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TechOps Engineer (Contract) - Remote (UK)
We are looking for a TechOps Engineer to help operate, stabilise, and modernise an Azure-hosted platform running Java/Spring Boot microservices on RHEL. This role is hands-on and production-focused: 24/7 operations, incident management, deep troubleshooting, security remediation, and building a more codified, automated platform using Terraform, GitHub Actions, and Ansible, with centralised observability via Elastic (ELK).
Required Skills
* Azure operations (production): VMs, VNet, NSG, Load Balancer, App Gateway/WAF, Firewall, Virtual WAN, Key Vault, private endpoints, VPN
* Linux: Strong hands-on RHEL administration (hardening, patching, tuning); experience with enterprise production estates
* Production support / incident response: L2/L3 escalation, RCA, permanent fixes; comfortable in 24/7 operations and on-call rotation
* Deep troubleshooting: Across OS, network, middleware, JVM, and database using logs/metrics, heap/thread dumps, packet captures
* Java platform support: Supporting Java/Spring Boot microservices and related middleware; JVM performance diagnosis (GC, threads, latency, memory)
* Observability: Elastic Stack (cluster ops, ILM, Logstash, Kibana) plus Prometheus/Alertmanager/Grafana/Azure Monitor; strong JVM observability
* Automation / delivery as code: Terraform + GitHub Actions + Ansible; scripting with Python and/or Bash
* ITSM tooling: Jira Service Management (plus solid runbooks/docs habits)
Nice to Have Skills
* Experience with Azure Front Door, Cloudflare, Nginx, TLS
* Familiarity with components such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, MongoDB, ZooKeeper, Nacos
* Strong exposure to DR/failover readiness and backup/restore testing at scale (Azure Backup, DR region failover)
* Working knowledge of PAM / secure access patterns (e.g., Entra ID, RBAC, PIM, Bastion, Zscaler ZPA)
Preferred Education and Experience
* 8+ years in TechOps / Infrastructure / SRE / Production Operations
* Demonstrable history supporting high-availability, production systems with demanding uptime and security requirements
* Background in regulated or high-availability digital sectors (gaming a plus)
Other Requirements
* On-site working
* Participation in a regular 24/7 on-call rotation
* Strong communication skills for incident leadership, post-incident reviews, and cross-team collaboration (Security/SOC/NOC, Platform, Development)
If you’re a hands-on TechOps/SRE who enjoys digging into real production problems and leaving systems better than you found them, apply now and we’ll share full details and next steps quickly.
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