Azure DevOps (SC Cleared)
Our client, a leading global supplier for IT services, requires Azure DevOps – SC Cleared to be based at their client’s office in Wokingham, UK.
This is a hybrid role – you can work remotely in the UK and attend the Wokingham office 3 days per week .
This is a 6+ month temporary contract to start asap
Day rate: Competitive Market rate
Key Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, configure, and support Microsoft Azure infrastructure services in line with agreed architecture, security, and operational standards.
- Develop, maintain, and improve Terraform-based infrastructure-as-code templates, modules, and deployment patterns.
- Support Azure DevOps processes, including source control, pull request workflows, CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and environment promotion.
- Contribute to the delivery and management of Azure landing zones, subscriptions, networking, identity, monitoring, and platform services.
- Implement and maintain secure cloud configurations, including role-based access control, managed identities, private networking, policy enforcement, encryption, logging, and monitoring.
- Work with application and product teams to translate technical requirements into secure and supportable cloud infrastructure solutions.
- Support the automation of infrastructure provisioning, configuration, validation, and lifecycle management using DevOps and infrastructure-as-code methodologies.
- Assist with troubleshooting cloud infrastructure issues across development, test, and production environments.
- Contribute to cloud governance, compliance, cost management, tagging, documentation, and operational reporting activities.
- Participate in technical reviews, change management, incident resolution, problem investigation, and continual service improvement activities.
- Maintain clear technical documentation, deployment guidance, operational runbooks, and knowledge articles to support effective handover and support.
- Experience working in regulated, security-conscious, or operationally critical environments.
- Experience with Azure Policy, Defender for Cloud, Key Vault, Log Analytics, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, and diagnostic settings.
- Experience developing or consuming reusable Terraform modules and cloud platform product catalogues.
- Knowledge of DevSecOps practices, including secure pipeline design, secrets management, code scanning, policy-as-code, and compliance automation.
- Experience with scripting or automation using PowerShell, Bash, Python, Azure CLI, or REST APIs.
- Familiarity with container platforms and cloud-native services, including Azure Kubernetes Service, App Service, Function Apps, or container-based workloads.
- Understanding of IT service management processes, including incident, problem, change, configuration, and release management.
Key Requirements
Essential Skills:
- Practical experience designing, deploying, and supporting Microsoft Azure infrastructure services.
- Experience using Terraform to provision and manage cloud infrastructure through reusable, version-controlled infrastructure-as-code.
- Understanding of DevOps principles, including automation, CI/CD, source control, peer review, environment consistency, and deployment governance.
- Experience working with Azure DevOps, Git repositories, YAML pipelines, service connections, and automated deployment workflows.
- Knowledge of Azure networking concepts, including virtual networks, subnets, network security groups, private endpoints, routing, DNS, and connectivity patterns.
- Understanding of Azure identity and access management, including Microsoft Entra ID, RBAC, managed identities, privileged access, and least-privilege principles.
- Experience applying cloud security controls, monitoring, logging, alerting, backup, resilience, and operational management practices.
- Ability to troubleshoot technical issues across cloud infrastructure, automation pipelines, identity, networking, and platform services.
- Good documentation skills, with the ability to produce clear technical designs, support guides, deployment instructions, and operational procedures.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical, security, operational, and project delivery teams.
- Works collaboratively across teams to deliver secure, reliable, and supportable cloud services.
- Applies a structured and methodical approach to technical delivery, troubleshooting, and documentation.
- Promotes automation, standardisation, repeatability, and continuous improvement.
- Maintains awareness of cloud security, compliance, operational risk, and cost management considerations.
- Takes ownership of assigned activities and communicates progress, risks, and dependencies clearly.
Desirable Skills:
Candidates should hold, or be working towards, relevant Microsoft Azure accreditation. The following certifications would be particularly beneficial:
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate
- HashiCorp Terraform Associate or equivalent Terraform experience
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