Active SC - Azure DevOps Engineer - Remote - 12 Months

Stealth It
Manchester, United Kingdom
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Temporary contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English

Job location

Remote
Manchester, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence
Application Performance Management
Azure
Continuous Integration
Log Analysis
Modular Design
Platform as a Service (PAAS)
Redis
Management of Software Versions
Data Logging
Cloud Monitoring
Firewalls (Computer Science)
Bicep
Cosmos DB
Vulnerability Analysis

Job description

CI/CD Strategy & Automation

  • Define end-to-end CI/CD strategy, including branching models, environment promotion, and approval gates.
  • Establish reusable pipeline templates for build, deploy, security scanning, policy compliance, SBOM generation, and model evaluation hooks.
  • Implement automated environment promotion workflows with integrated gates for tests, security, cost, and compliance checks.

Infrastructure as Code & Security

  • Design and implement Bicep module structure, adopting Azure Verified Modules and defining versioning strategy.
  • Integrate secret management solutions (Managed Identity, Key Vault references) across pipelines.
  • Enable automated policy compliance and drift detection reporting (eg, what-if analysis, policy evaluation on PR).

Observability & Operational Enablement

  • Oversee platform observability bootstrap, including Log Analytics workspace linkage, DCRs, and dashboards-as-code (where feasible).
  • Coach development and Data/AI teams on platform-aligned deployment patterns and best practices.

Leadership & Delivery Support

  • Lead and advise on CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code best practices.
  • Support timely and high-quality delivery of platform components, resolving blockers and ensuring governance adherence.
  • Mentor other engineers and contribute to capability uplift across the team.

Requirements

  • Strong expertise in Azure DevOps pipeline design, including security and compliance gates.

  • Advanced IaC skills (Bicep), modular design, and release versioning.

  • Experience in security and compliance automation (Azure Policy, vulnerability scanning tools).

  • Proficiency in container build optimization, artifact provenance, and SBOM generation.

  • Monitoring and logging enablement (Application Insights, Log Analytics queries).

  • Deep knowledge of Azure PaaS services:

  • Identity & Security: Entra ID, Key Vault, App Configuration

  • Networking & Delivery: Azure Firewall, Azure Front Door

  • Monitoring: Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics

  • Compute & AI: Container Apps, Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Services, Azure AI Search

  • Data & Storage: Storage Accounts, Cosmos DB, Redis Cache, Container Registry

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