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Trusted by Big Four and many other top professional services firms globally, our AI-powered resource management platform is helping organisations to achieve extraordinary results.\nOur platform stands apart as the only solution that combines advanced AI, real-time project financials, and firm-wide insights to elevate resource management to a strategic function. By driving profitable growth, powering confident decisions, and ensuring satisfied clients and teams-we're helping our customers build strong organisations and careers for the long term.\nWhy our customers love Dayshape:\nWe help professional firms optimise margins and increase revenue, unlocking access to more profitable work. \nWe provide complete operational visibility today and the tools to confidently predict tomorrow. \nWe empower firms to become the places where top talent wants to work - and the best clients want to work with. \nAt Dayshape, our purpose is to improve people's working lives, and our culture is an important driving force in helping us to do just that. We're a friendly, inclusive, and ambitious team-driven by our values and a shared commitment to success. If you’re ready to join a fast-growing, high-impact company that’s reimagining resource management, then let’s talk.\nAbout the Role\nAs our platform continues to scale, we are investing heavily in our infrastructure, reliability, and deployment capabilities.\nWe are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Quality Engineer to work within our Infrastructure Platform team, ensuring that our systems are reliable, scalable, observable, and safe to release. This is an exciting new role for us at Dayshape and an opportunity to help shape how we approach infrastructure quality as we continue to scale.\nThis role will focus on defining and putting in place our approach and strategy for testing infrastructure, infrastructure deployments, and the non-functional aspects of our platform. You will take ownership of building confidence in how our infrastructure and systems behave under real-world conditions, including failure, load, change, and recovery.\nYou will play a leading role in establishing and embedding quality practices across infrastructure engineering, working closely with engineers to improve testability, observability, resilience, and release confidence. As a senior member of the team, you will be expected to bring strong technical judgement, challenge existing approaches where appropriate, and help set the standard for infrastructure quality.\nThis role does not own production boundaries in the way an SRE role would, and it is not an on-call or incident management/coordination position. It is also distinct from a traditional product QA role. Your focus will primarily be on:\nInfrastructure changes, including Infrastructure as Code (IaC), environments, and pipelines\nSystem behaviour under failure, stress, and degraded conditions\nDeployment orchestration, release safety, and rollback capability\nWhat You Will Do\nLead on designing and implementing pragmatic testing approaches and quality gates for infrastructure and platform changes \nValidate deployment workflows end-to-end, including: \nCI/CD pipeline behaviour \nIAC release promotion (sandbox -> dev -> internal QA -> staging -> prod) \nIAC version and software version compatibility \nRollback and recovery mechanisms \nCoach engineers and SREs around making sure platform changes are: \nDeployable with confidence (repeatable, reliable releases) \nObservable (clear signals via logs, metrics, and alerts) \nResilient under failure conditions \nIdentify and test failure scenarios and edge cases, such as: \nPipeline failures or partial deployments \nMisconfiguration of infrastructure or environments \nService degradation or dependency failures \nPerform exploratory testing of infrastructure changes, focusing on: \nDeployment risks \nIntegration points between services and environments \nConfiguration drift and inconsistencies \nBuild and improve automated validation for infrastructure and platform behaviour, including checks within or alongside pipelines where appropriate \nClearly identify and communicate risks and trade-offs associated with infrastructure changes, enabling informed release decisions \nLead on evolving quality practices for the platform, defining how infrastructure changes are validated as the system scales \nMentor and coach junior QA Engineers, and Infra Engineers around best practices for QA \nAbout you\nSignificant experience owning quality assurance for infrastructure and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), with infrastructure quality as a core area of expertise.\nA strong understanding of risk-based testing, with the judgement to make pragmatic quality trade-offs based on risk, impact, and release confidence.\nComfortable working in ambiguous or evolving problem spaces, defining an approach where one may not already exist.\nProven experience defining and evolving infrastructure testing strategies, introducing appropriate tooling and practices, and building confidence in complex deployment and release processes.\nConfidence collaborating closely with engineers, challenging assumptions and influencing technical decisions to improve quality, reliability, and testability.\nHands-on experience with Azure, with a good understanding of the quality considerations associated with cloud infrastructure.\nExperience working with Azure DevOps and GitHub, particularly around CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure changes, and deployment workflows.\nStrong communication skills, with the ability to identify and articulate technical and quality risks clearly to support informed decision-making.\nA desire to coach and mentor QA Engineers, sharing expertise and helping others develop their technical and quality engineering capabilities.\nBonus Points\nExperience with performance or load testing \nExperience working closely with SRE or Platform teams \nExperience with Internal Developer Platforms \nExposure to monitoring/observability tools \nWhat You’ll Get\nStarting salary between £47,500 and £57,500 depending on experience \nAt least £1,000 per year to spend on professional and personal development \n33 days' holiday per year (including bank holidays), increasing by 1 day each year to a maximum of 40 days \nPaid four-week sabbatical in your fifth anniversary year on top of your holiday entitlement \nEnhanced family leave policies \nPrivate healthcare and rewards through AXA \nIncome protection and death in service cover \nMatched 5% auto-enrolment workplace pension scheme \nAccess to wellbeing offerings, such as our Employee Assistance Programme and a dedicated counselling service \nVolunteering time - up to 20 hours a year to participate in volunteer work \nRegular All Hands meeting for inspiration and over-communication \nTime out of the working week for team socials each month, with a mix of in-person and virtual options: past events include hiking, family BBQs, board games and at-home cocktail classes! \nGenuinely nice, smart people to work with, who are excited about growing our company \nWorking Details\nThis is a full-time role (37.5 hours per week). We typically work from 09:00 - 17:30 from Monday to Friday, though we can be flexible around this, just let us know.\nWe’re ideally looking for someone in/around Edinburgh, able to work on a hybrid basis between home and our Haymarket office. We don't mandate required office days, but we find that most of the team enjoy working from the office 2-3 days a week to connect with their team and other Dayshapers and to make use of space, and for meetings and collaboration. We are open to considering remote for the right candidate, as long as you are based in the UK.\nJoin the team!\nEquality of opportunity is more than just a responsibility: we believe it’s a huge advantage to welcome a variety of experiences and perspectives into the team. Diversity is a great asset and, as such, we strongly encourage applications from any background.\nThis is your opportunity to really influence how we get things done, and how our product develops to meet our customer’s needs. 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Everyone here is growing personally as the company grows, so if that sounds like something you’d like to be part of, we’d love to see your application.\n*Please note the successful candidate for this role will be subject to background checks and will have an opportunity to declare anything to us beforehand*","description_format":"text","description_chars":8763,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Project & Work Management Software","Human Resources"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-03T19:02:25Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"GB","licensed_sponsor":true,"adverts_offering_sponsorship_24m":0,"sanctioned_now":false,"evidence":"Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker)","filings_12m":null,"filings_prev_12m":null,"green_card_filings_12m":null,"median_offered_wage_usd":null,"route":"Skilled Worker","cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-11-09T07:32:21+00:00","sources":["UK Home Office: register of licensed sponsors (workers)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":5,"expected_fill_days":24,"reasons":["conf:0","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-09T06:03:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":77144,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/dayshape-senior-infrastructure-quality-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/dayshape-senior-infrastructure-quality-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-09T09:08:17Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":8304,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-10T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":11227},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=11227"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fdayshape-senior-infrastructure-quality-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fdayshape-senior-infrastructure-quality-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fdayshape-senior-infrastructure-quality-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/dayshape-senior-infrastructure-quality-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fdayshape-senior-infrastructure-quality-engineer"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3699472}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"dayshape.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3699472},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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