About this role
Faktion is looking for a DevOps Engineer to help deploy, scale and maintain our projects, apps and platforms. As an Azure DevOps/Cloud Engineer, you build scalable and future-proof platforms by combining infrastructure, security and automation. Some key responsibilities: Set up and automate CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps for builds, tests and deployments Manage scalable and secure cloud infrastructure on Azure (and in the future AWS) with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Bicep) Containerise and roll out ML services and Node services via Docker and Kubernetes Monitor and resolve performance and connectivity issues Think about infrastructure architecture, networks, continuity and disaster recovery Design and enforce cloud security controls: network segmentation, private endpoints, WAF, RBAC/least privilege, and secret management with automated rotation Build and maintain observability: centralised logging, metrics, tracing (OpenTelemetry), dashboards, SLIs/SLOs, and actionable alerting Cost monitoring and optimisation of resources Make clean documentation/architecture diagrams Proven experience managing Node.js services in production, with skills in containerization, Docker image optimisation, and diagnosing performance and memory bottlenecks. Networking fundamentals: DNS, TLS, load balancing, firewalls, and private networking patterns Disaster recovery: backup strategies, restore drills, recovery