DevOps Engineer (HMRC & Security Cleared)

Job Description \n Role: SRE/DevOps Engineer (HMRC & Security Cleared) \n Location: London, UK \n Hybrid work \n Experience level - Junior and Senior profiles - we have both roles. \n Who are we looking for? \n We are seeking an experienced Microsoft SRE/DevOps Engineer holding active HMRC security clearance to build, automate, scale, and safeguard mission-critical cloud-native platforms, balancing feature delivery speed with strict reliability and uptime goals. This role leans heavily into code-driven automation, incident response, SLIs/SLOs, and error budgets, with emphasis on CI/CD pipelines, release management, and cross-team collaboration. \n Key Responsibilities: \n \n Cloud Infrastructure Management: Design, provision, and maintain Azure infrastructure (AKS, Azure Virtual Networks, Key Vault, Storage, and Load Balancers). \n CI/CD & Deployment: Build and manage automated build/release pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins. \n Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Write and maintain declarative infrastructure using Terraform, ARM templates, or Bicep. \n Reliability & Incident Response: Define Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and error budgets. Participate in on-call rotations and perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA)/postmortems. \n Observability & Monitoring: Implement telemetry, logging, and metrics dashboards using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog. \n Container & Kubernetes Operations: Manage Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Docker, Helm charts, and ingress/service mesh controllers. \n \n Preferred Qualifications : \n \n B.E/BTech \n Work Experience: Minimum experience of 8+ years \n Active HMRC Clearance: Must have HMRC security clearance. \n \n Key Competencies: \n \n Strong relationship-building skills. \n Excellent negotiation and persuasion skills. \n High attention to detail and organizational skills. \n Strong time management and multitasking abilities. \n