Senior Infrastructure Quality Engineer

About Us 

We’re Dayshape—an award-winning software scale-up with big ambitions and the momentum to match. 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.   

Our 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. 

Why our customers love Dayshape: 

• We help professional firms optimise margins and increase revenue, unlocking access to more profitable work.   

• We provide complete operational visibility today and the tools to confidently predict tomorrow.   

• We empower firms to become the places where top talent wants to work - and the best clients want to work with.  

At 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. 

 About the Role 

As our platform continues to scale, we are investing heavily in our infrastructure, reliability, and deployment capabilities.

We 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.

This 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.

You 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.

This 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:

• Infrastructure changes, including Infrastructure as Code (IaC), environments, and pipelines
• System behaviour under failure, stress, and degraded conditions
• Deployment orchestration, release safety, and rollback capability

What You Will Do 

• Lead on designing and implementing pragmatic testing approaches and quality gates for infrastructure and platform changes 

• Validate deployment workflows end-to-end, including: 
• CI/CD pipeline behaviour 
• IAC release promotion (sandbox -> dev -> internal QA -> staging -> prod) 

• IAC version and software version compatibility 

• Rollback and recovery mechanisms 

• Coach engineers and SREs around making sure platform changes are: 

• Deployable with confidence (repeatable, reliable releases) 

• Observable (clear signals via logs, metrics, and alerts) 

• Resilient under failure conditions 

• Identify and test failure scenarios and edge cases, such as: 

• Pipeline failures or partial deployments 

• Misconfiguration of infrastructure or environments 

• Service degradation or dependency failures 

• Perform exploratory testing of infrastructure changes, focusing on: 

• Deployment risks 

• Integration points between services and environments 

• Configuration drift and inconsistencies 

• Build and improve automated validation for infrastructure and platform behaviour, including checks within or alongside pipelines where appropriate 

• Clearly identify and communicate risks and trade-offs associated with infrastructure changes, enabling informed release decisions 

• Lead on evolving quality practices for the platform, defining how infrastructure changes are validated as the system scales 

• Mentor and coach junior QA Engineers, and Infra Engineers around best practices for QA 

About you

• Significant experience owning quality assurance for infrastructure and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), with infrastructure quality as a core area of expertise.
• A strong understanding of risk-based testing, with the judgement to make pragmatic quality trade-offs based on risk, impact, and release confidence.
• Comfortable working in ambiguous or evolving problem spaces, 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, with a good understanding of the 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, with the ability to identify and articulate technical and quality risks clearly to support informed decision-making.
• A desire to coach and mentor QA Engineers, sharing expertise and helping others develop their technical and quality engineering capabilities.

Bonus Points 

• Experience with performance or load testing 

• Experience working closely with SRE or Platform teams 

• Experience with Internal Developer Platforms 

• Exposure to monitoring/observability tools 

What You’ll Get 

• 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-comm