Can you turn cloud infrastructure into a fast, reliable, automated delivery engine?

Do you live and breathe DevOps, CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code?

Is the sound of working in a fast-paced, remote-first environment exciting?

The Dauntless engineering crew is growing. We’re looking for a talented and motivated mid-level DevOps Engineer with deep Microsoft Azure experience to join our ranks and help deliver a groundbreaking programme for our client..

This is a unique opportunity to bring your build, automation and reliability expertise to a cloud-hosted dispatch and field-service platform, working alongside our Oracle Cloud specialist and the client’s technical stakeholders.

In this role you will own the pipelines and cloud infrastructure the application teams depend on, creating the kind of frequent, dependable delivery that transforms the way our clients do business.

Who We Are

Dauntless is a full-service digital agency specialising in digital strategy, design and development. We work with global brands across various industries, delivering everything from small prototypes to large-scale digital products and software.

Our Crew is:

• globally distributed
• cross-vertical
• industry-agnostic
• multi-disciplined
• digital problem solvers

Our purpose is to help growth-focused companies and industry leaders achieve their goals quickly and efficiently.

Combining our strategic approach, relentless creativity and technical expertise, we drive digital transformation and innovation programmes worldwide.

If you are passionate, collaborative, hard-working, and eager to grow with us, let's talk.

The Opportunity

We are looking for an experienced mid-level Azure DevOps Engineer who is confident across the modern Azure toolchain; Azure DevOps, infrastructure-as-code, containers and platform security, to join us on a new programme of work (Dispatch Portal and iOS Operator App delivery.

More than skills, we’re interested in you as a person and how you will bring the best to both the projects you work on and those around you. We love pioneering and making waves, and we have fun while we’re doing all of the above.

You should also have a positive, constructive attitude towards clients and appreciate the complexities of managing expectations, both externally and within a distributed delivery team.

What Makes You Right For This Role?

• You have a strong understanding and experience of modern DevOps practice - CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, source control and release management.
• You have excellent communication and problem-solving skills, and are comfortable working across time zones with our US Integration Lead and the client's US-based team.
• Driven by a customer-obsessed approach, with a passion for automating away friction and improving reliability.
• You thrive in a fast and challenging environment without compromising quality or security.
• Desire to work as part of a remote, cross-functional and highly collaborative team, not ‘just infrastructure’.
• Curious mindset and willing to test and learn, to be wrong and to try new things.
• Enjoy pushing technical boundaries and raising the engineering bar.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps (Pipelines, Repos, Artifacts) to enable frequent, reliable releases.
• Provision and manage cloud infrastructure as code using Terraform, Bicep or ARM templates.
• Deploy and operate containerised workloads on Azure Container Apps (revision-based deployments, traffic splitting, KEDA autoscaling), including image management via Azure Container Registry..
• Configure Azure networking, identity (Entra ID / RBAC), Key Vault and private endpoints, and platform security controls to meet client compliance requirements, to designs agreed with the US Integration Lead
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting and distributed tracing using Azure Monitor, Application Insights and OpenTelemetry; support incident response and root-cause analysisis.
• Automate operational tasks and environment management with PowerShell, Bash and/or Python.
• Support the integration fabric (some combination of API Management, Service Bus and/or Event Grid) and help operate the data tier (Azure SQL Managed Instance, Cosmos DB, Redis Cache, ADLS Gen2), to designs agreed with the US Integration Lead.
• Support private connectivity to the client’s Oracle estate (ExpressRoute <-> Oracle FastConnect) and day-to-day operation of that link, to designs agreed with the US Integration Lead.
• Apply FinOps discipline on Azure spend the client bears directly, including resource tagging, budgets, right-sizing and cost reporting.
• Participate in scheduled DR drills and support multi-region resilience operations (e.g. SQL Managed Instance failover groups, Service Bus geo-DR), to designs agreed with the US Integration Lead.
• Collaborate with developers on build/release strategy, branching and environment promotion; contribute to code reviews of infrastructure changes.
• Document infrastructure, runbooks and operational standards, and contribute to the architecture documentation owned by the US Integration Lead; support knowledge transfer to client teams where the engagement requires. As the programme matures, there’s a clear path to take on greater architectural ownership within the platform.

The Ideal Candidate Will Bring

Essential skills and experience

• 3–5 years in a DevOps, platform or cloud engineering role, with hands-on Microsoft Azure delivery.
• Demonstrable experience with Azure DevOps pipelines (YAML-based CI/CD).
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform(preferred) and/or Bicep.
• Containerisation (Docker) and hands-on experience running containers on at least one modern hosting platform (e.g. Azure Container Apps, App Service, or AKS/Kubernetes)
• Strong scripting in at least one of PowerShell, Bash or Python.
• Solid grasp of Git workflows, source control and release management.
• Working knowledge of cloud networking, identity and security fundamentals.
• Practical experience with at least one Azure integration/messaging service (e.g. API Management, Service Bus, or Event Grid).
• Clear written and verbal communication; able to work across time zones with our US Integration Lead and the client's US-based team.

Desirable

• Azure certification - AZ-400 (Designing and Implementing DevOps Solutions) and/or AZ-104 (Azure Administrator).
• Exposure to multi-cloud/hybrid connectivity patterns (e.g. ExpressRoute, or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure/FastConnect)
• Experience in field-service, logistics, dispatch or IoT-adjacent platforms.
• Familiarity with observability tooling (Grafana, Prometheus) and cost-optimisation practices.
• Exposure to applied-AI services such as Azure OpenAI or Azure AI Search, including awareness of cost and quota management.
• Experience operating multi-region or active/DR architectures (e.g. database failover groups, geo-replicated messaging).
• Experience with an iOS build/signing/TestFlight release pipeline (see note on this in the comments - scope to be confirmed).

Reporting Line & Collaboration

This role reports to our US Integration Lead. You will coordinate daily with the Oracle Cloud specialist engineer, application developers and, where the engagement requires, the client’s technical contacts on the US East Coast and the CDO (Florida). You’ll build and operate the platform to designs agreed with the US Integration Lead, with a clear path to take on greater architectural responsibility as the programme matures.

Our Values

To deliver exceptional products for exceptional clients, the Dauntless crew are:

• Fearless - we dive in, even into uncharted territory, and our experience enables us to navigate into the unknown.
• Curious - we learn our way past problems, adapting and improving when faced with challenges.
• Never settle - we work to the wonder, to the very best possible. We relentlessly pursue excellence in everything we do.
• Always grateful - we get to do this. We show up ready and feel privileged to help people succeed.
• One Crew - we are greater than the sum of our parts. We have fun, work better and accomplish so much more together.

What’s In It For You?

• An opportunity to help the Engineering crew and build a range of exciting products for high profile clients.
• A role with a real purpose that you can be proud of.
• A highly flexible work environment - we are 100% remote.
• A hardworking, open, positive and fun work environment.
• A competitive day rate.

We aim to provide an environment for passionate people from different backgrounds to thrive, while bringing a wide range of skills and experiences to everything we do.

Dauntless is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We value diversity — in backgrounds and experiences. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability and gender identity.

Pay: $97,524.23 - $136,000.00 per year

Work Location: Remote