DevOps Engineer

Azure DevOps Engineer

Contract: 6 months Initial

Rate: £500/day Inside IR35

Location: Split between Leeds or London (1-2 days per month onsite)

We’re supporting a major public sector programme looking for an experienced Azure DevOps Engineer to join an established cloud platform team.

You’ll be responsible for managing and improving Azure infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, environment management and platform security, while supporting an ongoing migration and future Azure migration activities.

Key Requirements:

• Strong Azure infrastructure experience, including Azure Front Door, Container Apps, Key Vault, DNS and Storage
• Proven Infrastructure as Code expertise using Bicep (essential) and Terraform
• Experience with GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps pipelines
• Strong understanding of secure deployment practices and environment promotion strategies
• Experience managing containerised workloads in Azure
• Knowledge of identity and authentication solutions including Keycloak and OpenID
• Experience with DNS management, certificate management and Azure networking
• Environment administration across Dev, QA, Demo, Training and Production environments
• Platform hardening, security improvements and remediation of penetration testing findings
• Experience supporting disaster recovery, failover and resilience planning

Project Focus Areas:

• Azure tenant migration activities
• Infrastructure and environment alignment
• Azure migration readiness
• CI/CD optimisation and deployment automation
• Access management and platform administration
• Test and performance environment setup and maintenance

Essential Experience:

• Previous NHS or wider UK Government/Public Sector experience
• Experience working within regulated, security-conscious environments
• Strong stakeholder engagement and ability to operate independently

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• Strong Azure infrastructure experience, including Azure Front Door, Container Apps, Key Vault, DNS and Storage
• Proven Infrastructure as Code expertise using Bicep (essential) and Terraform
• Experience with GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps pipelines
• Strong understanding of secure deployment practices and environment promotion strategies
• Experience managing containerised workloads in Azure
• Knowledge of identity and authentication solutions including Keycloak and OpenID
• Experience with DNS management, certificate management and Azure networking
• Environment administration across Dev, QA, Demo, Training and Production environments
• Platform hardening, security improvements and remediation of penetration testing findings
• Experience supporting disaster recovery, failover and resilience planning

Project Focus Areas:

• Azure tenant migration activities
• Infrastructure and environment alignment
• Azure migration readiness
• CI/CD optimisation and deployment automation
• Access management and platform administration
• Test and performance environment setup and maintenance

Essential Experience:

• Previous NHS or wider UK Government/Public Sector experience
• Experience working within regulated, security-conscious environments
• Strong stakeholder engagement and ability to operate independently