DevOps Engineer

Devops Engineer

£692.74 per day (Inside IR35)

9 months

1-2 days a week Preston (Flexible)

• Applies deep technical expertise in infrastructure automation, environment provisioning, and deployment pipelines supporting the EDP platform and its AI/ML workloads.
• Designs, maintains, and supports the CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, enabling frequent, reliable deployments to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Manages containerisation using Docker, builds and publishes container images to registries, and ensures secure and efficient AKS cluster deployments.
• Implements infrastructure as code using Terraform, including network, security, and compute resources.
• Supports Airflow as part of platform orchestration.
• Collaborates closely with Data Engineers, MLOps Engineers, and Solution Architects to ensure the infrastructure and pipelines meet performance, scalability, and compliance requirements.
• Follows best practices for platform security, auditing, and cost management, aligning with enterprise Landing Zone (LZ) policies.

Duties

• Design and implement GitLab-based CI/CD pipelines for deploying containerised services to AKS.
• Build and maintain Dockerfiles and container image workflows, pushing to internal container registries.
• Define and manage AKS cluster configurations, ensuring secure and scalable workloads.
• Write and maintain Terraform modules for provisioning cloud infrastructure in line with Azure Landing Zone standards.
• Manage secrets, configuration, and access using Azure Key Vault and Azure AD.
• Ensure connectivity between on-prem services and Azure cloud infrastructure using GreenLink and hybrid networking.
• Collaborate with MLOps and Data Engineers to ensure reproducible, reliable, and auditable infrastructure across environments.
• Monitor system health, logging, and metrics using platform observability tools (e.g. Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana where applicable).

Knowledge:

• Azure Landing Zone principles, vNet design, RBAC, networking, and hybrid connectivity.
• CI/CD tooling, especially GitLab CI/CD.
• Container orchestration (AKS) and Docker best practices.
• Infrastructure as code (Terraform or Bicep).
• Networking principles, including hub/spoke topology and private endpoints.

Skills:

• Writing and debugging CI/CD pipelines.
• Building container images using Docker.
• Managing infrastructure lifecycle in Azure using IaC.
• Collaborating across technical and non-technical teams.
• Understanding and applying secure coding and deployment principles.
• Troubleshooting system and deployment issues at infrastructure level

Qualifications :

Relevant degree or equivalent experience.

SC Clearance required to start.