- Professional
- Office in Belfast
Who are we?
At Bright, we're creating cutting-edge software for accounting, payroll, tax, and practice management. We've assembled a team of top talent leading the industry with our superior software solutions and unparalleled customer support. We're brilliant people creating brilliant software! Join us in our mission to create brilliant software that empowers businesses to reach new heights.
The Opportunity
As a DevOps Engineer at Bright, you'll be enabling our engineering teams to build, deploy, and operate production systems at scale. You'll support the infrastructure and deployment pipelines for our API platform and product development teams, ensuring they can ship fast, safely, and reliably to tens of thousands of customers across the UK and Ireland.
Working across our Azure-based Kubernetes infrastructure, you'll build and maintain the CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and observability systems that enable small, autonomous squads to deploy with confidence. You'll be instrumental in creating the foundations that allow our teams to move at startup pace while maintaining production reliability and security.
Key Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Infrastructure & Platform
- Build and maintain Kubernetes infrastructure on Azure (AKS) for production workloads
- Implement infrastructure as code using Terraform for consistent, repeatable deployments
- Design and optimize cloud architecture for performance, cost, and reliability
- Manage container orchestration, networking, and storage solutions
- Ensure high availability and disaster recovery capabilities
CI/CD & Deployment
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using ArgoCD and GitOps workflows
- Enable fast, safe deployments for multiple engineering teams
- Implement automated testing, security scanning, and quality gates
- Create deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling updates)
- Support teams with deployment tooling and best practices
Observability & Reliability
- Implement comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting systems
- Build dashboards and metrics for system health and performance
- Design and implement incident response procedures
- Conduct post-mortems and drive continuous improvement
- Optimize system performance and resource utilization
Security & Compliance
- Implement security best practices across infrastructure and deployments
- Manage secrets, credentials, and access control
- Ensure compliance with data protection requirements for financial data
- Conduct security scanning and vulnerability management
- Support audit and compliance requirements
Collaboration & Enablement
- Work closely with engineering teams to understand deployment needs
- Provide guidance on containerization and cloud-native practices
- Document infrastructure, runbooks, and troubleshooting guides
- Participate in on-call rotation for production systems
- Mentor team members on DevOps practices and tooling
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Essential Skills and Experience
- DevOps/infrastructure experience in production environments
- Strong Kubernetes knowledge including deployment, scaling, networking, and troubleshooting
- Experience with infrastructure as code and cloud resource management
- Azure cloud experience including AKS, networking, storage, and security services
- CI/CD pipeline experience with GitOps tools (ArgoCD preferred) or similar platforms
- Scripting and automation using Bash, Python, or similar languages
- Monitoring and observability tools experience (Prometheus, Grafana, or similar)
- Problem-solving skills - ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems
Desirable Skills and Experience
- Experience with GitHub Actions for CI/CD
- Understanding of networking and load balancing in cloud environments
- Security tooling experience - vulnerability scanning, SAST/DAST, compliance automation
- Experience with cost optimization and FinOps practices in cloud environments
- Knowledge of database administration – MS SQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, or similar
- Understanding of AI/ML infrastructure requirements
- Experience in B2B SaaS
- Disaster recovery and business continuity planning experience
- Experience with log aggregation tools like ELK stack or similar
What Makes You a Great Fit
- Learning Mindset: You're excited to learn new tools and practices, staying current with modern DevOps approaches and emerging technologies.
- Systems Thinking: You understand how distributed systems work and can reason about failure modes, bottlenecks, and reliability patterns.
- Pragmatic Approach: You balance perfect solutions with shipping value quickly. You know when to automate and when to move fast manually.
- Collaboration: You work well with engineering teams, understanding their needs and enabling their productivity without slowing them down.
- Ownership: You take responsibility for the reliability and performance of systems you build. You follow through on incidents and improvements.
- Proactive Mindset: You spot opportunities for automation and improvement. You bring energy, optimism, and a can-do attitude to infrastructure challenges.
- Security Conscious: You treat security and compliance as first-class concerns in everything you build and deploy.
- Automation First: You believe in automating repetitive tasks and building self-service capabilities for teams.
Benefits
What will you get?
- Competitive salary
- Performance based bonus
- 25 days annual leave
- Health Insurance
- Company pension
- Company events
- free food onsite
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Wellness programmes
