Senior II DevOps Engineer
UK, Theale (Reading) · United Kingdom · Posted Oct 12, 2026
At a glance
- Location
- UK, Theale (Reading) · United Kingdom
About the role
- This is a hands-on role responsible for the operation, support and continuous improvement of cloud-based SaaS platforms.
- The position sits at the intersection of Platform Operations, DevOps and Application Support, requiring someone to support both operational activities and complex technical investigations.
- You will work closely with global Engineering, DevOps and Support teams to deliver secure, scalable and highly available services.
Responsibilities
- Monitor and support production SaaS platforms to ensure availability, performance and reliability.
- Investigate and resolve platform, deployment, application and authentication issues, including SSO-related incidents.
- Execute and support application deployments, configuration changes and release activities.
- Create, maintain and improve operational runbooks, recovery procedures and standard operating processes.
- Configure and optimise monitoring and alerting to improve incident detection and response.
- Drive automation initiatives to reduce manual effort and improve operational efficiency.
- Collaborate with Engineering and DevOps teams to improve platform resilience and release quality.
- Produce availability and operational reporting, identifying opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Support audit, compliance and security activities across the platform estate.
- Participate in an out-of-hours on-call rota and support incident recovery activities.
Requirements
- Experience supporting cloud-hosted SaaS applications in a production environment.
- Strong Microsoft Azure experience, including services such as AKS, App Services, Networking, Storage, Key Vault, Azure Monitor and ACR.
- Experience troubleshooting distributed applications, cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
- Linux and Windows administration experience.
- Experience working with SQL Server and PostgreSQL.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and Helm.
- Scripting and automation experience using PowerShell, Bash or Python.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Bicep.
- Experience configuring monitoring and alerting tools such as Grafana, Elastic or Azure Monitor.
- Strong troubleshooting, debugging and root-cause analysis skills.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with C#/.NET applications.
- Experience with Jenkins, GitHub Actions or other CI/CD tooling.
- Experience with Web Application Firewalls (WAF).
- Experience supporting regulated environments, audits and compliance initiatives.
- Familiarity with Azure OpenAI, RAG or other AI-powered engineering tools.
- Experience using GitHub Copilot or similar AI-assisted development tools.
Skills
- Microsoft Azure
- AKS
- Linux
- Windows
- SQL Server
- PostgreSQL
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- PowerShell
- Bash
- Python
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- Terraform
- Bicep
- Grafana
