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CreateFuture - Design & Innovation

Senior TechOps Engineer – Contract

CreateFuture - Design & Innovation

. Build and support environments on Azure .

Posted 11/4/2026contractRemote • United KingdomSeniorWebsite

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Demonstrates extensive experience in Azure and RHEL systems administration, with a strong focus on supporting Java microservices and middleware. Proficient in incident management, debugging, and delivering infrastructure as code using Terraform and GitHub Actions.

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Azure AdministrationRHEL Systems AdministrationJava Microservices SupportTerraform and GitHub ActionsIncident Management

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Hard Skills
Azure VMsRHELJavaPython ScriptingBash ScriptingElasticsearchJVM ObservabilityAnsibleDockerITIL Familiarity
Soft Skills
Strong CommunicationAnalytical Skills
Tools & Technologies
TerraformGitHub ActionsJira Service ManagementConfluenceElastic StackPrometheusGrafanaAzure MonitorPagerDutyCloudflare
Industry Keywords
High-Availability Digital SectorGaming24/7 OperationsIncident ResponseRoot-Cause Analysis

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AnsibleAzureCloudDockerElasticSearchGrafanaJavaKafkaMicroservicesMongoDBMySQLNGINXPrometheusPythonRabbitMQRedisSpringSpring BootSpringBootTerraformVaultZookeeper

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Build and support environments on Azure
  • Administer, harden, patch and tune RHEL systems
  • Act as escalation for L2/L3 incidents and drive root-cause analysis and permanent fixes
  • Debug issues across OS, network, middleware, JVM and database using logs, metrics, dumps and packet captures
  • Support Java/Spring Boot microservices and middleware; diagnose JVM memory, garbage collection, thread and latency issues
  • Drive security vulnerability remediation across OS, middleware and cloud platform
  • Collaborate with Security, SOC and NOC on incident response and post-incident reviews
  • Deliver infrastructure as code with Terraform and deployments through GitHub Actions running Ansible
  • Own backup, restore testing and disaster-recovery failover readiness
  • Participate in a regular 24/7 on-call rotation
  • Manage incidents, problems and changes via Jira Service Management
  • Maintain runbooks, dashboards and documentation
  • Take ownership of an inherited Azure estate, stabilise it and modernise it with AI-assisted and reviewed tooling

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 8+ years in TechOps/Infrastructure/SRE/Production Operations
  • Strong hands-on Azure and RHEL experience in production
  • Proven support of Java microservices/middleware in production
  • Strong hands-on debugging and analytical skills
  • Advanced Elasticsearch and JVM observability skills
  • Hands-on Terraform, GitHub Actions and Ansible
  • Python/Bash scripting
  • Strong incident management/RCA capability
  • ITIL familiarity
  • Comfort with 24/7 operations
  • Strong communication
  • Experience in gaming or another regulated, high-availability digital sector
  • Systems administration experience desired
  • Azure VMs, VNet, NSG, Load Balancer, App Gateway/WAF, Firewall, Virtual WAN, Key Vault, private endpoints, VPN
  • Azure Front Door, Cloudflare, Nginx, TLS
  • Azure MySQL Flexible Server, Redis, Blob Storage, Canal, MongoDB
  • RHEL, Azure Update Manager, Docker
  • Spring Boot, Dubbo, Nacos, ZooKeeper, XXL-Job, Kafka, RabbitMQ
  • Elastic Stack, Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana, Azure Monitor, Micrometer/JVM observability, PagerDuty
  • Entra ID, RBAC, PIM, Azure Bastion, JumpServer, Zscaler ZPA
  • Azure Backup and DR region failover
  • Terraform, GitHub Actions, Ansible, GitHub Packages, GitOps
  • Jira Service Management and Confluence

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Flexible working, including hybrid and remote options
  • Supportive and friendly culture
  • Investment in professional and personal growth
  • Occasional travel to client sites or CreateFuture offices when needed
  • Flexible time management focused on impact
  • Adjustments or support during the application process