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Azure DevOps / Platform Engineer - Contract
£525 per day | Outside IR35 | Watford
Initial contract until 18 December 2026, with a view to extending into the new year
Build the platform. Own the infrastructure. Help take it into production.
We’re looking for an experienced Azure DevOps / Platform Engineer to take hands-on ownership of a production Azure platform, covering infrastructure, networking, security, automation and deployment pipelines.
This is an opportunity to shape how the platform is built and operated. You’ll work in a highly automated environment where infrastructure, platform services and application releases are delivered entirely through code.
What you’ll be doing
- Building and operating secure, resilient Azure infrastructure, with AKS at its core.
- Developing reusable Bicep modules and managing infrastructure through code.
- Creating automated build, test and release pipelines using GitHub Enterprise and GitHub Actions.
- Managing environment promotion through Dev, Test, UAT and Production, including infrastructure deployment and drift management.
- Implementing networking, private connectivity, identity, access controls and secrets management.
- Delivering multi-node, multi-zone deployments for high availability.
- Establishing monitoring and application insights to support reliable production operations.
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What you’ll bring
You’ll have experience building and operating a production Azure platform from the ground up, with the confidence to take ownership across infrastructure and delivery.
We’re particularly interested in:
- Expert-level Bicep, including reusable infrastructure modules.
- Strong Azure and Kubernetes / AKS experience.
- Proven CI/CD automation using GitHub Actions.
- Azure networking, including VNets, peering, Private Endpoints, DNS, Load Balancers and Application Gateway.
- Cloud security experience covering Azure Policy, RBAC, Managed Identities, Entra ID and Key Vault.
- Experience designing for high availability and supporting production environments.
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The platform
The wider stack includes Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server, Service Bus, Storage Accounts, Azure Monitor and Application Insights, alongside RedPanda / Kafka and Microsoft Orleans. Experience supporting event-driven architectures would be valuable.
Interested? Send your CV to discuss the contract and the platform you’ll help deliver.
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