DevOps Engineer

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.

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.

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.