About the role
Faktion is looking for a DevOps Engineer to help deploy, scale and maintain our projects, apps and platforms.
As an Azure DevOps/Cloud Engineer, you build scalable and future-proof platforms by combining infrastructure, security and automation.
SOME KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
* Set up and automate CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps for builds, tests and deployments
* Manage scalable and secure cloud infrastructure on Azure (and in the future AWS) with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Bicep)
* Containerise and roll out ML services and Node services via Docker and Kubernetes
* Monitor and resolve performance and connectivity issues
* Think about infrastructure architecture, networks, continuity and disaster recovery
* Design and enforce cloud security controls: network segmentation, private endpoints, WAF, RBAC/least privilege, and secret management with automated rotation
* Build and maintain observability: centralised logging, metrics, tracing (OpenTelemetry), dashboards, SLIs/SLOs, and actionable alerting
* Cost monitoring and optimisation of resources
* Make clean documentation/architecture diagrams
* Proven experience managing Node.js services in production, with skills in containerization, Docker image optimisation, and diagnosing performance and memory bottlenecks.
* Networking fundamentals: DNS, TLS, load balancing, firewalls, and private networking patterns
* Disaster recovery: backup strategies, restore drills, recovery
Requirements
* At least 5 years of experience in architecture, infrastructure, DevOps and/or Azure
* Experience with Terraform and/or Bicep for the rollout of cloud infrastructure (AWS experience is a plus)
* Practical experience with Azure DevOps and Docker
* Understanding of the software development lifecycle
* You can work independently and take responsibility
NICE TO HAVES:
* knowledge on cybersecurity and best practices
* Experience operating data/queue services from an SRE perspective
WE OFFER:
* A rewarding salary package that includes additional perks like a company car and fuel card or a mobility budget, comprehensive hospitalisation, group insurance, and a top-tier laptop and smartphone
* A company culture that stimulates both individual and team development, fostering professional growth and leadership opportunities
* Regular team-building activities and gatherings provide great opportunities to unwind and engage with our vibrant team initiatives
* A flexible hybrid working policy to choose where, how, and when you want to work
* Opportunities to represent Faktion at industry conferences and events