Senior Infrastructure Quality Engineer

Dayshape

. Define and implement pragmatic testing approaches and quality gates for infrastructure and platform changes .

Posted 11/4/2026full-timeEdinburgh • United KingdomSenior💰 £47,500 - £57,500 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in quality assurance for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and cloud infrastructure, with a strong focus on risk-based testing and pragmatic quality trade-offs. Capable of mentoring teams and evolving testing strategies to enhance deployment confidence and reliability.

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Infrastructure As Code (IaC)Risk-Based TestingAzure DevOpsCI/CD Pipeline ValidationPerformance Testing

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Hard Skills

Quality AssuranceInfrastructure Testing StrategiesAutomated ValidationRollback MechanismsExploratory Testing

Soft Skills

Strong CommunicationCoaching and MentoringCollaborationProblem-Solving

Tools & Technologies

AzureGitHubMonitoring ToolsObservability Tools

Industry Keywords

Deployment WorkflowsQuality GatesConfiguration DriftService DegradationInternal Developer Platforms

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureCloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define and implement pragmatic testing approaches and quality gates for infrastructure and platform changes
Validate deployment workflows end-to-end, including CI/CD pipeline behaviour
Validate IaC release promotion from sandbox through dev, internal QA, staging, and production
Validate IaC version and software version compatibility
Validate rollback and recovery mechanisms
Coach engineers and SREs on deployability, observability, and resilience
Identify and test failure scenarios and edge cases, including pipeline failures, partial deployments, infrastructure or environment misconfiguration, service degradation, and dependency failures
Perform exploratory testing of infrastructure changes, deployment risks, service and environment integration points, configuration drift, and inconsistencies
Build and improve automated validation for infrastructure and platform behaviour within or alongside pipelines
Identify and communicate risks and trade-offs associated with infrastructure changes to support release decisions
Evolve platform quality practices and define how infrastructure changes are validated as the system scales
Mentor and coach junior QA Engineers and Infrastructure Engineers on QA best practices

Requirements

What you’ll need

Significant experience owning quality assurance for infrastructure and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), with infrastructure quality as a core area of expertise
Strong understanding of risk-based testing and pragmatic quality trade-offs based on risk, impact, and release confidence
Comfortable working in ambiguous or evolving problem spaces and defining an approach where one may not already exist
Proven experience defining and evolving infrastructure testing strategies, introducing appropriate tooling and practices, and building confidence in complex deployment and release processes
Confidence collaborating closely with engineers, challenging assumptions, and influencing technical decisions to improve quality, reliability, and testability
Hands-on experience with Azure and understanding of quality considerations associated with cloud infrastructure
Experience working with Azure DevOps and GitHub, particularly around CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure changes, and deployment workflows
Strong communication skills for identifying and articulating technical and quality risks
Desire to coach and mentor QA Engineers and share technical and quality engineering expertise
Experience with performance or load testing
Experience working closely with SRE or Platform teams
Experience with Internal Developer Platforms
Exposure to monitoring/observability tools
Successful candidate subject to background checks

Benefits

Comp & perks

Starting salary between £47,500 and £57,500 depending on experience
At least £1,000 per year to spend on professional and personal development
33 days' holiday per year (including bank holidays), increasing by 1 day each year to a maximum of 40 days
Paid four-week sabbatical in your fifth anniversary year on top of your holiday entitlement
Enhanced family leave policies
Private healthcare and rewards through AXA
Income protection and death in service cover
Matched 5% auto-enrolment workplace pension scheme
Access to wellbeing offerings, such as our Employee Assistance Programme and a dedicated counselling service
Volunteering time – up to 20 hours a year to participate in volunteer work
Regular All Hands meeting for inspiration and over-communication
Time out of the working week for team socials each month, with a mix of in-person and virtual options
Flexible working hours around 09:00–17:30, Monday to Friday
Hybrid work between home and the Haymarket office, with no mandated office days
Remote consideration for candidates based in the UK
Genuinely nice, smart people to work with