Beghou Consulting is looking for a hands-on Site Reliability / DevOps Engineer. The purpose of this role is to design, build, automate, and operate secure, scalable, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure and data platforms across Azure and AWS. The role is responsible for enabling reliable data and application delivery by implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD automation, and cloud best practices, while ensuring operational excellence, security, and disaster recovery readiness.

This position partners closely with data engineering, application development, and client teams to translate platform requirements into robust infrastructure solutions. By standardizing environments, improving deployment processes, and automating operational workflows, the role accelerates development velocity, reduces risk, and supports the organisations data-driven initiatives and cloud modernisation strategy.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities :

Infrastructure as Code :

- Develop, maintain, and review Terraform modules to provision and manage cloud resources.

- Apply best practices for Terraform state management, module design, and testing.

- Leverage CDKTF (Terraform) or Terragrunt patterns where appropriate.

Cloud Platform & Data Platform Management :

- Architect and operate services in Azure and AWS (compute, storage, networking, databases).

- Provision, configure, and manage Databricks workspaces, clusters and jobs to support data pipelines.

- Implement tagging, cost-optimization, and security controls across both clouds and Databricks environments.

CI/CD for Infrastructure :

- Build, test, and maintain Azure DevOps Pipelines or GitHub Actions to automate infrastructure provisioning and application deployment.

- Manage source in Azure DevOps or GitHub repos, enforce branching strategies, pull-request workflows and policy-as-code checks.

Collaboration & Documentation :

- Partner with client and data engineering teams to integrate infrastructure changes safely into development workflows.

- Produce clear architecture diagrams, runbooks, and how-to guides for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Programming & Automation :

- Write and maintain automation scripts and CLI tools in Python to streamline operational tasks.

- Contribute to internal SDKs or libraries for shared tooling and infrastructure utilities.

Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Education) :

- Experience : 3+ years in a DevOps or SRE role with production workloads in Azure and AWS.

- IaC Proficiency : Deep hands-on Terraform experience, including Terraform Cloud, Terragrunt, module design, and testing.

- CI/CD Expertise : Proven ability building and maintaining Azure DevOps Pipelines and managing code in either Azure DevOps or GitHub repos.

- Programming Skills : Strong Python scripting skills; able to write clean, testable, and reusable code.

- Data Platform Understanding : Familiarity with provisioning and managing Databricks workspaces, clusters, and jobs.

- Disaster Recovery : Experience designing DR plans, automated backups, and conducting restore drills.

- Cloud Services : Solid understanding of core Azure and AWS services (VMs, networking, storage, IAM, RDS/SQL).

- Problem-Solving : Excellent troubleshooting abilities and a calm, methodical approach to incident response.

- Communication : Clear written and verbal communication; adept at documenting complex systems simply.

Preferred Qualifications :

- Advanced IaC Tools : Experience with CDK for Terraform (CDKTF) or Terragrunt for composing infrastructure patterns.

- Languages : PowerShell, Bicep, Python, Terraform

- Security & Compliance : Familiarity with cloud security best practices (CIS benchmarks, Azure Policy, AWS IAM policies).

- Networking : In-depth knowledge of VPCs, VNets, load balancers, VPNs and cross-region connectivity.

- Serverless & Containers : Experience with serverless platforms (Azure Functions, AWS Lambda) and container registries.