Role: Azure DevOps Engineer
Location: Remote
Contract: 06 Months +
Rate: £500- 550 per day – Inside IR35 (Depend on Experience)
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A highly experienced Azure DevOps professional responsible for architecting, delivering, and operating complex cloud and digital platforms that support large‑scale public sector transformation. Expert in designing and implementing agile delivery pipelines across infrastructure, application, and platform services, with a strong emphasis on reliability, scalability, security, and compliance. Brings deep expertise in Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes (AKS), and modern automation practices to enable seamless, citizen‑focused digital services. Highly effective in resolving critical operational issues, optimizing platform performance, and fostering cross‑functional collaboration to align engineering outcomes with strategic and policy objectives. Passionate about continuous improvement, innovation, and building resilient, future‑ready platforms that support sustainable long‑term growth.
The Azure DevOps Operations Delivery Lead will be a highly hands‑on engineer with strong experience in cloud, application, and infrastructure operations, and should possess the following experience and characteristics:
• Hands‑on experience delivering, operating, and supporting services across Azure, hybrid, and legacy environments
• Strong practical understanding of industrialised DevOps delivery models, including CI/CD, automation, and repeatable deployment patterns
• Ability to interpret client contracts and SLAs and translate them into operational and technical delivery requirements
• Proven ability to identify, troubleshoot, and remediate SLA breaches, including implementing technical and process‑based mitigations
• Hands‑on responsibility for creating, reviewing, and maintaining operational runbooks, architecture diagrams, and service documentation
• Demonstrated experience communicating technical issues, risks, and solutions to senior stakeholders and clients
• Practical knowledge of ITIL processes (Incident, Problem, Change, Release) applied within modern Azure DevOps environments
• Ability to work directly across engineering, platform, security, and operations teams to present a single operational view of service
• Strong awareness of cost management and chargeback models within Azure‑based services
• Hands‑on experience aligning engineering work with cloud and digital transformation strategies
• Strong technical and business acumen with the ability to make sound engineering decisions
• Clear, confident communicator with strong collaboration and negotiation skills
• Highly self‑motivated, proactive, and comfortable owning technical outcomes end‑to‑end
• Logical and structured problem‑solver with a strong attention to detail
• Ability to think creatively and pragmatically to drive hands‑on fault resolution and service improvements
• Proven ability to operate effectively under production pressure and incident scenarios
• Comfortable working with complex systems, cross‑platform dependencies, and evolving architectures
• A collaborative team player who actively contributes to shared technical ownership
• Embraces and champions continuous improvement, automation, and modern Azure DevOps practices