DevOps Engineer — Azure CI/CD & AKS

**DevOps Engineer, Azure CI/CD and AKS | Nicosia, Cyprus | €65,000 to €70,000 | 2 openings** Two permanent DevOps roles in Nicosia on a major banking transformation programme, working with LTM's Digital Innovation Hub at CYENS Centre of Excellence. This is application-side DevOps. You will own pipeline performance and Kubernetes deployment for application workloads, not infrastructure provisioning. **What you will do** - Design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps for build and release automation - Manage application deployments on Azure Kubernetes Service, including deployment strategies and release optimisation - Implement and run monitoring and observability using Datadog - Drive DevOps improvements and cost optimisation across pipeline efficiency, AKS resource usage and application runtime tuning - Build automation and tooling in Shell and Python **What you need** - Hands-on Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline design and management - Hands-on Azure Kubernetes Service - Azure Cloud experience - Demonstrable optimisation work you delivered personally: pipeline speed, AKS scaling, cost reduction or monitoring improvements - Hands-on Datadog: metrics, dashboards, alerting - Strong Shell and Python scripting - EU citizenship or a valid Cyprus work permit **Useful to have** Terraform, Helm, Ansible, GitHub Actions. CKA or Azure Administrator certification. **Please note** This role is application-side pipeline and deployment engineering. Applications that show cluster or VM setup only, without pipeline and AKS deployment work, will not progress. Be ready to describe a specific optimisation you delivered and its measurable impact.