Azure DevOps Engineer

About Albany Beck Albany Beck is a specialist Financial Services Consultancy helping institutions deliver complex change and transformation while building the internal capability to sustain it. We combine subject matter expertise with innovative delivery models that help clients scale efficiently, while offering meaningful, long-term career opportunities to our people. At Albany Beck, you’ll be choosing to work with an organisation that’s passionate about your learning journey and committed to your professional and personal development. Role Overview We are seeking an experienced Azure DevOps Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in designing, provisioning, and managing multi-region Microsoft Azure environments. The successful candidate will be responsible for building and maintaining highly available, resilient cloud platforms, with a particular focus on disaster recovery, cross-region synchronisation, AKS, and Azure API Management (APIM). You will be expected to work hands-on across the Azure estate, from designing solutions through to provisioning and configuring infrastructure from the ground up. Key Responsibilities Design, implement, and manage multi-region Azure cloud environments to provide high availability, resilience, and disaster recovery capabilities.Develop and maintain solutions that ensure appropriate synchronisation and consistency between Azure regions, enabling services to fail over effectively when a primary region becomes unavailable.Design and implement disaster recovery and business continuity strategies across Azure regions.Provision, configure, and manage Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters from the ground up, including networking, security, scaling, monitoring, and operational configuration.Provision and configure Azure API Management (APIM) environments from the ground up, including policies, networking, security, integrations, and regional deployments.Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using technologies such as Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates.Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate infrastructure and application deployments across multiple Azure regions.Implement Azure networking, identity, security, monitoring, and governance capabilities required to support highly available environments.Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, deployment, and operational processes wherever possible.Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, deployment, networking, and availability issues across distributed Azure environments.Work closely with development, architecture, security, and operations teams to ensure Azure platforms meet availability, resilience, performance, and security requirements.Contribute to the ongoing improvement of cloud engineering standards, automation, deployment processes, and disaster recovery capabilities.Participate in disaster recovery testing and validate that workloads can be successfully recovered or failed over to an alternative Azure region. Essential Experience Strong hands-on experience as an Azure DevOps / Cloud Engineer.Proven experience designing and managing multi-region Azure environments.Strong understanding and practical experience of Azure disaster recovery and high-availability architectures.Demonstrable experience implementing cross-region synchronisation and replication to support regional failover scenarios.Strong hands-on experience provisioning and configuring AKS clusters from the ground up.Strong hands-on experience provisioning and configuring Azure API Management (APIM) from the ground up.Experience with Azure networking, including VNets, subnets, private endpoints, DNS, load balancing, and connectivity between regions.Strong Infrastructure as Code experience, ideally with Terraform and/or Bicep.Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines, preferably using Azure DevOps.Strong understanding of Azure security, identity, access management, and secrets management.Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational management of Azure environments.Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills across cloud infrastructure and distributed systems. Desirable Experience Azure certifications such as AZ-104, AZ-305, or AZ-400.Experience with Azure Front Door, Traffic Manager, Application Gateway, and Azure Load Balancer.Experience with Azure Site Recovery and other Azure-native disaster recovery technologies.Experience implementing geo-redundancy and replication for Azure databases, storage, and other platform services.Experience with Kubernetes administration and troubleshooting.Experience with Helm and Kubernetes deployment tooling.Experience implementing security and governance using Azure Policy, Defender for Cloud, and Microsoft Entra ID.Experience with Git, GitHub, Azure Repos, or similar source-control platforms. Technical Skills Cloud: Microsoft AzureContainers: AKS, Kubernetes, DockerAPI Management: Azure API Management (APIM)Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Bicep, ARMCI/CD: Azure DevOps PipelinesNetworking: VNets, Private Endpoints, DNS, Load Balancers, Application Gateway, Azure Front DoorSecurity: Microsoft Entra ID, Managed Identities, Key Vault, Azure RBACMonitoring: Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application InsightsSource Control: Git, Azure Repos / GitHub