DevOps Engineer | Live Entertainment Company in United Kingdom

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, which manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a DevOps Engineer | Live Entertainment Company based in United Kingdom. Join a technology team supporting large-scale live entertainment productions and high-traffic ticketing platforms across multiple European markets. As a DevOps Engineer, you will build, secure, and operate cloud infrastructure on Microsoft Azure, enabling reliable application delivery and seamless digital experiences. You will work with Kubernetes, containerized workloads, and infrastructure as code to develop scalable, resilient, and secure platforms. Collaborating closely with platform leadership and product development teams, you will help modernize infrastructure and streamline deployment processes. Your work will span networking, automation, observability, security, and continuous delivery in a complex, business-critical environment. This is an opportunity to take ownership of essential cloud platforms while helping technology teams deliver dependable services in the fast-paced live entertainment industry. Accountabilities - Build and maintain cloud infrastructure: Design, provision, and manage Microsoft Azure resources using Terraform, applying modular infrastructure-as-code practices and maintaining consistency across multiple environments. - Manage Azure networking: Implement and operate secure hub-and-spoke network architectures, including virtual network peering, subnet design, IP address planning, and private connectivity between services. - Operate Kubernetes platforms: Provision, maintain, and optimize Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters and production container workloads, including node pools, autoscaling, ingress controllers, and cluster upgrades.

- Develop CI/CD pipelines: Build and maintain automated delivery workflows using GitHub Actions and/or Azure DevOps Pipelines to build container images, execute tests, publish artifacts, and deploy infrastructure and applications. - Implement GitOps delivery: Support reliable, repeatable application deployments to Kubernetes through GitOps workflows and appropriate configuration management practices. - Support application delivery: Help development teams build, containerize, deploy, and troubleshoot applications, particularly PHP and Node. js/React workloads, without requiring primary ownership of application development. - Configure routing and edge security: Manage DNS, TLS certificates, ingress, and gateway or web application firewall configurations to ensure secure and reliable application access. - Establish monitoring and observability: Implement centralized logging, metrics, dashboards, and proactive alerting using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and related tools. - Strengthen cloud security: Establish and maintain identity and access controls, Managed Identities, Azure RBAC, secrets management, and security policies across infrastructure and application environments. - Improve operational reliability: Investigate incidents, troubleshoot infrastructure and deployment issues, identify operational risks, and implement improvements that enhance platform stability and performance. - Contribute to technical architecture: Participate in architectural discussions, review technical proposals, document design decisions, maintain operational runbooks, and help establish engineering best practices. - Enable developer productivity: Support local development environments, Dockerfiles, Docker Compose configurations, and shared debugging workflows to make application development and deployment more efficient. Requirements - Professional experience: At least three years of experience in DevOps or platform engineering, including a minimum of two years supporting Microsoft Azure environments in production.