Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit a DevOps Engineer for an initial 3 month contract on a rate of £500/day (Outside IR35). This role will be hybrid working.
Responsibilities:
- Liasing with IT Disaster Recovery Project Team to deliver scripts to automate the creation of Azure environments for remaining in-scope applications.
- Creation of pipelines (Azure DevOps) to enable the automated running of scripts in the building of environments and deploying code to these environments through pipelines.
- Running scripts, including any manual steps, ensuring all dependent environments/applications (APIs, Database connections, permissions, key vaults etc) are correctly connected.
- Ability to troubleshoot issues or errors within DR scripts as required.
- Undertake technical testing and script iteration to ensure environments are built correctly.
- Reviewing the deployed application in the DR site in conjunction with internal team to confirm DR scripts function correctly.
- Completion of individual and concurrent testing of all DR scripts to confirm that the deployed runbook of scripts work as required and that the RTOs for individual and concurrent application recovery.
- Delivery of application script documentation and guidance
- Knowledge transfer with internal developers to ensure thorough knowledge handover throughout contract
Essential Skills:
- Extensive Bicep expertise
- Scripting including AZCLI and PowerShell
- Pipeline configuration experience
- Azure deployment and infrastructure Pipeline build
- Experience of building scripts from existing architecture diagrams
- Practical application and management of networking and security settings
- Azure Cloud experience including applications services, DNS, application gateways, SQL database, logic apps, web application firewall rules
- Experience in GIT
- Troubleshooting using Azure tools e.g. application insights
- Azure DevOps tools expertise
- Azure DevOps knowledge transfer and stakeholder management expertise.
Desirable Skills:
- Previous experience in development of IT disaster recovery scripting for public sector organisations
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.