Senior DevOps Engineer Romford
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As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you'll take ownership of the design, build, and operation of our infrastructure across both on-premise environments and Microsoft Azure. You'll play a key role in ensuring our platforms are secure, resilient, scalable, and easy for engineering teams to work with. This role suits someone with deep hands-on experience who enjoys operating close to the systems that keep the business running. You'll work closely with software engineers, security teams, and technical leadership to support high-traffic, customer-facing platforms used by customers with specialist medical needs. You'll have a direct impact on how we build, deploy, monitor, and secure our systems. From CI/CD pipelines and Linux servers to networking, cloud architecture, and cyber security, your work will shape the reliability and safety of our customer journey and internal systems. We're looking for a senior individual with strong technical judgement, a security-first mindset, and the confidence to lead by example., * Design, build, and maintain infrastructure and security across on-premise environments and Microsoft Azure Cloud.
- Take ownership of Linux-based systems, ensuring they are secure, stable, and well maintained.
- Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines to support reliable and repeatable software delivery.
- Work closely with software engineering teams to enable efficient development, testing, and deployment workflows.
- Design and manage networking components, including firewalls, load balancers, DNS, routing, and connectivity between on-prem and cloud.
- Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting to ensure platform reliability and fast incident response.
- Lead on infrastructure security, vulnerability management, patching, and hardening of systems.
- Support incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement following outages or security events.
- Contribute to architectural decisions around scalability, resilience, and disaster recovery.
- Maintain clear technical documentation to support operations, onboarding, and audit requirements.
- Act as a technical mentor, sharing best practices and raising DevOps and security maturity across teams.
Requirements
Do you have experience in VPN?, * Strong commercial experience working as a DevOps or Infrastructure Engineer in a Linux-heavy environment.
- Deep knowledge of Linux systems administration, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
- Hands-on experience designing and operating infrastructure in Microsoft Azure.
- Strong understanding of networking concepts, including TCP/IP, routing, firewalls, VPNs, and load balancin
- Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using modern tooling.
- Solid understanding of security principles, including system hardening, identity and access management, and secure networking.
- Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management.
- Strong experience with Terraform and Bicep, as well as other Infrastructure as Code tools and practices.
- Experience with observability tools such as Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus, or similar.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to remain calm and effective during incidents.
- Clear communication skills and a collaborative, pragmatic approach.
Desirable Skills:
- Experience operating hybrid environments spanning on-premise and cloud infrastructure.
- Knowledge of containerisation technologies such as Docker and container orchestration platforms.
- Experience with version control systems such as Git.
- Familiarity with compliance, audit, and regulatory requirements in security-sensitive environments.
- Experience working closely with security teams on threat modelling and cyber risk reduction.
- Understanding of application architecture and how infrastructure choices affect performance and reliability.
Key Competencies
- At least 5 years commercial experience in a senior DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure-focused role
- Proven experience owning and operating business-critical systems.
- Comfortable working independently and taking responsibility for complex, distributed environments.
- Strong commercial mindset, with an understanding of how availability, security, and performance impact customer trust and revenue.
- Passionate about improving reliability, security, and developer experience through automation and good design.
Benefits & conditions
- Comprehensive Cover: Work with a wide range of travel insurance products, including single-trip, multi-trip, and specialised policies such as winter sports and backpacking insurance.
- Generous Holiday Allowance: Starting 24 days of annual leave.
- Comprehensive Benefits Package: Includes a company-paid health cash plan, company pension, holiday buy scheme, travel insurance discounts, and more.
- Professional Growth: Access to extensive training on AllClear and InsureandGo products and sales techniques, with opportunities for career advancement.
- Supportive Environment: Join a team that values collaboration, innovation, and customer satisfaction.
- Convenient Location: Based in Romford or Cardiff with easy access to local amenities and transport links.