Senior DevOps Engineer (AKS / Kubernetes) at Hedgehog Lab, Remote, 3 Months initial, £Contract Rate (Outside IR35)

Senior DevOps Engineer (AKS / Kubernetes)

Contract, 3 months (initial) Remote (UK hours), Outside IR35

We're hiring a senior DevOps engineer to join a small, sharp engineering team building serious infrastructure in the payments space.

You'd work as an embedded part of that team, not a standalone consultant handing work back over the fence.

There's an existing proof-of-concept Azure cluster in place. Your first job is to validate it, then harden and complete it, and take ownership of the platform going forward.

What you'll be doing:

• Completing and maintaining an Azure (AKS) cluster and its GitOps pipeline.

• Hardening security through Azure Managed Identity and proper secrets handling.

• Owning the MSAL gateway and Databricks authentication flow.

• Validating the current POC, recommending improvements, and implementing them.

• Writing the documentation that supports handover and ongoing maintenance.

What we need from you:

• Strong hands-on AKS and Kubernetes experience at senior level.

• Solid Azure identity work (Managed Identity, MSAL, secrets).

• GitOps experience.

• Comfort picking up someone else's build, assessing it honestly, and improving it.

• Someone who slots into a team, their repos, their equipment, their ways of working, and gets on with people.