Azure Devops Engineer

Location: BGC, Taguig

Shift pattern: Mid-shift – 4pm MNL to 1am MNL

Working Model: Hybrid, 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home.

Working in our dynamic, successful IT team there has never been a better time to join Pepper Money, a specialist mortgage lender backed by a global financial institution offering first and second charge loans.

We really do believe that it's our people who are our main competitive advantage – the 'thing' that sets us apart from our competitors.

Our passion is to 'Help People Succeed'. This is at the heart of everything we do and includes our valued customers, intermediary brokers and partners as well as all of our fantastic colleagues.

We operate a hybrid working model, with a split of days being in the office and days being worked at home. Pepper Money has three offices across the UK and one office in Manila, where this role will be based.

What you will be doing

As an Azure Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for building, automating, and supporting a scalable, cloud-native platform for application delivery. You will focus on container orchestration using AKS, CI/CD integration, observability, and applying SRE principles to ensure performance, security, and developer experience. Your work will enable development teams to deliver with speed and confidence on a robust and well-governed Azure platform.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and support Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters

• Develop and manage Helm charts and Kubernetes manifests

• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions

• Implement SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets

• Deploy observability solutions (monitoring, logging, tracing)

• Improve platform security through policy enforcement, RBAC, and secrets management

• Drive automation and platform reliability through scripting and IaC

• Collaborate with DevOps, security, and development teams to improve platform maturity

What we are looking for

This role requires a strong DevOps and platform engineering mindset, focused on reliability, automation, and scalability. A solid understanding of Azure services is essential, particularly around containerisation, networking, and identity. You will be comfortable owning the platform and enabling others to deliver with speed and safety.

Essential Skills & Experience:

Minimum 2 years working of experience with:

• Strong technical expertise in Azure (App services, Container Apps, AKS, VMs, VNets, NSGs, Load Balancers, Application Gateway, Front Door, Firewall, DNS, Private Link).
• Building Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
• Designing CI/CD pipelines for repeatable, automated deployments
• Driving operational excellence with monitoring, logging, and observability tools
• Proficiency in automation and scripting (PowerShell, Azure CLI, Terraform)

Qualifications:

• Degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field.

Some of the benefits we provide are:

• Competitive salaries and bonus schemes

• Hybrid home/office working arrangements

• Regular training and opportunities to learn and grow

• Holiday leave plus bank holidays

• Medical insurance cover

• Life insurance

• Health and wellbeing support

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In return for your commitment, you'll have the chance to develop your career in a dynamic environment, working alongside top talent and an exceptional leadership team. If you want to be involved in our exciting expansion plans and have the chance to really shape and influence the way the business grows, then we'd love to hear from you.

We also want our people to feel a sense of belonging at Pepper Money. We are committed to meeting our Diversity, Equality and Inclusion charter, further information can be found on the Careers section on our website.