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Senior Azure DevOps Engineer (Contract)
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Role: Senior Azure DevOps Engineer (Contract)
Location: Remote (UK)
Length: 3-Month Initial Contract (most likely extended)
Day Rate: £400–£500 per day (Outside IR35)
Key Skills:
- Extensive Azure experience
- Building Azure Landing Zones
- Terraform
- AKS
- GitOps - Argo CD
The Opportunity
We're seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join a major cloud transformation programme, taking ownership of Infrastructure as Code delivery and the implementation of a modern Azure landing zone.
This is a hands-on technical role where you'll lead infrastructure delivery, shape technical design, and work closely with engineering and security teams to build a scalable, secure Azure platform. You'll be responsible for driving the day-to-day technical direction while collaborating with senior stakeholders to deliver a modern cloud-native environment.
What You'll Be Doing
- Lead the design and delivery of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
- Build and implement a secure Azure Landing Zone.
- Design and deploy Azure networking including hub-and-spoke architecture, NSGs, routing, private DNS, Key Vault and Entra ID/RBAC.
- Define and maintain Terraform module and repository standards.
- Drive technical discussions, low-level design (LLD) and infrastructure best practices.
- Prioritise technical backlogs and work closely with engineering teams to deliver key milestones.
- Build Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for Infrastructure as Code.
- Develop multi-tenant Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) environments.
- Support GitOps and service mesh implementations alongside internal specialists.
- Evaluate infrastructure technologies and provide technical recommendations.
- Produce architecture decision records (ADRs) and technical documentation.
- Mentor engineers and promote DevOps and Infrastructure as Code best practices across the team.
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Essential Skills
- Extensive commercial experience as a Senior DevOps Engineer.
- Strong Microsoft Azure infrastructure experience.
- Expert knowledge of Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
- Experience designing Azure Landing Zones.
- Strong understanding of Azure networking, including:
- Hub-and-spoke networking
- Network Security Groups (NSGs)
- Route Tables
- Private DNS
- Azure Key Vault
- Microsoft Entra ID and RBAC
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) experience.
- CI/CD pipeline development using Azure DevOps.
- Experience with Git version control and repository management.
- Strong understanding of cloud security and infrastructure architecture.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
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Desirable Experience
- GitOps using ArgoCD.
- Istio Service Mesh and mTLS.
- Helm.
- Cloudflare.
- Azure Firewall or other enterprise firewall technologies.
- Kubernetes security, network policies and multi-tenant environments.
- Policy-as-Code tools such as Kyverno.
- Container security, image signing and supply chain security.
- Experience working within Agile delivery teams.
What You'll Deliver
During the initial contract you'll help deliver a modern Azure platform by:
- Building a production-ready Azure Landing Zone using Terraform.
- Implementing scalable Azure networking and security architecture.
- Delivering reusable Infrastructure as Code modules and standards.
- Supporting the deployment of a multi-tenant AKS platform.
- Enabling automated infrastructure deployments through Azure DevOps pipelines.
- Working towards an end-to-end cloud platform capable of supporting secure application deployments across development, test and production environments.
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