DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer1 month ago
Manchester, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, deploy, and support secure, scalable, and resilient AI and cloud-based solutions on Azure.
- Engineer and maintain AI application infrastructure using Azure Kubernetes Service, containers, and cloud-native services.
- Develop and manage Terraform infrastructure as code for secure and reliable environments.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps and YAML workflows.
- Implement automated testing, monitoring, alerting, and observability for platform reliability and performance.
- Automate operational processes, configuration management, and environment provisioning.
- Transition new AI solutions into production with product, data, and engineering teams.
- Monitor platform health, troubleshoot incidents, resolve root causes, and drive continuous improvement.
- Operate production LLM workloads, including routing, capacity and quota management, rate limiting, streaming, retries, backpressure, cost attribution, and AI-specific tracing.
- Operate Azure security patterns, PostgreSQL, Redis, Azure Service Bus, Azure storage services, and Kubernetes-hosted web and event-driven workloads.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience designing and implementing cloud-native solutions, preferably on Microsoft Azure.
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Azure Kubernetes Service, Docker, and containerized application deployment.
- Expertise with Terraform and related infrastructure automation frameworks.
- Experience building and maintaining Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines and YAML-based workflows.
- Strong Python and shell scripting skills using PowerShell or Bash; C# or Go is a plus.
- Experience deploying and supporting AI, machine learning, API, and cloud application workloads in production.
- Experience operating LLM-based workloads in production and managing AI-specific reliability, capacity, cost, and observability concerns.
- Strong understanding of Linux administration, networking, security, and cloud architecture principles.
- Experience with Azure private networking, private endpoints, Entra ID, managed identities, RBAC, and Key Vault.
- Experience operating PostgreSQL, Redis, Azure Service Bus, and Azure storage services in production.
- Proficiency with Git, automated testing frameworks, and modern software engineering practices.
- Experience hosting and operating Django or comparable ASGI web applications, background workers, event-driven services, and server-sent event or similar streaming workloads on Kubernetes.
- Strong troubleshooting, communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills, including experience in Agile engineering environments.
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About Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is a global law firm advising corporations, financial institutions, and governments on complex transactions, disputes, and regulatory matters across jurisdictions. Structured as a partnership headquartered in London and founded in 1743, it operates offices across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the United States. Its fee-based practice spans M&A, antitrust, arbitration and litigation, finance and capital markets, and compliance and investigations.