DevOps Engineer – 9 Month Contract – Preston/ Remote
About Your Role:
As the DevOps Engineer, your role will include;
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).
About You:
As an experienced DevOps Engineer, your skills and experience will include;
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.
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