Senior DevOps Engineer

Parity is delighted to partner with our client, a public sector organisation, who are looking to recruit a Senior DevOps Engineer. Initially 8-week contract with view for extension. This role will require occasional attendance to their regional offices.

As a DevOps Engineer you will support a live, mission-critical platform for a UK public sector organisation. This is a hands-on contract focused on improving reliability, automation and operational maturity within an existing Azure/Kubernetes environment.

You will be part of a small, focused team of technical experts supporting the Product Manager. You will collaborate with other teams including service desks and cloud infrastructure teams to effect privileged changes., * Improve Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines (YAML, approvals, deployments)

• Strengthen monitoring and alerting using Azure Monitor, Application Insights and Log Analytics
• Improve AKS operations including upgrades, patching, autoscaling and resource optimisation
• Enhance infrastructure automation and reduce manual operational tasks
• Review and document secrets management (Azure Key Vault, SOPS)
• Improve operational runbooks and incident response processes
• Review backup and disaster recovery procedures
• Work with service desk teams on privileged access and change management
• Ensure alignment with government security and infrastructure standards

Tech Stack

• Microsoft Azure
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Azure DevOps (YAML pipelines)
• Docker, Azure Container Registry
• Azure Key Vault, SOPS
• Azure Monitor, Application Insights
• PostgreSQL
• Python / Django (application context), If you're a hands-on DevOps Engineer and comfortable working in Azure/Kubernetes environment, we'd love to hear from you.

• Strong hands-on Azure DevOps and Azure Kubernetes (AKS) experience
• Proven CI/CD pipeline design using Azure DevOps YAML
• Solid Kubernetes operational knowledge
• Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform preferred)
• Secrets management experience
• Understanding of SRE principles
• Strong documentation and runbook writing skills
• Experience working in secure or regulated environments

Desirable

• Public sector or government environment experience
• ServiceNow change workflows
• PostgreSQL operations
• Kusto Query Language (KQL)

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