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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Only candidates based in UK and eligible to work in UK are allowed