOC teams.
• The opportunity to implement lasting improvements across production operations.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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